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This project wields data from the Global Human Settlement Layer, which uses “satellite imagery, census data, and volunteered geographic information” to create population density maps. In parts of the world where census data is unreliable (e.g., India, China), population density was visibly noisy on the maps.
Mar 13, 2011 · The Human Terrain System (HTS) is a proof-of-concept program run by the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). The goal of HTS is to provide knowledge of the local population (the human terrain) to Army/military commanders to: • Assist them in understanding the people within their area of operations (AO).
Oct 15, 2015 · The recently developed and implemented Human Terrain System (HTS) Project was designed to play an important role in developing cultural knowledge for the US military and is critical to mission ...
May 14, 2010 · Human Terrain System. 122 pages. September 2008. Human Terrain Teams (HTTs) are five- to nine-person teams deployed by the Human Terrain System (HTS) to support field commanders by filling their cultural knowledge gap in the current operating environment and providing cultural interpretations of events occurring within their area of operations.
Feb 8, 2017 · The most expensive social science program in history—the US Army’s human terrain system (HTS)—has quietly come to an end. During its eight years of existence, the controversial program that can be seen as the paradigmatic institutional expression of counterinsurgency’s ‘local turn’ cost US tax payers more than $725 million.
Nov 1, 2015 · The vastness of a BCT’s area of responsibility led to teams being split up. More team members with the right skills were required. In addition to growing the number of HTTs, Human Terrain Analysis Teams (HTATs) were added to synchronize research and facilitate integration of social science research and analysis products at division level.
Human terrain is often contrasted with geophysical ter-rain – a familiar concept for senior officers trained for conventional warfare against the Soviets. It implies that 21st-century warriors will fight ‘population-centric’ wars (Kilcullen 2007); therefore, the key to successful warfare is the control of people.
