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While technological advances in the areas of geospatial imagery, full-motion video, and other raw data have increased the volume of information available to decision makers and warfighters, the intelligence community (IC) still struggles to ensure that data is timely and truly actionable. In many ways, this is the Achilles’ heel for our nation’s overall intelligence capabilities. With the help of industry, the IC has built out the most innovative and forward-thinking intelligence-gathering solutions through imagery and mapping, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data collection, and video, but none of this innovation is of use if it does not help advance our missions abroad.

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In an era of mounting security concerns and an uncertain global balance of power, intelligence gathering for defense and security purposes using Earth observations technologies is of growing importance to governments worldwide. Manned aerial solutions and proprietary defense systems have been the traditional sources of Image Intelligence (IMINT) and geospatial information (GEOINT). Now, however, continuing budget constraints have led government defense agencies to explore other mechanisms to meet their IMINT requirements.

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It has been a busy summer for the Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) team — thanks for giving us the chance to tell you a bit about what we’ve been working on. There have been some interesting product updates to speak of and some cool customer uses for GEE this summer — especially in the government sector.

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At got geoint?, we often featured submitted blog posts from industry experts, USGIF members and organizations doing cutting-edge things in the GEOINT arena. Today, we are excited to share a submitted post from Dr. Eiji Yafuso, PHD, President, PSI Origin. PSI Origin is a USGIF member and is an OEM specializing in capturing and transforming Broad Area Persistent Surveillance data into actionable intelligence, bridging the gap from theory to field-level operations. Below is the guest post:

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During crisis situations, “on-the-ground” information comes from a variety of sources such as news sources, citizen blogs, and various government organizations and must be combined to provide a complete picture about a particular location. This information is shared at all levels through the Homeland Security Information network (HSIN) and helps DHS officials coordinate the appropriate response for a particular incident.

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In many organizations, traditional geospatial users are most familiar with the authoring portion of the geospatial value chain. Individuals within the GEOINT community need to not only author, but also manage, connect and deliver their geospatial information. An authoring tool must offer strong imagery and vector support, and integration with the net-centric architecture provided by OGC web services, as well as tight integration with ESRI, Oracle and Google Earth. ERDAS IMAGINE provides this, also offering comprehensive NITF format support, and can be extended with the IMAGINE Defense Productivity Module to provide support for U.S. national sensor models and TFRD data.

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I’m finally coming up for air after an incredible few days at GEOINT 2008. As the VP of Marketing & Business Development for TerraGo Technologies (commonly known as the GeoPDF guys), I viewed this event as an opportunity for us to re-introduce ourselves to the defense and intelligence market in such a way that people begin to understand the true value that our software provides. It’s not just a data conversion tool that creates GeoPDFs. It’s about software that helps non-GIS users collaborate with each other and with GIS headquarters more effectively. In our opinion, they to do this most effectively using our GeoPDF format, but our software can take any geo-enabled PDF and make it more useful. Today, we’re focused on delivering the software that actually helps people do great things with these PDFs.

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