Navigating Geospatial Intelligence: Key Drivers and IT Opportunities
As the demand for trustworthy visual data collection and advanced technologies to support strategic decision-making continues to rise, geospatial intelligence plays a vital role in delivering essential military and environmental insights to the intelligence community. Recently at the GEOINT Conference in St. Louis, leaders from several intelligence agencies shed light on the future of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) and its relationship with emerging technologies.
With the New Year approaching, What’s the Future of GIS?
After years of development, the use of geospatial technology is exploding in the government. And while it may feel like only yesterday that geospatial applications were only used by GIS specialists, now un-trained users, can access geographic information systems via the Internet and mobile technologies.
Recent years saw the rise of geospatial imagery and analytical tools via the cloud.