After USGIF Ponders Lack of Coverage of GEOINT, Pres Quoted in Boston Globe
A few weeks back the world was abuzz about how UCLA professors had used remote sensing and geospatial tools to predict where Osama Bin Laden may be hiding. (APB coverage) Later that week a discussion on GotGeoint? the blog of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation pondered why there was so little coverage of GEOINT in the traditional media.
Today, Keith Masback, USGIF president, got some mainstream attention in a story on the topic. (I’m not sure why this is turning up in the Globe so far after the story broke.)
Specialists in high-tech spying say the UCLA study deserves attention.
“This is serious research that should be considered by the US military and intelligence,” said Keith Masback, head of the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, an organization of academics, business representatives, and military officials interested in satellite surveillance.
