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This article from Medium on TAK for civil use very well. It focuses on Texas DPS which is doing a great job at using TAK at scale.
TAK & The Tactical Situational awareness Revolution Transforming Emergency Response More
The United Kingdom and new NATO member Finland conducted a joint exercise in snowy Vousanka near the Russian border with a total of 3,000 solders. They used TAK as the tactical command nad control collaboration tool.
UK, Finland Exercise Arctic- Interoperability w/TAK More
The Air Force’s 88th Air Base Wing (ABW) released a promo video showing how they use TAK to secure bases. There’s a lot of overlap in what they do with Civilian and First Responder use — Policing, medical and bomb disposal for instance.
AF Security Forces Promo Video More
SkyFi now provides direct integration to commercial high resolution satellite imagery through TAK. Technically they have been doing this for a while.
Current Satellite Imagery From Commercial Sources More
I saw this great GitHub site from https://reddit.com/u/_nKLS has DTED Level 2 (I assume he really means SRTM). It has a bunch of Mega.NZ links and is broken down by country/island/US State. Unzip and place in \atak\dted\
DTED Level 2 For Most of the World More
Here’s an ATAK Plugin development tutorial. (multiple parts) with video from Godfrey Nolan, of RIIS. See the web pages as well as the videos. Part I: Part II:
ATAK Plugin Development Tutorial More
The Griffiss Institute is sponsoring a virtual “Takathon” over the next six weeks focusing on civilian uses of TAK for large scale events. The prize will be $20,000! This Hackathon focuses on what TAK does best: This challenge invites participants to transform the coordination of large-scale public events using advanced technology like ATAK and CivTAK. The challenge focuses on enhancing …
$20,000 CivTAK Hackathon!!! MoreHere’s a great video on how James Bond could leverage TAK for Urban operations by T.RexLabs. Its both humorous and very informative. I do a lot of these already, but I also learned a few things. (T.Rex — Fire escapes are great maps to capture. Also, you should mention TAK Tracker).
How James Bond Would use TAK More
The USDA’s Forest Service posted an article and video showing off their adoption of the Team Awareness Kit for wildland forest fire fighting. From the article: Here’s the video from the article: Team Awareness Kit from USDA Forest Service on Vimeo.
USDA/Forest Service Adopting TAK MoreUpdate (9/20/2023): The KnowML APis have been publicly released. They are in the Google Drive link below. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is planning to conduct an “Ask Me Anything” regarding its currently pre-released Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) topics to try and integrate Machine Learning to the TAK enterprise. (Link to some public documents related to the topics …
Public Documents mentioned in SIBR 23- More