Search Results for “geospatial” – Page 38

2010/01/122010/01/12

Definitions: Spatial Referencing System (SRS)

A spatial referencing system (SRS) or coordinate reference system (CRS) is a coordinate-based local, regional or global system used to locate geographical entities. Some of systems in existence are: Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system British national grid reference system Irish grid reference system Irish Transverse Mercator Israeli Transverse Mercator Israeli Cassini Soldner Jordan Transverse Mercator …

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2010/01/092010/01/09

Journal: Ivory Tower Musings on Intelligence-Sharing

Why intelligence-sharing can’t always make us safer By Jennifer Sims and Bob Gallucci Friday, January 8, 2010; A19 Phi Beta Iota: This Op-Ed is stunningly irrelevant to the problem at hand: a secret intelligence community that over-emphasizes cash inputs and secret remote collection, and simultaneously fails to exploit machine-speed all-source geospatially and time tagged processing, …

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2009/12/302010/12/25

Graphic: UN Joint Military Analysis Center (Dorn)

This is a very simplified version for public consumption from Dorn 2009. In the Congo MajGen Cammaert was obliged to spend a great deal of time on geospatial information that was not “on the shelf” (utlimately The Netherlands spent USD 3 million to meet his prioritized needs as shown at Graphic: CD (Congo) 1:50,000 Combat …

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2009/12/282014/04/22

Worth a Look: MapAction Emergency Deployment Service

East View Cartographic has been and remains our preferred provider of emergency geospatial services, but we like what we see here at MapAction, which appears to be popular in meeting United Nation (UN) needs, so we show them today as Worth a Look. Sample Entry: MapAction has published the first edition of its Field Guide …

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2009/12/252009/12/25

Search: map of iranian influence in africa

Phi Beta Iota: Extremely cool search! Should be combined with a map of Chinese, Turkish, and Brazilian influence in Africa. OSS.Net, Inc. drew on its European allies to provide the tribal maps for Afghanistan and Iraq to Special Forces prior to their going in, and we are still astonished at the complete lack of a …

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2009/12/192010/01/01

Journal: Director of National Intelligence Alleges….

Strengthening Our Nation’s Front Line Of Defense By Dennis C. Blair Friday, December 18, 2009 Phi Beta Iota: This is a seriously misleading article, our comments are provided after each paragraph. The legislation authorizing post-Sept. 11 intelligence reform — the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 — was signed into law five years …

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2009/12/142009/12/14

Journal: Four-Dimensional Digital Maps

The graphic can be enlarged. Two key points: 1. We are finally getting to where geospatial and functional data can be merged in near-real-time. 2. Intelligence Online remains our only “must read” The question that is NOT being addressed is this one: What will it take to create an infinitely scalable and drillable digital map …

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