ADVANCED GEOSPATIAL MGMT FOR INFO INTEGRATION AND DISSEMINATION (AGMIID) The U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (USATEC) will host an Industry/Academia briefing concerning the Advanced Geospatial Management for Information Integration and Dissemination (AGMIID) program. USATEC has previously solicited proposals to support this program under Topic 3 of TEC BAA 98-01. TEC will hold the briefing at the Humphrey's Engineer Center, Casey Building, Room 140A on 16 December, beginning at 0800. The Humphrey's Engineer Center is located at 7701 Telegraph Road, approximately 7 miles south of Alexandria, VA. A second briefing may be held at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA, or at an alternate location, if there is sufficient interest. Contact Rick Joy on 703-428-7424 for further information. Additional details of the AGMIID program goals follow. Advanced tools are needed to allow geographic data users, and producers, to capitalize on existing digital spatial information stored in diverse scales and representations. Most geographic applications depend upon data sets which have been collected in accordance with specific formats, scales, accuracies, and attribution schemas. This greatly limits interoperability since these are not shared by all communities. This presents problems, for example, to the state planner who wishes to augment his regional database with infrastructure information found in a larger-scale city database, to the military engineer who identifies potential "choke points" (such as bridges) from a relatively small-scale database and needs to obtain more detailed information on the same features from a more detailed, larger-scale database, and to any data producer who wishes to make efficient use of multiple data sources. AGMIID is directed towards developing new techniques for integrating dissimilar spatial data, for linking or identifying common features, and for managing multiple coverages over a given area. TEC envisions developing prototype software to link point, line and complex aerial feature data and to manage, store, access, and retrieve this information. TEC also plans to work with industry partners to develop appropriate interface standards.

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