Location Intelligence

Maxar Awarded $26M Contract to Continue Development and Support for NGA Open Mapping Platform

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Source: gisuser.com

Under the agreement, Maxar will continue to provide engineering, software development and geospatial tradecraft to support NOME. “Maxar is excited to continue building upon the 10 years of development that have gone into NOME,” said Tony Frazier, Maxar’s Executive Vice President of Global Field Operations. “NOME is a highly effective mission enabler for the agency’s distributed workforce,” said James Griffith, Director of Source at NGA. NGA delivers world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals and first responders. It is the world leader in timely, relevant, accurate and actionable geospatial intelligence.

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Aerial survey of Dubai: Watch how it is done by Dubai Municipality

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Source: gulfnews.com

Dubai Municipality has set new standards of technological excellence with its advanced aerial photography project currently being implemented using specialised survey aircraft. The aerial photography survey that has a high accuracy of 10 centimetres is one of the most important strategic projects being implemented by Dubai Municipality’s GIS Centre as part of its GeoDubai initiative. Maryam Obaid Al Muhairi, Director of the GIS Centre, said photographing and aerial surveying goes through many stages. Advanced technologies like automatic detection of changes in the available geospatial data and geospatial Artificial Intelligence optimize the extraction and update operations of geospatial data.

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View from India : Using satellite imagery to glean location intelligence

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Source: eandt.theiet.org

Satellite imagery could give inputs on location intelligence, which includes the development of land for specific time periods. Stanford University has predicted poverty levels using night-time satellite imagery, as well as per capita economic expenditure across continents. It also needs to be seen if satellite imagery can help determine the wealth levels of individuals. Satellite imagery has revealed that residents belonging to certain parts of south and north India were financially better off than their counterparts in Bihar and north-east India. It can leverage geospatial tech tools for culling out information derived from the geospatial data and satellite imagery. Geospatial data and satellite images bring us close to real-time feeds and have diverse applications.

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Introducing the Government Geography Profession Leadership Team

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Source: gov.uk

David Wood, Deputy Director Environmental Analysis, supports developing countries in strengthening their geospatial data systems. He and his team built this support on robust geospatial data. He supports geospatial thinking early in any career through mentorship, learning and sharing training and job opportunities. So that individuals develop themselves, receive career support, on-line resources and backing for formal accreditations. His team works on spatial data science, aiming to bring fresh approaches to bear for working with geospatial data on cross cutting environmental policy problems.

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Geospatial AI And The New Italian Renaissance

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Source: wateronline.com

However, rural Tuscany has a relatively low population density and, despite the size of its network, AdF serves only around 400,000 customers. Their mission to become a data-driven utility led to an initial deployment of Rezatec’s Geospatial AI Pipeline Risk product across 674 km of the AdF water network in a pilot programme launched in January 2021. The Pipeline Risk tool assesses these parameters against several years of historical network failure data to characterise the risk factors. Indeed, in adopting the Rezatec tool, AdF has joined much larger players, such as the Italian multi-utility HERA, in using high-tech geospatial AI solutions. Of these nine, six fall in an area showed as very high criticality, two in high criticality areas, and just one in a low criticality area as determined by the geospatial AI model.

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UAF Gains Increased Computing Power That Can Save Lives

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Source: akbizmag.com

The computing cluster arrived at the UAF Geophysical Institute’s Alaska Satellite Facility earlier this year through funding by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The addition of the high-performance computers marks a significant expansion of the Alaska Satellite Facility’s capabilities. The computing cluster, given the name Athena after the Greek goddess of wisdom and war, is designed for processing terrain imagery obtained by satellites for the US government. It will process image data faster and produce maps in greater detail than current systems and at a cost savings to the government. “This is a powerful demonstration of how technology implemented at UAF can benefit the nation and emphasizes the importance of the Alaska Satellite Facility and the University of Alaska in making that benefit a reality,” said Nettie La Belle-Hamer, director of the Alaska Satellite Facility and UAF’s interim vice chancellor for research.

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Harris-Stowe State University Geospatial Hub at T-REX

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Source: gisuser.com

In fact, NGA will establish a geospatial technology lab of their own within T-REX, directly next to Harris-Stowe’s new GeoHornet Lab. Dr. Higgs has taught geography and geographic subjects at Washington University, St. Louis University, and other St. Louis colleges and universities for over 20 years. The lab is emerging as a global center for location-based science and technology advancements. “We couldn’t be more thrilled with the addition of Harris-Stowe programming to our center,” said Mark Tatgenhorst, Geospatial Program Director at T-REX.

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Esri Releases New Predictive 2050 Global Land Cover Map

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Source: tmcnet.com

Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, announced it is releasing a new high-resolution, 2050 global land cover map as part of the company’s Living Atlas. This new series of analytical layers available in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World leverages decades of historic observations along with patterns of land use and development to let users predict land cover in 2050. Similar to that release, planners worldwide can use the 2050 Global Land Cover Map to better understand the surrounding geography with distinctive land cover, as well as human activity affecting them. To explore the new 2050 Global Land Cover Map, visit Living Atlas Land Cover 2050.

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Getting insights from political violence and protests around the world

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Aggregated non-US ACLED events 2000 — 2020

To achieve political goals, we have seen people and governments using political violence. It includes violence between governments, e.g. war as an intense armed conflict, and violence used against non-state actors, e.g. police brutality. A rebellion is a kind of politically motivated violence of non-state actors against a government. The storming of the United States Capitol was a riot act from non-state actors against the United States Congress.

In this walkthrough we used one of the most widely used analysis OSINT source named ACLED. With the help of spatial binning, we easily recognized historical events between 2000 and 2020 without being an intelligence expert. We have implemented most of the workflows into a GEOINT Python module, mainly to give non-spatial experts a better understanding of the implementation details.

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Explore the potential of location intelligence

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Source: ukauthority.com

The Covid-19 pandemic added fuel to the appreciation of the value of location data in the public sector. It is a subject on which many are eager to improve their understanding, identify opportunities and pitfalls in making more of the location data held by themselves and third parties. We need to explore how to take the data into the realm of intelligence, providing organisations with fresh insights for their planning and operations.

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