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Speaker Interview

• By 2020 dramatic technological advances that will bring new challenges and opportunities
  Steve Meekin, Director of Australia’s Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation discusses with Bryan Camoens why Web 2.0 has provided DIGO with great opportunities to use web applications by allowing greater levels of data sharing, interoperability with coalition partners, distribution of services to a wider customer base.
• Major technical impediments to data sharing are not technical but political and cultural
  Carl Reed, Chief Technology Officer at the Open Geospatial Consortium speaks to Defence IQs Asian Correspondent about the latest advancements and use of geospatial tools in Asia. He also outlines some observations on how the sector will evolve going forward.
• The ability to handle data from many sources continues to be a key challenge
  Mohammed Jamil Mohammed Ali, Surveyor General for the Survey Department of Brunei speaks to Defence IQ Editor Bryan Camoens on the challenges to handle data from multiple sources. He also tells us why many new specialist applications will be developed in by 2020.

Market Intelligence

• Governments should take full advantage of the digital era
  

  Steve Meekin, Director of Australia’s Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation believes that we are in an exciting period of rapid advancement and innovation in the geospatial field.

  And even though some of this innovation has been driven by the number of natural disasters in the region, earth observation from space can have real benefits for other Government decisions, economic growth, and infrastructure planning and national security.

• Case Study - Geospatial Defence Intelligence and Reconnaissance in Afghanistan
  Geospatial systems hold many benefits for both the civilian and military communities, providing detailed, mission critical information for use in military operations and infrastructure development.
• Geospatial Intelligence - Analytical Skill Sets For Intelligence Operators
  Geospatial Intelligence or, as it is more familiarly known, GIS, is a product of the post Second World War explosion of technology – or is it? I would contend that this view is flawed and that GIS has been with us for generations: from the cave man who shinned up the nearest tree to get a better look at his quarry to the Montgolfier Brothers rising above Paris in that misty autumn morning 217 years ago.
• Case Study - Geospatial Systems use in Asia
  In recent years, the expanding need for improved geospatial systems serving modernising nations on the Asian continent has grown ever more apparent.
• Case Study - Effectively Enhance Your Profile in the Defence Sector
  87 percent of sponsoring companies rated the overall package as ‘Good’ or ‘Excellent". This Case Study will show you how you can make full use of the opportunities in the defence sector through a strategic partnership with Defence IQ
• Geospatial Location Processes in Applied Defence Scenarios - Whitepaper
  Every aspect of defence and intelligence decision support involves geographic information. Military decisions depend on digital maps; location coordinates from GPS units on vehicles and war fighters, and digital imagery from UAVs and satellites.
  Different types of map data and sensor data (including video) can be combined to create new location information.

Knowledge Archive

• Commander Dave Crossman, Director, Geospatial Intelligence Organisation Hydrographer RNZN, New Zealand Defence Force: Humanitarian Aid & Disaster Relief: an NZDF GIO perspective
• John Day, ESRI: Enabling Enterprise Transformation With GIS
• Colonel Keith Geiger, US Army, Pacific G2: Geospatial Support to Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief (HA/DR)
• Richard R Smith, British Transport Police: Developing a Spatial Information Infrastructure for Policing
• Guenther Ebenwaldner, Asst Dir Geospatial Analysis & Modelling Defence Imagery & Geospatial Organisation: ARF Disaster Relief Mapping Service