DGI 2017 (past event)

23 - 25 January, 2017

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Todd Bacastow, Professor of Practice for Geospatial Intelligence College of Earth and Mine at Penn State University
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Todd Bacastow


Professor of Practice for Geospatial Intelligence College of Earth and Mine
Penn State University

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Geospatial Intelligence for Regional and Global Security

Wednesday, January 25th, 2017


2:55 PM Explaining the Benefits of Object-Based Analysis (OBA) To Enable Richer Geospatial Intelligence Now and in the Future

The science and art of geospatial analysis are changing. Object-Based Analysis (OBA) moves the analyst’s thinking from differences between maps and images to a knowledge-dialog where the analyst examines data changes in space and time. This departs from the conventional GEOINT approach where the map layer is the organizing construct.

  • Object-Based Analysis (OBA) is driven by the move to Object-Based Intelligence (OBI)
  • In OBA, the geospatial analyst thinks in terms of a narrative in space and time
  • Activity-based intelligence (ABI) is OBA
  • Implications of OBA to the tradecraft and learning are far reaching