Abstract
Within the Department of Defense, the Defense Intelligence Agency is responsible for managing, and budgeting for, all mapping, charting and geodetic programmes within the Army, Navy and Air Force. One of the programmes involved is the automation of the cartographic data handling system, which includes millions of maps, photography, nautical and aeronautical charts, publications, gravity and magnetic data, bathymetry and hydrography data, etc. DIA is insuring that this data handling system can be used interchangeably by the military departments, federal agencies and other interested organizations by standardizing equipments,, formats and operating procedures. This commonality will result in many benefits during the accession, data processing and output phases in geography, cartography, hydrography and other earth sciences. In addition, this system is compatible with the current planning for an improved national network of information systems in science and technology. It can also be used in universities to support educational programmes; by planning groups to analyse and design natural resource systems, such as ecology; or any other agency interested in relating geography to natural and human resources.
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