Pascal Legai

The international context (terrorism, migration, hybrid threats) requires a strong review of operational and situation awareness mechanisms to reinforce the credibility of the EU external action. In this context, it appears essential to rely on Earth Observation Space-based systems ensuring access to relevant pre-selected information at any time. In this regards, a real partnership with the data providers turns out crucial to focus only on useful geographic areas from an increasing amount of data coming from constellations of satellites with a higher revisit time, even a persistent coverage.

• Why strong EU political orientation is required to face current threats
• Operational capacity gaps to bridge as a priority
• How the EU Sat Centre is helping to change information into actionable intelligence
• The future role of the EU Sat Centre in delivering GEOINT to partners

Put your questions to the panel of senior intelligence leaders from NATO and the EU as they offer new thinking around how to improve exchange of geospatial information. Addressing major obstacles to overcome in policy, technology and process this discussion offers you a unique opportunity to improve your understanding of how intelligence will be shared in the future.

• How is the sharing of geospatial information making a crucial difference in current operations?
• What are the key capability gaps to bridge first when it comes to sharing geospatial information?
• What you can do in your organisation to enable greater sharing of geospatial information with your Allies
• Q&A with the panel of senior intelligence leaders from Europe