Registration is now CLOSED. Please email events@usgif.org with any questions. Join us for an illuminating one-day workshop on “Space Situational Awareness: Bridging Government and Industry Collaboration” where experts, thought leaders, and industry pioneers come together to delve into the complex and ever-evolving frontier of Space Situational Awareness. Space Situational Awareness has never been more critical to the GEOINT communi...

USGIF’s annual black-tie event, the GEOGala is a night of celebration and networking for the GEOINT Community where we gather to recognize the Lundahl-Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award Winner. This prestigious award is named for Arthur C. Lundahl and Thomas C. Finnie, honoring their accomplishments—in imagery analysis and mapping, respectively—and their legacies within the GEOINT community.

Join USGIF for a two-day program that takes a critical look at what is required to increase, maintain, and protect the U.S. geospatial intelligence advantage in the years ahead. For decades, the U.S. GEOINT advantage has been a clear and unchallenged pillar of the country’s national security posture. The GEOINT community has seen a proliferation of new GEOINT space, cyberspace, and terrestrial capabilities, and the community is projected...

USGIF is pleased to present this three-part workshop on Women as Leaders for the Intelligence Community. July 19thSeptember 27thNovember 8th While leadership is key to organizational success, women are not always equally represented. Women tend to rise to middle management and then experience being promoted slowly, with even fewer women representing on boards and as members of the C-suite. Women receive 57% of all higher education degrees. We...

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...

Registration Closes February 8, 2023 Join us as USGIF continues series of programs focused on the GEOINT equities of the U.S. military forces with a day of in-person programming dedicated to the U.S. Army. This day of keynotes and panel discussions is intended to inform participants from around the force about how GEOINT matters to them and help members of the GEOINT community better understand the Army’s unique needs. It also affords th...

The GEOINT Symposium, which began in 2004, is the largest annual gathering of geospatial intelligence—and possibly intelligence—professionals in the nation. With an average total attendance of more than 3,000, the event is a unique and unparalleled opportunity to speak to your extended constituency spanning government, military, the contractor community, and academia. This year’s theme, GEOINT: The Foundation of Intelligence...

Attendees will learn the general data flow required for prototyping SAR-based analytics using open source software and cloud computing. We will discuss data aggregation across multiple SAR constellations via unified access and uniform tiling, and breakdown the individual SAR processing steps. Attendees will consider the challenges and best practices to extract unbiased, consistent, all-weather SAR measurements, and using calibrated, georeferen...

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...

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,...