Planners use maps to develop and communicate concepts, plans, and designs. Maps support the military decision making process and inform the commander and staff of enemy intentions and friendly activities. Planners analyze information about the weather, enemy, and terrain in order to evaluate the effectiveness of plans or feasibility of a specific operation. We provide map templates and layer packages to support these activities.
Military Overlay layer package
The Military Overlay layer package provides an organizational framework within which you can create a wide variety of military features. Its component sections are:
- Neutral Operations
- Unknown Operations
- Friendly Operations
- Hostile Operations
- Stability Operations
- METOC
- Emergency Management
These templates may be used to help produce a decision support overlay. The decision support overlay is a military planning product with key decision points, timelines associated with the movement of forces and the flow of the operation, and other key information required to execute a specific friendly course of action.
The planning templates assists in the development of friendly and enemy course of action sketches, conducting course of action comparison, and identifying TAIs and NAIs. The final product is the decision support overlay that can be shared with other organizations.
Patrol Planning template
The Patrol Planning template is designed to help you learn how to analyze maps and data, particularly maps with patrol track history in them, so that you can create efficient and unpredictable patrol routes. Sample patrol tracks are provided for this template and its accompanying exercise. All the sample data and tools you'll need to create patrol tracks in a sample area of interest are provided for you in the template. You can look at the geoprocessing model provided in the template to quickly gain an understanding of the tools, parameters, inputs, and outputs being used. -Coming soon