Modeling the Future of GEOINT

By Laura Lundin, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (www.nga.mil), Office of Geospatial Intelligence Management, Springfield, Va.   For many organizations, shrinking budgets and constrained resources mean slashing existing programs and limiting...

Director Long Apprises Strides Toward Tomorrow's NGA Today

By Ken White, Office of Corporate Communications, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (www.nga.mil), Bethesda, Md. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Letitia A. Long outlined the agency’s three-way transformation of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT)...

Making Geospatial Intelligence More Accessible

By George Demmy , chief technical officer and co-founder, TerraGo Technologies (www.terragotech.com), Atlanta.   As the defense and intelligence communities convene for this year’s GEOINT Symposium, the geospatial industry, which occupies an increasingly...

Appreciating Modern Scene Visualization and 3-D Analysis

By Jay D. Krasnow, Office of Integrated Analytic Services, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (www.nga.mil), Springfield, Va. From Osama bin Laden’s fortress to the damage caused by the tsunami at Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, scene visualization...

Ground Truth: Empowering the Warfighter with GEOINT

By Army Capt. Edward Major, formerly executive officer to the director of military support staff, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (www.nga.mil), Bethesda, Md. Simply put, the “where” is what ties everything together. Geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) helps...

GEOINT: A System-of-Systems Approach

By Michael Hales, technical executive, International Group, Office of International Affairs and Policy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Bethesda, Md.   Imagine an architecture where 87 countries and 61 organizations pulled their Earth-observing...

Defining a Military Strategy for the New Space Environment

By William J. Lynn, III, U.S. deputy secretary of Defense, Washington, D.C. As disaster struck Japan and revolution swept the Middle East, Americans again watched global events unfold in real time through a network of satellites in space that has revolutionized both...

Persistics: A Revoltion in Motion Imagery Processing

By Roger Gant, a contract employee supporting the InnoVision communication team for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Bethesda, Md.   As technology continues to steadily multiply the amount of information available from current and future...

Technology Will Drive Tomorrow’s Homeland Security

By André Doumitt, CEO of Geosemble Technologies (http://www.geosemble.com/), El Segundo, Calif. The Department of Homeland Security's  all-encompassing mission is "to prevent and deter terrorist attacks,    protect against and respond to threats and hazards to...

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