Global issues related to sustainability and climate change require GEOINT analysis on both a planetary and local scale. This USGIF Mission Focus program on GEOINT Contributions to Global Sustainability will include a keynote and a panel discussion featuring key GEOINT Community luminaries. Topics will include government, industry, and academia collaboration to detect and quantify changes, map trends, and how the Earth’s evolving climate...

The National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change released by the National Security Council in October of 2021 lists eight separate climate change effects, each of which portends impacts on food security: heat, heavy precipitation and flooding, drought, sea level rise, arctic ice melt, tropical cyclones, coral reefs, and biodiversity. As populations experience stressors over the production and consumption of food, the potential for mass hum...

Join USGIF for its annual GEOINTegration Summit (now virtual), a multi-day event focused on professional self-discovery and personal branding, with new geospatial opportunities for collaborations. While innovation has always been at the heart of geospatial intelligence, technological evolution and disruptive events bring numerous challenges, but also unprecedented opportunities to transform the productivity, capacity, and capability of the geo...

This panel will focus on GEOINT dissemination and collaboration as it relates to operational challenges. Panel members will discuss the challenges of delivering and receiving actionable intelligence from platforms to tactical operators. Dissemination focuses on the sending of imagery and we are in an age where sensors are everywhere (at the tactical level and strategic level) and the need for access is much more synchronous. This group will ex...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns. USGIF’s GEOINT Symposium is the preeminent event of the year for the defense, intelligence and homeland security communities. Each year since 2004, GEOINT Symposia have brought together an exciting agenda of keynote speakers, panel discussions, breakout sessions, and provided attendees a unique opportunity to learn from leading experts,...

Held the second Tuesday of every other month, GEOINTeraction Tuesday is a casual networking event where you can develop new relationships, exchange ideas and discover business opportunities. Each event features a guest speaker from the Defense, Intelligence, or Homeland Security Community who shares their views on current issues and answers audience questions.

GEOINT 2017 takes place June 4-7 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. Hosted and produced by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), a non-profit, non-lobbying educational organization, the annual GEOINT Symposium is the nation’s largest gathering of industry, academia, and government to include Defense, Intelligence and Homeland Security Communities as well as commercial, Fed/Civil, Sta...

Held the second Tuesday of every other month, GEOINTeraction Tuesday is a casual networking event where you can develop new relationships, exchange ideas and discover business opportunities. Each event features a guest speaker from the Defense, Intelligence, or Homeland Security Community who shares their views on current issues and answers audience questions.

Held the second Tuesday of every other month, GEOINTeraction Tuesday is a casual networking event where you can develop new relationships, exchange ideas and discover business opportunities. Each event features a guest speaker from the Defense, Intelligence, or Homeland Security Community who shares their views on current issues and answers audience questions.

In 2015, we explored our future in an urbanized world. By all indications, the future sees population increasing and densifying within urban areas, and growth halting elsewhere. Whether we face a future where technologies increasingly reduce cities’ dependence on the hinterlands for food, water and energy, or whether we face a future where the ecological stress on the hinterlands continues to grow, we are faced with hard choices about th...