The Defence Geospatial Intelligence 2012 Advisory Board will be instrumental in creating the conference agenda, selecting speakers and ensuring that DGI 2012 focuses on the challenges and issues of defence GIS community globally. WBR, the organisers of DGI 2012, would like to thank the members of the Advisory Board for their time, support and ideas. The following individuals have kindly agreed to join the DGI 2012 Advisory Board. The DGI Advisory members can be seen below.
Mike is Professor of Geospatial Science and Director of the Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS) www.nottingham.ac.uk/cgs at the University of Nottingham, UK. Previous posts include: Director of Space Division, QinetiQ 2002-2005; Head of Location Platform at Hutchison 3G (“3”) with design responsibility for the 3-G location-based services for Hutchison Wampoa’s 3G telecommunications companies; CEO of geospatial software developer Laser-Scan Holdings plc.(now 1Spatial); Principle Scientific Officer, NERC (during which time he was a PI for NASA); the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell and the Department of Environment. Mike has a 1st in Geography and a PhD in Civil Engineering (Univ. of Manchester) and an honorary doctorate from Kingston University. He is a non-executive director of the Open Geospatial Consortium Inc (OGC), Chairman of OGC Europe, Chair of Commission 5 (Networks) EuroSDR, an AGILE Council Member, a member of the UK Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) GI Board and a member of the UK Location Council Information Interoperability Board. He has presented and published widely on location-based services, digital mapping, GIS, SDI and geospatial intelligence.
Colonel Kedar (John) is Commander Joint Aeronautical and Geospatial Organisation, part of the Intelligence Collection Group and responsible for the delivery of ‘geo’ force elements to operations and for aeronautical information to Defence. In addition he holds functional responsibility for the RE (Geo) capability and its people spread across Defence.
Educated at Norwich (King Edward VI) School, Southampton University, and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he joined the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1984. His younger days included tours in operational and training regiments, including a tour in Belize and two years with Sultan of Oman’s Engineer Regiment. The Army Survey Course and Army Staff College followed in quick succession in the early 1990s, rewarded by a joint operations appointment in Cyprus.
Command tours of 14 Independent Topographic Squadron Royal Engineers and 42 Engineer (Regiment) Royal Engineers included operational deployments to the Balkans in 1996 and the Gulf in 2003. He has worked in the Defence Intelligence Staff, led Engineer-in-Chief (Army)’s Future Army Structures work and developed Defence Information Management doctrine at the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre.
After graduating from London University in 1973 John Knight was responsible for the computation of the British Antarctic Survey control network. He then spent two years lecturing in Geodesy at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria before taking up a post at North East London Polytechnic. In 1986 he was seconded to the Ordnance Survey to carry out research and write applications software for the adjustment of GPS Networks. The following year he was appointed Principal Lecturer at the School of Military Survey in Hermitage where he has overseen the accreditation of the Army Survey Course with the award of MSc in Defence Geographic Information and more recently the Applied Science Foundation Degree in Defence Geographic Information for RE (Geographic) soldiers. In April 2006 John was appointed Principal of the Royal School of Military Survey, a School within the Defence College of Intelligence, and Head of Profession for Lecturers within the Ministry of Defence in April 2007.
Steve Malcolm was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1959 and joined the Royal Navy in 1979. After training and sea appointments in the destroyer HMS NEWCASTLE and survey vessel HMS HYDRA he decided that his future lay within the surveying specialisation of the Royal Navy and completed basic hydrographic training in 1982.
Following a succession of survey and navigation appointments in various parts of the world, he completed the Advanced Hydrographic Course in 1987 and took command of HMS GLEANER on completion at the end of 1988. After a period in the mainstream Warfare specialisation in the frigate HMS CUMBERLAND, he returned to the surveying specialisation as a Lt Cdr working as the Staff Officer Operations for the squadron of survey ships, followed by becoming Staff Officer Survey Planning at the UKHO in Taunton. On returning to sea in 1995, he took command of the mine countermeasures vessel HMS BICESTER operating as the command platform for the NATO standing MCM force operating in the North Sea, Mediterranean and Baltic regions. He conducted the first Joint Command and Staff Course in 1998 and on completion he was awarded a Masters of the Arts degree in Defence Studies.
Back ashore he became the Hydrographic and Meteorological Officers’ appointer dealing with all officers up to Lt Cdr in terms of appointments, career development and promotions. Steve was promoted to Commander in 2000 and was immediately put in charge of the HM Training School in HMS DRAKE, during which time he qualified as a Chartered Scientist, Chartered Marine Scientist and became a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology.
In 2002 he became the Squadron Commander for the surveying squadron in Plymouth and then back to sea as the Commanding Officer of HMS SCOTT at the end of 2004. During his time he surveyed off Sumatra following the Indonesian Tsunami, participated in the Trafalgar 200 celebrations and conducted many thousands of square miles of survey work in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. He was awarded the OBE in 2007 and promoted to Captain in May 2009 when he moved into his current appointment running the Joint Geospatial Intelligence branch in the MoD.
Neil Marks joined the British Army nearly twenty years ago. He has a strategic and operational planning / support background. Initially completing his officer training at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst he then joined the Corps of Royal Engineers and served for six years in Germany, which included two tours in the Balkans and a number of overseas detachments.
Returning to the United Kingdom to undertake the Army Survey Course he obtained a Masters of Science Degree from Cranfield University in Defence Geographic Information.
A mixture of engineer specific and geographic posts then followed, coupled with further overseas detachments. The jobs included command of a Geographic Squadron and Chief of Staff posts in an Engineer Brigade and at the Geographic Engineer Group at Hermitage and a strategic planning post in the Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency (DGIA), now known as the Intelligence Collection Group (ICG).
In his last staff job he worked for the Engineer-in-Chief covering operations and plans for the Corps prior to attending the Advanced Command and Staff Course at the Defence Academy, Shrivenham, where he obtained a Masters of Arts in Defence Studies.
On completion of this course he moved to the European Union Military Staff in Brussels as their Chief Geographic Officer in September 2008. Lieutenant Colonel Marks is a keen sportsman, an avid rugby coach, squash and tennis player and enjoys mountain biking.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Member of the Chartered Management Institute.
Geographer, Ph.D., Senior Advisor, at Danish Ministry of the Environment, National Survey and Cadastre (KMS), working as programme coordinator for Defence and Homeland Security activities in the organisation, amongst which is consultancy, participation in international working groups, development of geospatial infrastructure, and data development. Involved in the development of a pilot version of the Danish National Geodata Emergency Management Portal. Member of Danish National Committee, EU 7th Framework Programme, Security. Member of the programme committee, Nordic Network for geospatial data in Homeland Security. Thematic coordinator for Portrayal, DGIWG.
Michael Powers is the Technical Director of Geospatial Research and Engineering research for the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center and the Army Geospatial Center. Research interests are in terrain reasoning within military decision frameworks and cross domain semantic interoperability. He has worked for the US Army research organizations from 1983 to 1993 and from 1997 to the present. From 1993 to 1996, he served as a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency working in the field of intelligence correlation. Background in physical geography, image processing, knowledge based systems and reasoning with context. Mr. Powers received his B.S from Salisbury State University in Geography and his graduate studies were at the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia in Geography and Systems Engineering respectively.
Richard is currently the Force Information Manager for British Transport Police (BTP) where he has responsibility for Information Management, including the technical management of the Transport Security Spatial Information Infrastructure Project for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Richard has over 20 years experience within the Intelligence and Geospatial areas having spent much of his career in the Royal Air Force working in the UK and overseas at both Operational and Strategic levels, primarily as an imagery analyst. He is a trained Criminal Intelligence Analyst (CIA) having attended the Boston Police Academy (USA) CIA course and is also Secretary to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Geographic Information Board and leads on Aerial Imagery
John F. Teufert works since 2003 as the Geo-Officer at the NATO Command, Control and Consultation Agency (NC3A) in The Hague, Netherlands. He is responsible for all of NATO’s R&D projects in the area of geospatial/environmental intelligence. From 2002 to 2003 he has been with the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC) at Ispra, Italy. At the JRC he has been responsible for implementing a rapid mapping environment for the European Commission. From 1999 to 2002 he worked at the Western European Union Satellite Centre (WEUSC), later EUSC, at Torrejon, Spain. As the principle GIS researcher he introduced complex GIS products to the product line of the WEUSC/EUSC. He holds a MS in physical geography/remote sensing/GIS.
Captain Kjetil Utne entered the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy in July 1983 and was commissioned a sub lieutenant in 1985. He graduated from the Academy’s Operational Branch in 1987, and started his submarine service on board the Navy’s type 207 KOBBEN Class and later the then new 210 ULA Class submarine. In 1992, he entered the Norwegian University of Technology and Science, and its programme in Nautical Science. His thesis was focusing on Maritime Communications Systems, and incorporated collaboration with the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, as well as a month’s field research on board a Research Vessel in the Arctic. Following Cand. Mar. graduation, he entered the Navy Staff College in 1996. Later the same year, he was appointed Head of Maritime Education at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy. In 1997, the then commissioned Commander became Project Department Head at the Navy’s Navigation Center, working with requirements for new electronic navigation systems on board the Navy’s vessels, as well as the Navy’s new simulator training center. In 1999, he took over as Commanding Officer of the Navigation Center, responsible for delivering project requirements, education, training and assessments of navigation in the Norwegian Navy. This post also included being the Chairman of the permanent Navy Accident Investigation Board. The following year, he attended the Norwegian Armed Forces Command and Staff College. In 2002, he was posted to the National Joint Headquarters, as Head of the Military Geographic Branch of the J2 Division. In 2003, he received his commission as Commander Sgr., and appointed to the J7 Division to support establishing a CD&E Branch at the HQs. During this posting, he also studied Psychology at the University of Trondheim, with a thesis focusing on Human Machine Interaction and Cognitive aspects of Command and Control Systems. In 2005, he received his orders to NATO and HQ SACT in Norfolk, to an appointment as Sensors Capabilities Coordinator. During this assignment, he served from August 2006 until February 2007 as acting Captain and Chief Training and Equipment Cell in NTM-I (NATO’s Training Mission in Iraq). Upon returning from Iraq, he was tasked to work on the NCS PE review, in addition to the establishment of a new Operational C2 Branch as part of the realignment of SACT’s C4I Division. Early 2009 he returned to Norway, was commissioned Captain and posted as the new Director of the Norwegian Military Geographic Service from February 1st 2009.