The DGIF provides the foundation for many other artifacts that DGIWG develops and governs such a coherent set of Geospatial Data Product Specifications and Geospatial Data Exchange Schemas.
Within the area of Defence, the Multinational Co-Production Program (MGCP), the International Program for Human Geography (IPHG) and NACCP have adopted DGIF for the production and provision of validated geospatial vectordata. DGIF has been adopted by NATO and FMN by means of STANAG2592 NGIF, STANAG5524 NISP and the MC296 Geospatial Policy.
Procurement processes, system development and configuration management activities in the areas of C2, ISR, Navigation, Mission Planning, Simulation, Logistics, Transmissions, etc. would benefit of taking into account the latest baseline of DGIF or profiles thereof.
As the demand for higher resolutions of geospatial vector data expands, also DGIF is a rapidly evolving standard. Everyone may propose requirements for improvement through their national DGIWG authoritative national representatives (ANR).
Table of Contents
DGIF Overview
This document dives deeper into the crucial role that the Defense Geospatial Information Framework (DGIF) fulfills with respect to capability development and geospatial interoperability across systems and networks in the military domain and the availability of DGIF certified vector data.
| DGIWG # | Document Title (Click to Download) | Edition | Edition Date |
| 200 | Defence Geospatial Information Framework (DGIF) – Overview | 3.0.0 | 2024-09-01 |
Latest DGIF baseline (based upon DGIF 3.0):
| DGIWG # | Offline Models (Click to Download) | File Type | Baseline |
| 210 | DGIF Baseline 2022-3.qea | Enterprise Architect v16 | 2024-1 |
| 211 | DGIF_2024_3_Workbook.xlsx | Excel | 2024-1 |
| 212 | DGIF Baseline 2022-3.eapx | Enterprise Architect (Legacy) | 2024-1 |
DGIM, DGFCD, and DGRWI
The DGIWG specifications 205, 206 and 207 define the modelling principles and “metamodel” upon which the DGIF is based. The latest edition of DGIF is the edition 3.0 which comprises the following components:
Defence Geospatial Information Model (DGIM)
• describes the purpose and structure of the DGIM and characteristics of DGIM data.
• contextualises the DGIM within the DGIF.
Defence Geospatial Feature Concept Dictionary (DGFCD)
• provides the definitions for the geospatial phenomena in the DGIM
• describes the structure to record geospatial phenomena in the DGFCD
Defence Geospatial Real World Object Index (DGRWI)
• provides an entry point into the model for the layman by offering traceability from the commonly used names of Real World Phenomena to their representations in the DGIM
• describes the structure to record Real World Objects in the DGRWI
| DGIWG # | Document Title | Edition | Date |
| 205 | Defence Geospatial Information Model (DGIM) | 3.0 | 2024-09-01 |
| 206 | Defence Geospatial Feature Concept Dictionary (DGFCD) | 3.0 | 2024-09-01 |
| 207 | Defence Geospatial Real World Object Index (DGRWI) | 3.0 | 2024-09-01 |
Previous DGIF baseline (based upon DGIF 3.0):
| DGIWG # | Filename of Baseline (Click to Download) | File Type | Baseline |
| 210 | DGIF_2024-2.qea | Enterprise Architect v16 | 2024-2 |
| 211 | DGIF_2024_2_Workbook.xlsx | Excel | 2024-2 |
| 212 | DGIF 2024-2.eapx | Enterprise Architect (Legacy) | 2024-2 |
| 210 | DGIF_2024-1.qea | Enterprise Architect v16 | 2024-1 |
| 211 | DGIF_2024_1_Workbook.xlsx | Excel | 2024-1 |
| 212 | DGIF 2024-1.eapx | Enterprise Architect (Legacy) | 2024-1 |
Supplemental Resources
The DGIWG maintains a few lists, also called “mapping tables, which define the semantical relationship between DGIF and the vocabulary or data models in other domains or the previous versions of DGIF. These mapping tables will assure to the highest degree possible the interoperability between DGIF and other datasets.
| DGIWG # | Workbooks (Click to Download) | File Type | Edition Date |
| x | EGM to DGIF BL2024-1 | MS Excel | 2022-3 |
| x | ERM to DGIF BL2024-1 | MS Excel | 2022-3 |
| x | OSM to DGIF BL2024-1 | MS Excel | 2022-3 |
| x | DVOF to DGIF BL2024-1 | MS Excel | 2022-3 |
EGM and ERM are datasets provided by the EuroGeographics organization (see https://eurogeographics.org/) . More information concerning Open Street Map (OSM) data can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=6/51.330/10.453. DVOF datasets contain height objects that are regarded as Vertical Obstructions from the viewpoint of aeronautical safety of navigation and can be provided by the US NGA organization.
Mapping tables that may exist between national vectordatabases and DGIF are to be requested at the national mapping agencies.
The order of precedence by which national military mapping agencies and NATO apply digital geospatial foundation datasets in their production flows and maintenance of globally covering map series, digital vector data products and web services is roughly as follows:
- national vector data sets
- vector data sets from military co-production programs (MGCP, IPHG, AML)
- other available datasets (which often requires conversion in order to be compliant with DGIF and other military geospatial standards)
Defence Geospatial Encoding Specification
This specification provides guidance and rules on how to derive GML application schemas from the Defence Geospatial Information Model.
- GML is based upon XML
- This DGIWG specification is based upon ISO 19136 Geography Markup Language (GML), ISO 19107 Spatial schema and specific DGIWG conventions
Redactional improvements and changes from DGIF 2.0 to DGIF 3.0
- The filename “DGIM_2024_2_Workbook.xlsx” has been renamed into “DGIF_2024_2_Workbook.xlsx”.
- The DGIWG document identifier “205” that was applied to issued baseline artifacts of DGIF until baseline 2023-3 has been replaced by “210, “211”, “212” for DGIF_2024-1.qea, DGIF_2024-1_Workbook.xlsx respectively DGIF 2024-1.eapx and following baselines.
- To be determined
Last page update: 01-09-2024
DGIF 2.0 baselines
Supplemental Resources to DGIF 2.0, baseline 2016-1
| DGIWG # | Mapping table (Click to Download) | File Type | Edition Date |
| X | NGIF to DGIF 2.0 | MS Excel | 2016-3 |
| X | DFDD to DGIF 2.0 | MS Excel | 2016-3 |
| X | MGCP TRD 4 to DGIF 2.0 | MS Excel | 2016-3 |
| X | OSM to DGIF 2.0 | MS Excel | 2016-3 |
| X | DVOF to DGIF 2.0 | MS Excel | 2016-3 |
Deprecated
| DGIWG # | Document Title (Click to Download) | Edition | Edition Date |
| 201 | NATO Geospatial Information Model (NGIM) | 1.0.0 | 2013-10-18 |
| 201 | NATO Geospatial Information Model (NGIM) – Normative Content | 1.0.0 | 2013-10-18 |
| 202 | NATO Geospatial Entity Catalogue (NGEC) | 1.0.0 | 2013-10-18 |
| 202 | NATO Geospatial Entity Catalogue (NGEC) – Normative Content | 1.0.0 | 2013-10-18 |