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As many in the community know, that National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and members of industry are devoting considerable resources towards bringing the concept of crowdsourced GEOINT to life. As this Spatial Networks post clearly points out, this new frontier can be a powerful force-multiplier for NGA. USGIF wants to explore this topic further at GEOINT 2011 with a breakout session called “Crowd Sourcing Intelligence: A Look at International Disaster Relief & Recovery.” The session will explore the implications of this rapidly evolving geospatial technology for disaster and humanitarian relief efforts.

The panel will include some of the brightest minds when it comes to crowdsourced GEOINT:

- Todd Huffman, Participant, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (invited)
- Terrence Busch, Senior Intelligence Officer, DIA
- John Crowley, Research Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; and Analyst, STAR-TIDES, National Defense University
- Carl Stuekerjuergen, Senior Technical Advisor, Directorate of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Nat Wolpert, Senior GeoSpatial Analyst, NGA, Office of Americas Homeland Security Division, National Geospatial-Intelligence (NGA)

Be sure to mark your calendars and check out this event. Clearly, gleaning data from “human sensors” via crowdsourcing is the present and future of GEOINT and humanitarian efforts. We look forward to seeing you all there!

Tags: Crowdsourced GEOINT, CRowdsourcing GEOINT, GEOINT 2011, GEOINT 2011 Crowdsourcing Session, geospatial intelligence, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NGA, OpenStreetMap, Spatial Networks, USGIF