ATAK-CIV (Civil Use)

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About this app

The Tactical Assault Kit is DoD nomenclature for the Team Awareness Kit (TAK) application: a mission planning, geospatial, Full Motion Video (FMV), and system administrator tool that reduces the operational footprint from a tactical laptop, to a commercial mobile device. The geospatial engine and communications component support Department of Defense (DoD) and commercial sector standards. Extensibility of the core platform is supported by the Software Development Kit (https://tak.gov), which enables any partner to develop mission-specific capability or contribute to the advancement of the baseline. Data can be pre-loaded into ATAK or downloaded from the network when available.

Civil use capabilities of ATAK-CIV include:
• Online and offline mapping (most standard formats), with a blazing fast rendering engine
• Support for very high-resolution imagery (sub 1 cm resolution)
• Collaborative mapping, including points, drawings, locations of interest
• Extensive and customizable set of Icons
• Overlay Manager which allows the Import and display of KML, KMZ, GPX overlays, maps and imagery including both online and offline sources with adjustable transparency. These overlays can be treated as Gridded Refrence Gaphics.
• Location marking, sharing, history
• Chat, file sharing, photo sharing, video sharing, streaming
• Navigation-walking/hiking, driving, also useful flying and air-ground coordination
• Elevation Tools, heat maps, computed contour maps, viewsheds, routes w/DTED, SRTM, including dynamic profiling
• Hashtags and Sticky tags
• Center on Self, Center on other objects (e.g. another person in the network)
• Range, bearing, and other measurement tools
• Network-aware geofences with triggers
• "Bloodhound" destination tracking, including on moving objects
• Team Emergency Beacons
• Customizable Toolbar
• Radio controls and Integration
• Photo to map capability (aka Rubber Sheeting)
• Casualty evacuation tool
• Icon support for a wide variety of First Responder missions with further extensible Icons
• 3D perspective and ability to display 3D geospatial models
• Useful for First Responders, Hunting, fishing, ornithology, wildlife site survey
• ATAK-CIV is open source: https://github.com/deptofdefense/AndroidTacticalAssaultKit-CIV

System Requirements

Operating System: ATAK requires Android 5.0 (API 21) or later.

Hardware: ATAK does not require specific hardware and should run on any Android device that supports the other System Requirements.

Graphics: ATAK requires a graphics processor that supports GLES 3.0.

Storage, Memory and Processor: no specific requirements for storage, memory or processor- performance of the application will depend on the configuration.

Recommended for optimal experience: Samsung S9 equivalent hardware or newer is used and for a tablet style device Samsung S2 equivalent or newer.

TAK CORE

TAK CORE includes functionality that is common to all TAK applications and focuses on capabilities that can live in a cross-platform layer (simplifying the development and management of the library).

TAK CORE Features:

Networking – All ATAK applications use a variety of network mediums to send situational awareness data, chat messages, and other file types associated with mission planning activities. The networking component of TAK CORE handles creating the appropriate message at the application level (Cursor-on-Target), manages receiving and dispatching messages, and brokers communication with the TAK Server product.

Geospatial Data Processing – The TAK applications ingest geospatial imagery and overlay products for use on the moving map display.

Geospatial Data Visualization – A set of rendering utility and helper functions exist in TAK CORE to standardize the way geospatial imagery and overlays are rendered to the screen.

Geospatial Data Management – A data management capability is included in the TAK CORE to ensure that the data managed by TAK is relevant and accurate for the end user.

Ratings and reviews

This could be great if your whole group is coders. I'm definitely not setting this up for everyone else & being the group troubleshooter. Maybe w/ enough effort the map settings could be tweaked enough to be as accurate as Google Earth layers are, but it's not even close from the time I've spent so far. In Google Earth going to the locations we usually travel, it's like being there & very accurate. In this app the area is barely recognizable w/ lots of artifacts. You'll need lots of spare time.

An excellent tool for coordinating public safety agencies during planned events or emergencies. You have to do some work to tap the full potential of the product. For example, gathering links for better maps or importing Digital Terrain Elevation Data. However, once you do, it's gold. Fair warning, though... it will crush your battery. Be prepared.

This is the best mapping app in the world, the base maps that are at your disposal allow for ridiculous amounts of freedom and the best way I can describe it is "map sandbox" The tools at your disposal are all useful in all the ways they should be. However, despite giving you guys 5 stars, I'd like to give you some feedback about one of the maps, specifically the NRL DRG map. Now, I love this map, however brown bars appear that cover dozens of kilometers that dont load no matter what I do.