Monthly Archives: July 2015
Harnessing a New Set of Hyperspectral Eyes
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The V1 Video team interviewed Chris Van Veen, who handles marketing for Headwall Photonics, at the GEOINT Symposium in Washington, D.C. The company focuses on hyperspectral imaging to discern details and features such as vegetation health. The company is now deploying their sensors on Unmanned Aircraft Systems for cheaper and more-automated sensing and monitoring.
7_23 Infrastructure Broadcast (AEC Market Reports, Smart Cities and More)
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This Infrastructure-themed GeoSpatial Stream broadcast discusses an optimistic AEC market report; a $16 billion commitment from the state of Washington for transportation improvements; a new LADOT public Web map for smart communities; laser scanning in Mexico; industry news from SmarterBetterCities, Topcon Positioning Group and PaveXpress; thoughts on seeing Informed Infrastructure in action in Chicago; and more.
Decision Advantage through Data Analysis
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The V1 Video team interviewed Hugh McFadden, manager of Emerging Intelligence Programs, and Stephen Ryan, senior mission engineer with the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division, both at Northrop Grumman, at the GEOINT Symposium in Washington, D.C. The pair work closely together on solutions to enhance intelligence gathering focused on threats. We discussed automation vs. human cognitive reasoning as well as conditioning sensor information—exploiting and integrating their inputs.
Analytics, Ease of Use and Accessibility at Esri
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The V1 Video team interviewed Brian Lehman, director of Defense Business Development at Esri, at the GEOINT Symposium in Washington, D.C. We spoke about task-driven workflows that streamline multi-step processes, incorporating automation to ease the tedious nature of some lengthy geospatial processing and analysis functions. The company has developed a number of analytic tools that also ease integration, harnessing the power of geography to integrate intelligence data.
Data Leading a Geospatial Revolution
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The V1 Video team interviewed Scott Jachimski, director of Data Science at Booz Allen Hamilton, at the GEOINT Symposium in Washington, D.C. We spoke about data science and the need to improve our ability to leverage the mass amounts of data that we’re collecting. Booz Allen Hamilton is leveraging analytical workflows and bringing disparate data together in a “data lake” approach that brings them out of silos to allow the data to help tell you what to do.
Fusing Data through Automation to Provide Insight
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The V1 Video team interviewed Keith Johnson, technical director for Analysis & Mission Solutions at Lockheed Martin, at the GEOINT Symposium in Washington, D.C. We spoke about making sense of imagery; wide-area full-motion video; and textual, social, civil, signals and cyber inputs for decision makers. Lockheed Martin is focused on automation to deliver the right type of data to the analyst as well as providing next-generation sensors with on-board processing that complement other expanding sensors.
7_30 Spatial Broadcast (Esri UC Highlights, NASA News and More)
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This GeoSpatial Stream broadcast discusses highlights from the Esri User Conference; NASA news from the Kepler mission and a near-Earth-sized planet as well as satellite data noting plankton's effects on clouds and climate; industry news from SAP, Esri, Nepal and LizardTech; thoughts on the Kepler mission and the possibilities of life beyond Earth; and more.
