The protests continued in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Jakob Blake was shot serveral times in the back by a police officer and a teenager shot two people dead at a protest days later.
Source: cbsnews.com
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Hurricane Laura is a Category 4 storm with a kind of „unsurvivable“ storm surge like power outages and dangerous winds up to 150 mph. The experts of the National Hurricane Center expects catastrophic damage in Louisiana.
A lot of people in Louisana refused to leave their homes. People located in Beaumont, Galveston and Port Arthur were ordered to evacuate as the storm approached.
Source: usatoday.com
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In Minsk two leaders of the opposition in Belarus appeared in court after a night in jail. There are more mass demonstrations planned against President Alexander Lukashenko.
Minsk is a second-level administrative subdivision of Belarus in the Minskaja Voblasć. The administrative seat is the city of Minsk, which is administratively separated from the subdivision.
Source: yahoo.com
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Dry lightning and dusty winds are the results of the fires in California. Red-flag warnings across northern and central california. The fire-fighters are tackling the hotspots in Boulder Creek, California.
Dangerous fires are also arising from the Santa Cruz Mountains. Usually these fires were ignited by lightning strikes.
Several counties including Sonoma, Napa and Solano are fighting the fires. Lightning storms could spark new blazes across these counties of Northern California.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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The mental health has worsened since the COVID-19 outbreak. IBM Korea had used an artificial intelligence program to analyze the captured data.
All over the world the social distancing guidelines are too indispensable.
Source: reuters.com
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Iraq’s Taji base is a military camp also known as „Camp Cooke“ used by coalition forces, near the city Taji, Iraq. The camp is located in a rural region north of the city of Baghdad.
Source: aljazeera.com
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The fire crews deploying water-dropping helicopters made a defensive stand against flames raging in the foothills of the Napa Valley wine region as forecasts called for a return of dangerous high winds and hot weather.
Firefighters were battling the fire, which broke out near the resort community of Calistoga, north of San Francisco.
Source: reuters.com
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What does geospatial intelligence mean?
For me, geospatial intelligence means monitoring human activities by getting insights from location based informations.
In the current decade using open source intelligence is one of the most important intelligence disciplines.
„I do not know what I do not know!?!“
Let us take a look back …
Wikipedia started as an open collaboration project in 2001.
The Open Streetmap project was created by Steve Coast in 2004.
Since 2005 a crowdsourced geographical database named GeoNames was founded.
2020 I just started this blog based on geospatial intelligence. Stay tuned.
