GEOINFORMATION SUPPORT FOR AUTOMATED TEST PLANNING SUBSYSTEM

The process of testing weapons and military equipment involves numerous manual labor-intensive operations. Such operations can be simplified by fully or partially automating the test planning stages, conducting them directly, and processing the test results. Feature of testing weapons and military equipment is the large amount of data that somehow has a spatial location. One of the modern tools of cartographic representation, processing and analysis of statistical data arrays that have spatial localization, geospatial modeling and situation forecasting is the technology of geoinformation systems. The article substantiates the feasibility of using geoinformation systems as part of the weapons testing system and military equipment. The functional scheme of integration of the geoinformation component into the structure of the test automation subsystem is presented for geoinformation support of the processes of testing planning and processing of measurement results. An approach to the creation of geoinformation models of test sites is proposed, based on the use of methods of remote sensing of land and open Web-GIS resources. The list of functional modules of spatial data processing and analysis, which can be applied to the tasks of testing, is distributed in the geoinformation toolkit. Examples of typical spatial tasks that can be performed during test planning, direct testing, processing, and analysis of measurement results, if such data are spatially linked. The use of geoinformation technology in the test system will provide an arsenal of qualitatively new methods of digital cartography, such as the technology of automated preparation of cartographic information in the accepted cartographic projections and symbols, mass processing of arrays of measured data, a wide toolkit of mathematical and cartographic methods and functions, features and functions own methods, algorithms and methods of statistical information processing, create and use object-oriented geoinformation data models, operate with a set of visualization tools for the best presentation of research and simulation results.