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Friday, October 23. 2009

Podcast: Press Conference of Vice Admiral Robert Murrett at the #GEOINT Symposium 2009

This podcast is a recording of a press conference by Vice Admiral Robert Murrett, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) at the GEOINT Symposium 2009 on October 21, 2009 in San Antonio. Murrett discusses the new NGA charter, the situation with aiding and supporting both domestic and military missions and other issues related to the agency's work.

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Posted by Joe Francica in Remote Sensing, Location Intelligence, Special Topics Podcast, GEOINT 09 at 14:16 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

First South African Pub/Private GIS Conference?

I have to take ITWeb at its word when it claims that its first Spatially-enabled Information Services Conference is "the first of its kind to bring together both the private and public sector to discuss the challenges of and opportunities for incorporating geospatial data into systems and services." It's Feb 2010 in Bryanston.

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Conferences at 07:11 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Thursday, October 22. 2009

#GEOINT Coverage Roundup II (Non-Directions Media)

Note: This post does not include coverage by Directions Media in All Points Blog or Directions Magazine.

U.S. spy chief calls for more coordination says MySanAntonio.com: "Speaking in San Antonio at a national intelligence symposium, retired Navy Adm. Dennis C. Blair, director of national intelligence since January, said a more effective national security strategy includes all 16 members of the intelligence community on the same page."

DoD Buzz notes that "Open Source Intel Use Soars." That refers to open source intel, not software. "And the use of open source information is soaring, according to a panel here in San Antonio at the annual Geoint conference. Brian Magana, geospatial analysis branch chief at the Defense Intelligence Agency, said that his consumption of open source data for one area of analysis he was following rocketed upwards 600 percent."

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in GEOINT 09 at 07:48 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

FOSS4G Coverage II

Mateusz Loskot offers a video of Paul Ramsey's keynote offers a video of Paul Ramsey's keynote.

Mark From the Inside Looking In raves: the video "has been all the talk on Twitter. If you haven't seen it yet, you should do so."

Iki Maska rounds up some presentations on his blog: "A somewhat ordinary presentation by Ingres." "Raul Vera from Google on a subtle but profound shift in spatial paradigm, predicting that in mid 2011 the majority of location searches will be from mobile devices and this requires a different point of thought ("I'm lost!" is actually a very rare use case)."

The Map Guy(de) talks about the new FDO Toolbox.

Kate Lundy, Senator represented the Australian Capital Territory, offers the full text of her presentation at the conference.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, Conferences at 07:24 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Wednesday, October 21. 2009

Liquid Galaxy: An Immersive, Multi-screen Version of Google Earth

If you had six, 42" flat screen monitors what would you do? If you are unsure, you may want to configure something like Liquid Galaxy, Google's immersive environment that takes Google Earth from impressive website application to simulation environment. Stepping in side a small booth at the GEOINT Symposium, the user is surrounded by flat screens, and a small podium mounted with the SpaceNavigator joystick from 3DConnexion. Yes, it's very cool, and everyone should have one for their game room (see below and click for larger image).

Posted by Joe Francica in Remote Sensing, Google Earth, GEOINT 09 at 21:04 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Virtual Worlds Offer #GEOINT a Different Geographic Perspective

Though the media hype has died down from virtual world’s like Second Life, the interest and research for applications in the defense and intelligence community have exploded. Tami Griffith, Science and Technology Manager for the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command has launched a contest called the Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge. The objective is to encourage the development of training and analysis solutions on a virtual world platform. For the Army, virtual worlds present very low cost simulation tools. Griffith said that, “the premise is that we have not begun to explore all of the possibilities of using virtual worlds.” A Q&A with Griffith appears on the Second Life blog and you can view more on YouTube (See below).

Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, a military and intelligence consultant to such organizations as NGA, NRO, the Los Angeles Police Department, Ball Aerospace, and many others, warned that the blending of events in the real world and virtual reality is the next generation of virtual worlds. The next generation gets a little scary where events in the virtual world lead to “real world” deaths. Virtual Troops may engage in combat situations in cyberspace but the results may be real world destruction. “The technology now is very sophisticated,” said Baxter.

Posted by Joe Francica in GEOINT 09 at 16:46 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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