Introduction to Military Ground Mobility

Military Ground Mobility can be used to conduct cross country mobility analysis and enhance operational planning.

Terrain, weather, and time constitute the basic environmental setting for all military operations. These physical conditions, particularly the trafficability of terrain, affect military operations, systems, and personnel and act as constraints on combat options available to a commander. Where can a friendly or enemy unit travel? How quickly can they move from one location to another? Which types of equipment can navigate specific terrain?  

While there are current analog and digital processes for conducting this terrain analysis, many leverage legacy technology, are too time/processing intensive, or are not available to most of the military force. Yet, accessible, and integrated cross country mobility analysis can lead to more informed military decision making.

The Military Ground Mobility solution delivers a set of capabilities that help Defense organizations compile terrain data for an area of responsibility, analyze the trafficability of terrain, and conduct cross county mobility analysis in support of operational planning.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Military Ground Mobility requires the following:

• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Pro 3.3 or later or ArcGIS AllSource 1.1 or later

Note:

To deploy this solution, you must have an ArcGIS organizational account. After deploying the solution, you can download it from your organization and begin using it in ArcGIS Pro.

Information products

Military Ground Mobility includes the following information products:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
Military Ground Mobility Project	A zipped file with an ArcGIS Pro project and supporting files used by geospatial staff to conduct cross country mobility analysis	Professional Plus

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
1.2 (November 2025)	The Military Ground Mobility toolbox has been updated from a Python toolbox (.pyt) file to an ArcGIS toolbox (.atbx) file. The Cross Country Mobility tool has the following changes: The tool now supports mosaic datasets for the input elevation, land cover, and soil raster parameters. Visual Navigation (VISNAV) Soilscape data is supported as soil raster and soil classification inputs. Transportation waterways are supported vector inputs from Ground-Warfighter Geospatial Data Model (GGDM) and Topographic Data Store (TDS) data. Parallel processing was added to spread geoprocessing operations across multiple processes and improve performance.
1.1 (June 2024)	Geoprocessing tools in the Military Ground Mobility Project have been updated to fix minor bugs and adjust output symbology.
1.0 (Nov 2023)	First release of Military Ground Mobility