Archive for the ‘location intelligence’ Category
Thursday, October 13th, 2016
An article this week in The New York Times Police Use Surveillance Tool to Scan Social Media about Chicago company Geofeedia’s use of text, photos and videos from social media outlets such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to aid in law enforcement sparks controversy about law enforcement vs. civil liberties.
The use of location technology to solve crimes is nothing new. The use of social media content in a specific location is relatively new, and a potent resource for law enforcement.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing, or is it, like all new technologies, fraught with the potential for misuse as well as for the common good? It is sort of like the case of the hammer: you can use it to build a house, or to hit someone over the head with it.
We have covered Geofeedia quite extensively in GISCafe news, for use in retail, public safety, disaster response and law enforcement etc. Additional uses for Geofeedia services remain to be seen, but it may be extremely helpful for averting violence at certain events.
Geofeedia Ads Leverages Location Data
Within Seconds, Geofeedia Customers Can Take Action on Data
It is really a case of, we have the technology, so how do we use it to its best advantage without damaging civil liberties of the individual?
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Tags: crowdsourcing, geospatial, GIS, Infrastructure, intelligence, location, mapping, Microsoft, mobile, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
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Thursday, October 6th, 2016
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure acquired GISquadrat GmbH of Vienna, Austria. The acquisition is aimed at enhancing Hexagon’s geospatial, cloud and mobile solutions for governments and utility providers in Europe as well as bringing in more than 300 customers and thousands of users into the Hexagon fold.
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Tags: geospatial, GIS, Google, government, GPS, Hexagon, Infrastructure, intelligence, Intergraph, location, mapping, maps, mobile, navigation, utilities
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Thursday, September 8th, 2016
The computer can show you how one senator has co-sponsored more bills of a Senate Majority Leader than any other senator over a period of years. It can also show you who has the best record of getting bills out of committee – information that took years in the making to obtain ten years ago. Today, with a dashboard platform called Quorum Analytics, a startup developed a year ago by two then-Harvard undergraduates, Alex Wirth and Jonathan Marks, customers can have this information at their fingertips for far less time and money.
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Tags: cloud, Congress, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, GPS, Infrastructure, intelligence, location, Quorum, Senate
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Friday, August 26th, 2016
A little hilltop town in Italy was putting the crowning preparations on their annual pasta festival, when the earthquake struck this week.
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Tags: Amatrice, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Italian earthquake, location, mapping, maps, mobile, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, remote sensing, satellite imagery, social media
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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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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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Wednesday, June 1st, 2016
Joe Francica, managing director of Geospatial Industry Solutions, Digital Commerce Solutions for Pitney Bowes talked about the company’s focus on the launch of horizontal location intelligence, while at GEOINT Symposium 2016 a week ago.
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Tags: Geocoding, geospatial, GIS, GPS, Infrastructure, intelligence, iPhone, location, mapping, maps
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
GEOINT 2016 in Orlando next week is expected to be an exciting conference for the government sector.
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Tags: ArcGIS, Autodesk, Bentley, ESRI, GEOINT 2016, geospatial, GIS, intelligence, Intergraph, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, satellite imagery, small sats, social media
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