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Appendix F

Acronyms and Abbreviations

3D three-dimensional
AAG Association of American Geographers
ACM SIG Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group
AGU American Geophysical Union
ASPRS American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
CaGIS Cartography and Geographic Information Society
CASOS Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems
COS Computation and Organization Science
CRADA Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DOD Department of Defense
ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute
GEOINT geospatial intelligence
GIS Geographic Information System
GNSS global navigation satellite systems
GOCE Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer
GPS Global Positioning System
GRSS Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
ICPSR Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IGERT Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
IIF International Institute of Forecasters
INS inertial navigation system
INSNA International Network for Social Network Analysis
ION Institute of Navigation
ISPRS International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
LTFTT Long Term Full Time Training
MOOC Massive Open Online Course
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCGIA National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
NGA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency
NRC National Research Council
NSF National Science Foundation
NWS National Weather Service
SMART Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation
SPIE Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers
UARC University Affiliated Research Center
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UCGIS University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
URISA Urban and Regional Information Systems Society
USC University of Southern California
USGIF U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
WGS 84 World Geodetic System 1984
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We live in a changing world with multiple and evolving threats to national security, including terrorism, asymmetrical warfare (conflicts between agents with different military powers or tactics), and social unrest. Visually depicting and assessing these threats using imagery and other geographically-referenced information is the mission of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). As the nature of the threat evolves, so do the tools, knowledge, and skills needed to respond. The challenge for NGA is to maintain a workforce that can deal with evolving threats to national security, ongoing scientific and technological advances, and changing skills and expectations of workers.

Future U.S. Workforce for Geospatial Intelligence assesses the supply of expertise in 10 geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) fields, including 5 traditional areas (geodesy and geophysics, photogrammetry, remote sensing, cartographic science, and geographic information systems and geospatial analysis) and 5 emerging areas that could improve geospatial intelligence (GEOINT fusion, crowdsourcing, human geography, visual analytics, and forecasting). The report also identifies gaps in expertise relative to NGA's needs and suggests ways to ensure an adequate supply of geospatial intelligence expertise over the next 20 years.

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