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3 NGA Challenges
3 NGA Challenges
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How can NGA build a targeted research program to create breakthroughs in geographical and information science that will lead to new systems, information advantages, and assets to match the needs of the next era? TOP 10 CHALLENGES In briefing materials given to the committee, NGA enumerates a set of problems of immediate concern: the top 10 list of challenges that must be met to prepare intelligence at the global, regional, and local levels: 23
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technology. Intelligence layers currently include weather information, strategic battle planning overlays, intelligence reports, and a layer attributing navigation safety.
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Not only is NGA responsible for solutions to its own operating and research challenges, but as functional manager for the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG) , NGA has the responsibility to set future directions for national geospatial activities, including an overall national vision of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial investment.
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The NGA chief scientist identifies the following disciplines as preeminent in pursuing basic research that is applicable to the NSG Strategic Intent:
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One such enumeration originates with the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) , a consortium of more than 80 North American universities, professional organizations, and private vendors in which GIScience is taught and researched.
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A second group of priorities relates to data use and representation: extending geographic representation, cognition of geographic information, and GIS and society. A third group of priorities addresses specialized analytical methods required for processing geospatial data: geographic scale, spatial analysis in a GIS environment, and uncertainty.
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Using knowledge about hard problems in geospatial information science as a starting point, in the next chapter this report focuses on the subset of these hard problems that are of most relevance to NGA in advancing GEOINT. SUMMARY This chapter begins with a review of NGA's own assessment of the short-term challenges it faces in current operations and an assessment of how these immediate challenges imply broader research needs.
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30 PRIORITIES FOR GEOINT RESEARCH AT NGA GIS models that use layers and collocation as a means of data integration will be replaced by support for feature-level information that is independent of the collection systems used to acquire the data. In Chapter 4, the "top 10" list is used to structure the hard problems that NGA research faces and suggest promising solutions.
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