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 ArcGIS 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 apps:

  • ArcGIS Online
  • ArcGIS Pro 3.1 or later (Standard, or Advanced) or ArcGIS AllSource 1.1 or later
    • ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension

Information products

Military Ground Mobility includes the following information products:

ItemDescriptionMinimum 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

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When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get an ArcGIS 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 ArcGIS solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

VersionDescription
1.0 (Nov 2023)
  • First release of Military Ground Mobility