Human Terrain Analysis Focus Day

8:30 Coffee & Registration Coffee & Registration

8:45 Chair’s Opening Remarks Chair’s Opening Remarks

9:00 Using HTA In Your Intelligence Strategy: Challenges & Opportunities Jean Smith, Head Human GEOINT Branch, DGC, ICG, MOD UK Identifying key challenges and goals for your HTA strategy Measuring the size and the opportunity for this new task Developing a flexible and interoperable HTA strategy Gathering, storing and analysing different type of HTA data Giving the right information to the right user on time Jean Smith Head Human GEOINT Branch, DGC, ICG, MOD UK Jean Smith has an MA in Geography and Psychology from Dundee University, an MSC in Physical Geography from the University of Toronto, Canada and a postgraduate business diploma. She joined the MOD Mapping and Charting Establishment in August 1981 as a map researcher and has specialised in geographic research and terrain analysis. She also has held posts in in-house libraries and spent several year [read more]

9:45 Identifying The Role Of Strategic Human Terrain Mapping In Intelligence Collection & Analysis Frank Colley, Assistant Secretary Defence GEOINT, Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation (DIGO), Australian DoD Identifying key strategic aspects of HTA Developing and implementing your HTA strategy Integrating your HTA strategy into your overall GEOINT capability Ensuring interoperability of your HTA strategy Delivering the HTA data to users Frank Colley Assistant Secretary Defence GEOINT, Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation (DIGO), Australian DoD Mr Colley was born in Dalby, Queensland and educated at the Marist Brothers College, Ashgrove in Brisbane. In 1975 he began what was to be a 29 year career in the Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery, before transferring to the Australian Public Service in 2004. Mr Colley’s military career included eight years regimental experience, all of them as part of the Rapid Deployment Force in Townsville [read more]

10:30 Morning Coffee Morning Coffee

11:00 Innovative & Effective Techniques For Socio-Cultural Knowledge Research Assessing key challenges in socio-cultural research in defence Building a research strategy: what needs to be done and how? Developing effective techniques for research Technology use in socio-cultural research Integrating the research results into effective intelligence products

11:45 Qualitative Geography: Analysing Authoritative vs. non-Authoritative Data & Its use in GEOINT Key sources of quality HTA data Building, managing and analysing HTA data Authoritative vs non-authoritative data use Integrating different types of HTA data into your geo capability

12:30 Lunch and Networking Lunch and Networking

13:30 Interactive Seminar: Developing & Integrating An Effective HTA Strategy Interactive Seminar: Developing & Integrating An Effective HTA Strategy

16:30 End of Conference No session description available.