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Monday, August 8th, 2016
Patrick T. Biltgen, Ph.D., Technical Director for Analytics, Vencore, Inc., talked with GISCafe Voice about their offerings. Vencore is a provider of information solutions, engineering and analytics for the U.S. Government with more than 40 years of experience working in the defense, civilian and intelligence communities. This summer Vencore, a company that spun off from Lockheed Martin about four years ago, was awarded a prime contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to deliver research in the area of enhanced cyber defense by developing a fully air-gapped detection system based on analysis of involuntary analog emissions. The four-year contract has a total ceiling value of $8.3M and will be performed as part of DARPA’s Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security (LADS) program.
GISCafe Voice: How are you able to decipher which information is potentially significant and which is not?
Open sources and social media provide a wealth of information, but each source must be vetted carefully. We have developed a structured method for evaluating the quality and reliability of open sources based on their social network, past reporting, credentials, and other factors. We also have highly trained, contextually aware analysts with years of experience studying conflict around the world. Many of our analysts have spent time overseas and are fluent in multiple languages.
This holistic perspective allows us to weigh and judge information instead of accepting open source data at face value.
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Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Infrastructure, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, satellite imagery, Vencore
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016
PenBay Solutions’ chief technology officer, Stuart Rich, spoke with me at Esri UC 2016 in San Diego about the company’s leveraging of GIS to solve facilities management problems.
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Tags: ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, mobile, smartphones
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Friday, July 29th, 2016
Dr. Harold Trease, DataFission’s Chief Scientist spoke with GISCafe Voice about the new DataFission DataHunter, Digital Universe Search Engine – DUSE, a content-based, search engine for use in digesting and searching unstructured data.
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Tags: cloud, data, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, navigation, social media
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Friday, July 8th, 2016
What was the most exciting attraction in the Exhibit Hall at the Esri User Conference 2016? Hard to say, as the 14,000+ attendees flocked to see the plethora of exciting exhibits from third party companies, and of course the numerous demonstrations of Esri products and services. Drones, imagery, field solutions, utilities, navigation, spatially enabled business apps, data management, all vied for an audience at the conference. Esri’s Drone2Map was a huge hit, and Collector for ArcGIS was a product that garnered an enormous amount of attention at its demonstrations and technical workshops, offering the promise of providing mapping to professionals in the field workforce that would in turn, improve the accuracy and currency of spatial data.
 Esri’s Drone2Map (more…)
Tags: cloud, data, DigitalGlobe, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, Harris Geospatial, location, mapping, maps, mobile, remote sensing, SAP HANA, satellite imagery
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2016
The question: what do we do with all this data? Is one that really runs parallel with the theme of this year’s Esri User Conference held in San Diego, entitled, “GIS Enabling a Smarter World.”
 Jack Dangermond, CEO and President of Esri (more…)
Tags: ESRI, geospatial, GIS, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, navigation, NOAA, remote sensing, satellite imagery, small sats, smartphones, USGS
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Monday, June 6th, 2016
R.J. Talyor, Geofeedia’s vice president, Product Management, spoke about the location intelligence company’s expansion of its platform for marketers with the new Geofeedia Ads, leveraging location data for highly targeted advertising. Geofeedia Ads provides valuable context for marketers to zero in on ads that are pertinent to particular audiences across social platforms.
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Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, data, Geofeedia, geospatial, GIS, Infrastructure, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, mobile, smartphones, social media
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
Monday’s keynotes at the GEOINT Symposium 2016 held this week in Orlando, Fla. began with an engaging view of global connectivity from global strategist and author Parag Khanna, author of Connectography, Mapping the Future of Global Civilization. His belief is that the world is at the beginning of the “connectivity revolution.” He asked the audience to consider how they might change the way maps are constructed in order to emphasize today’s global connectivity.
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Tags: data, geospatial, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, mobile, satellite imagery, small sats
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2016
At an industry session held at SPAR3D 2016 in April in The Woodlands, Texas, Steve Hutsell, Chief, Geospatial Section U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Seattle District, and Lou Bush, Director of Survey, Bowman Consulting Group, gave a talk entitled: “Integrated Data Capture, BIM, CIM, GIS and CAD – Owner and Industry Perspectives on Products, Processes and Policies for Informed Decision Making.”
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Tags: AEC, ArcGIS, Bentley Systems, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, Google Maps, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, iPhone, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NOAA, Open Geospatial Consortium, satellite imagery, small sats, surveying, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Friday, April 29th, 2016
Daryl Madden, senior vice president and general manager, Advanced Information Solutions and Geospatial Solutions at Textron Systems Geospatial Solutions of Sterling, Va. spoke with GISCafe Voice about the $13 million corporation’s commercial off-the-shelf products.
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Tags: climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, mobile, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, navigation, satellite imagery
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
Those I spoke to at SPAR3D 2016 last week were amazed at the progress the 3D laser scanning/reality capture products had made over just one year. Many people attended in order to find out if the technology would be right for their organization and what it would entail in terms of a learning curve, and of course, how much it would cost.
 SPAR 3D scanning mobile unit from Surphaser (more…)
Tags: ArcGIS, Autodesk, Bentley, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NOAA, remote sensing, satellite imagery, smartphones
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