The Urban Tactical Planner is an operational planning tool intended to support military operations on urban terrain. It began as an effort by the U.S. Army's Topographic Engineering Center to generate an operational product for the urban environment in support of the warfighter—a product that would integrate all available data rapidly and effectively. The Urban Tactical Planner is capable of functioning as an aid in decision making when dealing in urban terrain.

The Urban Tactical Planner is a compact, field-ready suite of urban terrain data and geospatial analysis tools intended to be used at levels from CINC to squad. These tools facilitate rapid visualization of key aspects of the urban environment, including buildings, roads, railroads, streams, forests, marshes, water bodies and vertical obstructions.

It provides an overview of the urban terrain in the form of maps, imagery, elevation data, perspective views, hand-held photography, video clips, scanned building plans, tables and text.