International Collaborative Military Mapping Programs’ Implementation and Development Opportunities in Hungary
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
The copyright to this article is transferred to the University of Public Service Budapest, Hungary (for U.S. government employees: to the extent transferable) effective if and when the article is accepted for publication. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the article, including reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, microform, electronic form (offline, online) or any other reproductions of similar nature.
The author warrants that this contribution is original and that he/she has full power to make this grant. The author signs for and accepts responsibility for releasing this material on behalf of any and all co-authors.
An author may make an article published by University of Public Service available on a personal home page provided the source of the published article is cited and University of Public Service is mentioned as copyright holder
Abstract
The two most important military mapping projects in Hungary are the Multinational Geospatial Co–production Program (MGCP) and the SAAB JAS 39 Gripen aircraft support, with digital mapping system. 29 countries joined the largest mapping program, called the MGCP to create up– to–date, 50k scale, high density 1°x1° cells for a geospatial database to cover the majority of the global landmass. Hungary has been a participant since December 2005, and contracted 28+1 data cells for completion by 2013. Under the terms of the Gripen lease–purchase agreement, Hungary has to provide basic data for the aircraft on–board system which requires continuous database maintenance for both surface and obstacle databases. Another task is to maintain the Digital Map Generating System (DMGS).