Today’s geospatial professionals are increasingly called upon to deliver content in the form of interactive web apps. This can be challenging with traditional architectures, both because of the inflexibility of conventional template-based approaches, and due to major performance issues when delivering large geotemporal data across the web. OmniSci is a GPU database with built-in high performance geographic rendering (capable of handling...

The future of work at NGA requires the amplification of human-machine partnerships and a more productive and collaborative workforce. Increasing the efficiency and ability of NGA’s internal elements to work better together – across classifications – will amplify the intelligence products that we can provide to NGA’s customers. Join USGIF and members of team NGA as we discuss the agency’s model for future work.

Machine-generated data is one of the fastest growing and complex areas of big data. It's also one of the most valuable, containing a definitive record of all user transactions, customer and machine behavior, security threats, user activity, and much more. Join us as we explore the basics of machine data analysis and highlight techniques to help you turn your organization’s machine data into actionable insights. You will be introduced to...

Join us to celebrate The Honorable Susan M. Gordon and her many contributions to the intelligence community as she is presented USGIF’s most coveted award, the Arthur C. Lundahl-Thomas C. Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award. Then stay tuned as she engages in a real-time mentoring discussion with the 2020 GEOINT Symposium Golden Ticket Winners. The Golden Ticket program is offered each year to young professionals 35 years old or younger to...

Please join members of the GEOINT community to discuss the GeoFuture of the St. Louis region. Members of the GeoFutures Initiative team, along with esteemed community colleagues, will discuss how the strategic plan was derived, the findings, and the next steps. We look forward to engaging with you on this topic that spans the entirety of the global GEOINT community.

Attendees will learn the general data flow required for prototyping SAR-based analytics using open source software and cloud computing. We will discuss data aggregation across multiple SAR constellations via unified access and uniform tiling, and breakdown the individual SAR processing steps. Attendees will consider the challenges and best practices to extract unbiased, consistent, all-weather SAR measurements, and using calibrated, georeferen...

The creation and dissemination of GEOINT data, products, and services allows users to answer questions such as “What’s happening where?” and “What could happen when?” Observation datasets of the Earth’s physical and cultural characteristics – including elevation, bathymetry, gravity, and human geography – enable the GEOINT community to orient, decide, and act faster. The rapid advancement of tech...

Geospatial 3D models of buildings and terrain are a critical asset to the GEOINT community. However, acquiring such models has historically been costly, requiring either labor intensive manual modeling or expensive active scanners like LiDAR. Over the past fifteen years there has been a shift toward automated 3D model generation from passive sensors including UAS video and satellite imagery, each of which allow data collection over broader are...

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...