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6 Priorities for NGA GEOINT Research
6 Priorities for NGA GEOINT Research
Pages 73-86
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The committee's charge was to examine the hard problems in geospatial science that must be addressed to improve geospatial intelligence, and to identify promising methods and tools in geospatial science and related disciplines that can be brought to bear on national security and homeland defense problems. Most of the committee's recommendations address this charge directly, and Chapter 4 structures the identification of problems and methods around the "top 10" priority list generated by the NGA.
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This is the environment in which today's GEOINT evolved, yet the NGA vision recognizes that the Cold War compartmentalized model is no longer adequate. A cycle that once could take months must now happen in minutes.
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PRIORITIES FOR NGA GEOINT RESEARCH 75 Cyber infrastructure Acquire Targeted gathering Preprocessing/filtering Identify Locate relevant resources Descriptive semantics Preserve Integrate Selective archiving On-demand Space-time data Semantic intelligence Architecture indexing Variable resolution Generalization Uncertainty Semantics Analyze Disseminate Data mining Distributed INTEL Multicriteria analysis collaboration Object tracking Augmented reality FIGURE 6.1 GEOINT2 information flow.
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Acquire. Information acquisition incorporates targeted gathering strategies and intelligent preprocessing and filtering, to collect no more and no less information than is required.
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As noted above, successful sharing of data and information analysis results will require shared standards describing data format and meaning among the systems used by different agencies and including provenance, workflow, and uncertainty information. Preserve.
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The recommendation targets research at ensuring that current database architectures scale up to meet the demands of agile geospatial sensor networks. With a vast variety of sensors, remote and otherwise, and with a substantial increase in data volumes from all sensors due to increased spectral, spatial, and temporal resolution, the likelihood of failure of the existing models is high.
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This recommendation formalizes the importance placed by the committee on the need to move away from static GEOINT, such as maps and images, toward data streams linked to features moving against a background of more static, but still changing, reference data. This means not simply being able to update the spatial information framework rapidly (e.g., imagery, vector cultural data, place names, vegetation, digital elevation model)
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The committee assigns advanced toponymic services to Priority 2. Recommendation 9 seeks research to promote the reuse and preservation of data.
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Again, although visualization is likely to be of most use in analysis and identification, there are few parts of the intelligence cycle in which visualization is not useful. New methods such as latent semantic indexing, the semantic web, and self-organizing maps are able to take nonspatial data and use spatial visualization methods to seek pattern.
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Disseminate Recommendation 12 directs NGA research toward the particular needs of geospatial data for protection with multilevel security and the processing of data so that they resemble public domain or commercially produced structures and formats. Anecdotally, the committee heard that this problem was "eating our lunch" and of the highest priority.
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This recommendation is assigned Priority 1. The casual reader of Chapter 2 would probably become confused about the number and diversity of means by which NGA research brings new knowledge and ideas forward.
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Recommendation 15 suggests that NGA define and publicly articulate the current and future geospatial information architecture, at a level of detail sufficient for the integration of future prototype systems and components. The goal of this task is to align and interoperate current and near-future systems.
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could also serve as a guidance document for future Broad Area Announcements and directed research requests. When linked to the more abstract but critical doctrine guidance provided by NGA's leadership, the agency will be well on the way to the design and implementation of GEOINT2, the geospatial intelligence infrastructure for the twenty-first century.
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