Joint Mapping Tool Kit (JMTK)

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) developed the Joint Mapping Tool Kit (JMTK) to satisfy the DOD services' common Mapping, Charting, Geodesy, and Imagery (MCG&I) requirements. JMTK is a collection of Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) that support the military services' MCG&I functionality. Specifically, these APIs enable mission applications to interface with the Common Operating Environment (COE) MCG&I component. The JMTK Visualization software, managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), provides the capability to display map background products and to render foreground information. Capabilities within JMTK are:

• The Spatial Data Base Module (JMS) provides capabilities to import, manage, query, retrieve, and export standard NGA data products and user or mission application created data sets.
• The Analysis Module (JMA) is a collection of terrain analysis algorithms that are applied to geospatial information retrieved from the Spatial Data Base Module.
• The Visualization Module (JMV) is designed to render NGA standard products and results obtained from the Analysis Module on standard workstation platforms.
• The Utilities Module (JMU) is a library of platform independent capabilities to perform fundamental geodetic computations such as unit of measure conversions, datum transformation, and coordinate conversions.