在信息作战条件下，军事地理信息系统（MGIS）作为作战指挥自动化、数字化战场和现代武器系统的战场地理环境平台备受世界各国的重视。美国投入了大量人力、物力和财力先后研制并使用了地形分析系统等一系列应用系统，目前正着手研制地理影像情报综合管理系统（TPED）和地理影像与地理空间信息系统。我国的MGIS起步较晚，但发展很快，已成功地研制出了第一个具有自主版权的MGIS工具软件。该软件采用层次化体系结构和面向对象的设计方法，具有功能齐全、结构紧密、安全性好等特点。文章在分析国内外MGIS的基础上，着重介绍了军事地理信息系统软件的研制特点，并对军事地理信息系统进一步发展要解决的若干问题进行了探讨。

Under the condition of information campaign, Military Geographic Information System (MGIS) is attached importance to as battlefield geographic environment platform for doing battle command automatization, digitalized battlefield and modern weapon system. U.S.A. has invested a great deal of manpower, material resources and money to successively develop and use a series of application systems such as terrain analysis system. Nowadays, U.S.A. is setting about developing TPED and geospatial information system. China began to develop MGIS later, but developed quickly. Now the MGIS software has been developed, which is the first tool software with independent copyright in China. The software adopts hierarchic architecture and objected-oriented design method. It has complete functions, compact frame, and high security. In this paper, based on the analysis of MGIS both in domestic and overseas area, the author mainly introduced the characteristics of MGIS software development, and discussed some problems to be solved in farther development.