The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is implementing a dynamic environment to integrate and share Earth imagery. By Ron Langhelm, HLS GeoCONOPS Project lead, Booz Allen Hamilton (www.boozallen.com), Seattle. The homeland security community comprises a diverse set...
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Budget Woes Could Affect Technology Transfer As a result of the $85 billion broad-brush sequester, which officially kicked in March 1, 2013, NASA’s share of the federal cuts for fiscal year 2013 is nearly $900 million, a budget reduction from $17.8 billion to...
Does U.S. Policy Promote a Leadership Role in the Remote Sensing Satellite Industry?
Does U.S. Policy Promote a Leadership Role in the Remote Sensing Satellite Industry? By J. Christian Kessler, NorthRaven Consulting, Seattle. For decades, the United States led the world in building and operating remote sensing satellite systems. On cue with U.S....
Harnessing Data to Streamline GEOINT Analysis
By Rosemary Heiss, Office of Corporate Communications, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (www.nga.mil), Springfield, Va. More than 90 percent of the stored data in the world has been created in the last two years, according to a recent Financial Times...
Emerging Markets Driving Long-Term Earth Observation Growth
Emerging Markets Driving Long-Term  Earth Observation Growth By Adam Keith, director, Space, Euroconsult (www.euroconsult-ec.com), Montreal. Growth can be seen at each level of the global Earth observation (EO) value chain, from manufacturing, launch and data to...
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Can Geospatial Innovation Save the World? Despite the recent proliferation of brainy electronic gadgets, computers on steroids and robots that can perform better than humans, innovation in its broadest sense could be facing significant headwinds. From roughly the...
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...
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Dealing a Blow to Science What’s next? That’s what scientists around the globe, including many remote sensing professionals focused on Earth science, are wondering after theOct. 22, 2012, manslaughter convictions of six Italian scientists who had the unenviable...
U.S. Environmental Intelligence Efforts Need Leadership
U.S. Environmental Intelligence  Efforts Need Leadership By Nancy Colleton, president, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (http://strategies.org), Arlington, Va. There’s nothing like a 70-mph wind gust to get your attention. It seems like only...