DGI 2017 (past event)

23 - 25 January, 2017

44 (0) 207 368 9836

Michael Thomas, Project Manager, USAF Communications and Networks Division at Naval Space and Warfare Centre (SPAWAR)
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Michael Thomas


Project Manager, USAF Communications and Networks Division
Naval Space and Warfare Centre (SPAWAR)

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Key Developments in Crowd, Human, Open, Social and Volunteer Geospatial Information

Monday, January 23rd, 2017


1:45 PM GEOINT Quality Enhanced With Social Network Analysis

Find out about NAVEUR and SPAWAR’s recently formed information project to study the effectiveness of the COCOM’s message capabilities on the human domains in the EUCOM AOR. Discover how to collect, structure, and visualise sociocultural data from open sources to assist units to rapidly communicate human dynamics, visualize community and group affiliations, prepare for key leader engagements, highlight potential powerbrokers, and identify information gaps about the human terrain.

  • Examining the utility of visualizing social networks in order to inform a group’s population engagement strategy
  • Key benefits of the project including how to prepare for key leader engagements, highlight potential powerbrokers, and identify information gaps about the human terrain
  • Real world example from the 2015 terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris
  • Find out how to understand and influence the human domain at the tactical level

2:25 PM Panel Discussion: How Should the Geospatial Intelligence Community Reconfigure to Operate with Open and Human Geospatial Data?

Moderator: Ian Spencer, UK MoD

Colonel David Pendall, G2, US Army Europe

Daryl Madden, Senior VP and GM, TextronSystems Geospatial Solutions

Kari J. Craun, U.S. Geological Survey

Geospatial Intelligence for Public Safety and National Security

Tuesday, January 24th, 2017