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This is just one of the key questions discussed in a fascinating panel discussion at DGI Europe in January 2012 and was answered by these four leaders in the Geospatial Community:

• Neil Marks, Chief Geospatial Officer, Joint Force Command Naples, NATO
• Bert Tiems, Chief C2 & Operations Services, C3 Agency, NATO
• Rick Herrmann, Deputy Director, Army Geospatial Centre
• Jim Hockenhull, Head of Military Strategic Planning, UK MoD

Make sure to download our other two parts with more commentry from our panellists, below!

This is just one of the key questions discussed in a fascinating panel discussion at DGI Europe in January 2012 and was answered by these four leaders in the Geospatial Community:

• Neil Marks, Chief Geospatial Officer, Joint Force Command Naples, NATO
• Bert Tiems, Chief C2 & Operations Services, C3 Agency, NATO
• Rick Herrmann, Deputy Director, Army Geospatial Centre
• Jim Hockenhull, Head of Military Strategic Planning, UK MoD

Make sure to download our other two parts with more commentry from our panellists, now!

This is just one of the key topic discussed in a fascinating panel discussion at DGI Europe in January 2012 and was answered by these three leaders in the Geospatial Community:

• Neil Marks, Chief Geospatial Officer, Joint Force Command Naples, NATO
• Bert Tiems, Chief C2 & Operations Services, C3 Agency, NATO
• Rick Herrmann, Deputy Director, Army Geospatial Centre

Make sure to download our other two parts with more commentry from our panellists, now!

We spoke to them to find out more about their operation and why it has the reputation it receives.

"...the issue is how to link what’s happening in two different countries where a lot of movements of suspicious goods and people go by sea. So what we’re bringing into the party is the link between all the land based information in different countries. And as we know, from an intelligence perspective it is now a global issue."

"...you have to train people to move away from linear thinking. You now have to have people to handle the increased demand, they have to understand governance and standards, and they have to understand who they can share with and who they can't."

Are we prepared to handle the new situations that can occur and the new threats we have to handle, or are we still planning for the last war? Today and in the foreseeable future we must be prepared to handle all situations on a scale from peace to war and have the readiness to act in an early phase of a crisis to avoid escalation and return to normal tension as soon as possible.

Col Neil Thompson OMM CD (retired), Managing Director WCGroup. The Importance of all aspects of Geospatial Intelligence continues to grow in all facets of human endeavour. This presentation covers, National Security, Civil Infrastructure,Local Government Planning And Emergency Services and much more!

Since its inception in November 2003, the MGCP has been working toward bolstering international cooperative production and coordination of high resolution digital vector data in high-interest regions where inadequate data currently exists. Find out more about it in this fascinating article.

Few security commentators would dispute the geospatial issue which dominates contemporary concern over maritime security – the generation of a credible Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) picture which is both comprehensive and persistent. In today’s “globalised, connected world;” we believe location is ubiquitous and that everything is tracked. Unfortunately from a maritime perspective, that is far from the truth and vessels once they go over the horizon can essentially “disappear”. Th is absence of reliable domain awareness hamstrings many if not all aspects of maritime commerce and security. Whether the concern is Port Security and administering the ISPS Code or enforcing national sovereignty over an Exclusive Economic Zone; MDA is the fundamental basis for maritime intelligence.

For many experts within the geospatial intelligence field, the cloud presents both the next opportunities and challenges to come.

Speaking to On The Front Line, Dr Joseph Fontanella, army geospatial information officer director, US Army Geospatial Center, said he believes it is simply "a matter of time before just about everything ends up on the cloud".