Kerry Robinson

Gary Sheppard

Gary Scoffield

New Military Symbology

Capabilities For Your Apps

Presenters

Kerry RobinsonProduct Owner

krobinson@esri.com

Gary SheppardSr. Software Development Engineer

gsheppard@esri.com

Agenda

Military Symbology Background

Dictionary Symbology Overview

Developer Examples

Custom Dictionaries

Road Ahead and Questions

Web GIS Transforms Your Architecture and WorkflowsIntegrating Organizations and People

Enabling Sharing, Collaboration, and Decisive Action

Operational

Environment

Planning Command Field OperationsIntelligence

Symbol breakdown

Friendly

Infantry

Airborne

Symbol breakdown

Friendly

Infantry

Airborne

SIDC Evolution – Versions A-C

S F G P U C I A

SIDC Evolution – Version D

1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0

Frame & Frame Amplification

Frame Contents

1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Additional Information

Anatomy of a Symbol

G*GPGAA---

25150200

G*GPGPPL--

25131100

G*GPGLP---

25140300

Military Symbology Workflows

• Analyst creating products

- Reports & Observations

- Import data/spreadsheets from other systems

- Manual input

• Planner creating an Operational Plan

- Sketching control measures & OOB

- Export to other systems

• Watch Officer monitoring Common Operational Picture

- Visualizing the current situation

- (near) Real-time feed of information from other systems

Who uses military symbology?

ArcGIS must support all patterns of use

Dictionary SymbologyConnects your data to a Dictionary

Optimized solution for complex symbology

Data

Rule EngineConfiguration

PropertiesLook-up Table

Dictionary

Military Symbol Editor

• Add-in for ArcGIS Pro

• Quickly and easily search, modify attributes, and preview

multilayer military symbols using ArcGIS Pro

• Add created symbols to the map through clicking/drawing or

by typing in coordinates

• Save frequently used symbols to Favorites and share these

with others

How to easily build Military Symbols for use in ArcGIS Pro

A WYSIWYG way to create a palette of frequently-used military symbols, with no knowledge of Symbol ID Codes

Kerry

Dictionary Renderer

in ArcGIS Pro

Kerry

Dictionary Styles

Gary

Developer

Examples

Kerry

Customizing Styles

Section Subhead

Resources

ArcGIS Pro – Dictionary Symbology guide doc

• https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/mapping/layer-properties/dictionary-renderer.htm

Military Tools for ArcGIS

• https://solutions.arcgis.com/defense/help/military-tools/

Includes Military Symbol Editor

Military Symbology StylesLatest styles for use in ArcGIS Runtime & JavaScript APIs

https://solutions.arcgis.com/defense/help/military-symbology-styles/

Create Custom Dictionary Styles for ArcGIS

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping/create-custom-dictionary-

styles-for-arcgis/

Blog post

Dictionary Renderer Toolkit

https://github.com/Esri/dictionary-renderer-toolkit

More detail on how to create custom dictionary styles for use with the Dictionary Renderer

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