As organizations race to make use of the deluge of IoT sensor data in order to become more effective and responsive, visualizing and analyzing this data in a geospatial context, such as a Common Operating Picture (COP), can provides great benefit in terms of organizing the information and understanding underlying trends. However, the integration of IoT data with a geospatial context can present significant challenges. In this session, attendee...

Geospatial intelligence is everywhere and essential to decision-making in almost everything we do. In the 15+ years since its formal creation, it has continually matured, evolved, and expanded well beyond the national security sector, and well beyond government. Almost every vertical in our global economy is being disrupted by geospatial intelligence-related technologies and services. This thriving geospatial intelligence ecosystem has enabled...

GEOConnect Series Main Stage Please join us as we examine how the GEOINT community can come together to build a modern software engineering culture within NGA. Software is core to enabling NGA’s mission and NGA is improving its development practices to enable teams to rapidly build, test, and deploy capabilities to the enterprise. From a robust development platform, to continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes, to shar...

The open source Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack) is the tool of choice for teams building scalable, real-time solutions for system and app monitoring, cybersecurity, search, and (of course) GEOINT analysis. This training will familiarize students with the basics of the stack, update them on recently introduced features, and provide a step-by-step demonstration of a basic end-to-end data collection and analysis pipeline that can be scaled up...

This session will explore how Tableau can solve a wide variety of map-related data questions. While investigating various use cases, we will uncover how Tableau fundamentally works with data to create maps. During the hour participants will see how Tableau reads your data and assigns geographic roles so building maps can be very easy. If your organization has specific geographies that are stored in Spatial files such as shapefiles or Geodataba...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns. USGIF’s GEOINT Symposium is the preeminent event of the year for the defense, intelligence and homeland security communities. Each year since 2004, GEOINT Symposia have brought together an exciting agenda of keynote speakers, panel discussions, breakout sessions, and provided attendees a unique opportunity to learn from leading experts,...

Held the second Tuesday of every other month, GEOINTeraction Tuesday is a casual networking event where you can develop new relationships, exchange ideas and discover business opportunities. Each event features a guest speaker from the Defense, Intelligence, or Homeland Security Community who shares their views on current issues and answers audience questions.

What do today’s non-traditional commercial data and analytic capabilities look like and how can the community better solve national security issues through advancing the GEOINT tradecraft? Join us Feb. 25-26 for a two-day discussion focused on how commercial GEOINT is helping open the aperture. The Commercial GEOINT Workshop builds on USGIF’s successful Small Satellite Workshop and looks at how the technology has evolved and will c...

The geospatial community is growing and more jobs are being added each day. USGIF’s Geospatial Job Fair is the perfect opportunity for job seekers with a background in the geospatial arena to find jobs that match their skills in the community. Whether you’re currently unemployed or looking for a change in careers, this is a must attend job fair! Open positions include analysts, programmers, system and solution engineers, data manag...

Reserve your table or individual seats now for the community’s 14th Annual GEOGala. The USGIF black-tie GEOGala celebrates the dedication and support of the GEOINT Community. USGIF is proud to bring together more than 500 leaders from across the Defense, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Communities with USGIF Organizational Members, Individual Members, Foundation partners and their guests.