Ground Guidance Desktop

Off-road navigation software

Datasheet: Ground Guidance Desktop
Learn how Ground Guidance Desktop integrates with Falcon View to assist soldiers plan fast and concealed routes.
Datasheet: Ground Guidance Handheld
Discover how Ground Guidance Handheld integrates with a Microsoft Windows Compact Edition (CE) devices to provide guidance along an off-road route.
Presentation: Ground Guidance
Learn how Ground Guidance operates in the field and improves upon existing routing systems such as the United States Army's Force XXI Battle Command - Brigade and Below (FBCB2) and Movement Tracking System (MTS).
User Manual: Ground Guidance
Learn how to plan fast and concealed routes using Ground Guidance Desktop and Ground Guidance Handheld.
Testimonial: Future Tactical Systems
Review the United States Army's assertion that Ground Guidance has "high potential military utility in the near-term."
Patent: Routing Soldiers Around Enemy Attacks and Battlefield Obstructions
Read how Ground Guidance routes soldiers around combat obstacles.
Patent Application: Generating and Presenting Off-Road Travel Routes
Assess Ground Guidance's techniques for analyzing land cover and elevation data and generating off-road routes.

Ground Guidance Desktop is patented software that plans a fast or concealed route through off-road terrain. Ground Guidance Desktop overlays the resulting route on an aerial photo or topographic map.

Ground Guidance Desktop uses three databases - elevation data, land cover, and aerial imagery - to generate off-road routes. The patented algorithms then determine the fastest or stealthiest route through the terrain and overlay the route on the appropriate imagery.

Ground Guidance Desktop runs on any Microsoft Windows platform with a Global Position System (GPS) receiver.

Ground Guidance Desktop can operate as a standalone application or Falcon View plug in.

Here are instructions for using common Ground Guidance Desktop features:

Panning and Zooming. Click the arrow buttons to pan. Click the "In" and "Out" buttons to zoom.
Planning Routes. Click a start and end point on the map.
Editing Routes. Right-click a waypoint and choose "Delete" or click a route and drag to redraw it.
Determining Visibility. Click the "Visibility" button and the map or choose "Cost: Exposure" from the "Map" menu.
Cordoning Areas. Click the "Cordon" button and then click and drag to draw a cordon.
Estimating Duration. Right-click a route and choose "Properties".
Changing Options. Right-click a route and choose "Properties" to set its type to concealed, fastest, or straight.

Ground Guidance Desktop

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