USGIF and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) bring you the third annual Innovative Tradecraft Competition, an opportunity for USGIF and OGC members to demonstrate innovative GEOINT solutions addressing mission problems through visualization, discovering needles in needle stacks, data sharing, and interoperability. This year, we’d like to see how our community might tackle seemingly intractable problems leveraging GEOINT. Solving proble...

The world is awash in geospatial data, just as the development and adoption of GEOINT AI and ML solutions are becoming reality. In order to maximize potential of such advancements, organizations must undertake a systematic approach to geospatial data management and governance. Join this session to learn about how government and industry organizations are turning data strategies into operational realities. Last October, NGA publicly published a...

With all of the devices, locations, connection types, and opportunities for compromise we have today, user accounts and connected devices should not be trusted by default. In fact, information access should only be provided in limited or as-needed fashion. This “Zero Trust” approach to network security is uniquely suited to safeguarding agencies in an age of cloud applications, virtualized desktops, and widespread network access. J...

No longer dismissed as “an environmental anomaly,” but now broadly recognized as a threat multiplier and a catalyst for instability and conflict, climate change can lead to crisis, requiring urgent and well-informed collaborative action. Regardless of the rhetoric, climate change presents challenges but also opportunities for the Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) community which can play a critical role in future efforts to address...

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...

The continuing decline in funds for government agencies poses a great challenge to these agencies to finance their new missions or maintain existing ones. With funds drying out, many agencies are looking for creative ways to move forward with their projects. We believe that our client resilience is an important part of our existence and our business growth, so we got our hands dirty looking for creative ways to enable our clients to achieve th...

Machine-generated data is one of the fastest growing and complex areas of big data. It's also one of the most valuable, containing a definitive record of all user transactions, customer and machine behavior, security threats, user activity, and much more. Join us as we explore the basics of machine data analysis and highlight techniques to help you turn your organization’s machine data into actionable insights. You will be introduced to...

The creation and dissemination of GEOINT data, products, and services allows users to answer questions such as “What’s happening where?” and “What could happen when?” Observation datasets of the Earth’s physical and cultural characteristics – including elevation, bathymetry, gravity, and human geography – enable the GEOINT community to orient, decide, and act faster. The rapid advancement of tech...

Geospatial 3D models of buildings and terrain are a critical asset to the GEOINT community. However, acquiring such models has historically been costly, requiring either labor intensive manual modeling or expensive active scanners like LiDAR. Over the past fifteen years there has been a shift toward automated 3D model generation from passive sensors including UAS video and satellite imagery, each of which allow data collection over broader are...

The open source Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack) is the tool of choice for teams building scalable, real-time solutions for system and app monitoring, cybersecurity, search, and (of course) GEOINT analysis. This training will familiarize students with the basics of the stack, update them on recently introduced features, and provide a step-by-step demonstration of a basic end-to-end data collection and analysis pipeline that can be scaled up...