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The Future of U.S. Commercial Imagery VISION IMPLEMENTATION » INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION » NEW CONCERNS ABOUT PRIVACY SUMMER 2012 THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION Crossroads The Future of U.S. Commercial Imagery VISION IMPLEMENTATION At L-3 STRATIS, we help organizations make the technological and cultural changes needed to implement their vision. Our innovative cyber, intel and next generation IT solutions enable your mission, while reducing costs and improving the user experience. Find out more. Contact [email protected] or visit www.L3STRATIS.com STRATIS L-3com.com contents summer 2012 2 | VANTAGE POINT Features 27 | MEMBERSHIP PULSE Introducing the new Accenture upgrades to USGIF strategic partner. trajectory magazine. 9 | AT A CROSSROADS 4 | INTSIDER Proposed cuts to NGA’s EnhancedView 28 | GEN YPG News updates plus high- program revive the commercial Beacon of Hope and YPG lights from got geoint? imagery debate. work together to help By Kristin Quinn rebuild New Orleans. 6 | IN MOTION Small Business Advisory 30 | HORIZONS Working Group hosts Reading List, Peer Intel, 16 | THE $4B GLOBAL PIE luncheon with guest Calendar. speakers from NGA. New competition is forming in the commercial data marketplace. 32 | APERTURE 8 | ELEVATE By Brad Causey Canada has it. Germany Mizzou’s Center for has it. Italy has it. Back in Geospatial Intelligence the U.S., SAR? goes beyond academics. 22 | PIGEONHOLED Privacy policies threaten advances ON THE COVER Cover image of Dallas, Texas, in technology. courtesy of GeoEye. Image has By Jim Hodges been altered with permission for editorial purposes. trAJectorYmAGAZIne.com eXcLusIVes VIDEO PODCAST PANEL “What can you do with Exclusive interview Recap of the Space geography?” National with Kevin Pomfret, Enterprise Council's Geographic video director of the Centre panel on the impor- featuring Keith for Spatial Law and tance of commercial Masback of USGIF. Policy. imagery. USGIF.ORG kk TRAJECTORY | 1 Vantage Point USGIF CEO & CHAIRMAN e e K. Stuart Shea TRA·JEC·TO·RY NOUN \TR -'JEK-T( -)RE\ PUBLISHER Keith J. Masback 1: the curve that a body (as a planet or comet in its orbit EXECUTIVE EDITOR or a rocket) describes in space Jordan Fuhr 2: a path, progression, or line of development resembling [email protected] a physical trajectory <an upward career trajectory> MANAGING EDITOR Kristin Quinn Sitting at 39,000 feet over Newfoundland, I am observing the trajectory of my flight to Amsterdam [email protected] via the map displayed on the screen in front of my seat. (I guess I really am a geo-nerd.) As I write this, I’m en route to Amsterdam to chair the Defence and Intelligence Symposium embedded in the EDITOR larger Geospatial World Forum, USGIF’s first official foray outside the United States. Brad Causey We are fresh off a fantastic week in St. Louis where we hosted a near-capacity crowd at our [email protected] annual NGA Tech Showcase West. NGA Director Tish Long joined us for our Chairman’s Event lunch to kick off the week, and Dr. Bobby Laurine and his folks provided a unique opportunity for our ART DIRECTOR industry partners to learn about the NGA mission in St. Louis. Over the course of two days, attendees were Ken Ovryn able to walk about the classified workspaces at the 2nd Street [email protected] and Arnold facilities, and learn directly from the workforce via 70 capability demonstrations. I don’t know of any other events AD SALES like this within DOD or the IC, and we look forward to repli- Jeff Ley cating the showcase at other locations in the future. [email protected] USGIF is also looking forward to seeing the success of this new magazine unfold. For about three years, USGIF had a mutually beneficial partnership with a DC-area publishing company to bring you our official magazine. Trajectory is the official magazine As our organization matured, we decided to launch our of the United States Geospatial own publication to more appropriately reflect our leader- Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), ship position in the GEOINT Community. in Herndon, Va. We are incredibly excited about the launch of trajectory. As you have come to expect from USGIF, it promises to How to reacH us be a first-class publication. Our widely populargot geoint? LETTERS AND COMMENTS blog will be rolled into the new trajectorymagazine.com For comments on trajectory, contact website, as we strive to better synchronize our events, web presence, magazine, and social media [email protected]. outreach. Overseeing much of these efforts will be the newest addition to the USGIF team, Kristin SUBSCRIPTIONS Quinn, who is also trajectory’s managing editor. For information on subscribing to Kristin is an experienced journalist, and we’re thrilled to have her join us from Gannett, where trajectory, please sign up online at she edited Training and Simulation Journal and frequently contributed to C4ISR Journal. She penned trajectorymagazine.com. this month’s cover story on the state of U.S. commercial remote sensing, providing a superb perspective on this important and somewhat controversial topic. Complementary articles on inter- USGIF MEMBERSHIP national remote sensing and spatial law and policy round out this edition’s features. The rest of For more information on USGIF or the magazine is filled with departments and sections designed to bring you the latest information becoming a USGIF member, contact you need to know if you are a student or professional in our Community. 888-MY-USGIF (888-698-7443). We will always be on the lookout for story ideas, so please feel free to email your thoughts to WEBSITE [email protected]. Also, you can follow the magazine on Twitter at @trajectorymag, and down- trajectorymagazine.com load the trajectory app for a richer, more interactive experience on your tablet device. We will also always have exclusive, up-to-date web content. TWITTER USGIF is on a remarkably exciting path forward. Trajectory will chronicle our progress, and the @trajectorymag progress of the entire GEOINT Community. So buckle in, sit back, and enjoy the ride! PUBLICATION MANAGEMENT KEITH J. MASBACK | PRESIDENT, USGIF @geointer 800-641-3912 | GLCOMM.COM 2 | TRAJECTORY ll TRAJECTORYMAGAZINE.COM Save the Date October 8-11, 2012 Orlando, Florida Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center • Four days of comprehensive agenda featuring keynotes, panels, breakouts, and workshops • Topics related to ISR, Modeling and Simulation, Big Data, Mission Planning and Rehearsal, Homeland Security needs, and much more • Focus on U.S. and Allied partner issues and needs • An exhibit hall with over 100,000 square feet of technologies and solutions • More than 250 government and industry exhibitors • Outdoor displays and demonstrations • Invaluable networking opportunities with almost 4,500 attendees • An amazing return on investment for limited travel budgets www.geoint2012.com Int id e NEWS UPDATES ANDs HIGHLIGHTS FROM GOT GEOINT?r SKYSATS SKYBOX IMAGING RAISES ADDITIONAL $70M Skybox Imaging, an existing investors two high-resolution early-stage provider Khosla Ventures and imaging microsatel- of satellite imagery, Bessemer Venture lites, SkySat-1 and video, and big data Partners, bringing the SkySat-2. It will also analytics, announced it total amount raised to use the funds to grow has raised $70 million date to $91 million. its team of software in Series C financing Skybox plans to engineers and data led by Canaan Partners use the capital to scientists. SkySat-1 and Norwest Venture complete development is slated to launch in Partners. They join and launch of its first late 2012. This Geostellar image represents the precise solar power potential of MAPSTORY LAUNCHES every rooftop in this MapStory (mapstory.org), the brainchild of USGIF Board Member Chris section of downtown Tucker, launched in mid-April after nine feverish months of Tucker and Washington, D.C. a team of techies pushing it live. MapStory provides a place for geo fans of all backgrounds to become GEOEYE PARTNERS WITH SOLAR ENERGY COMPANY storytellers by creating, sharing, collabo- GeoEye announced a strategic relationship with Geostellar, a solar energy com- “MapStory was rating, and ultimately improving our pany. GeoEye will supply high-quality Earth imagery, digital surface models and understanding of global dynamics, world- other mapping data to help Geostellar expand its service. GeoEye also intends to really designed wide, over the course of history. take a small equity position in the company. to let us organize “MapStory was really designed to let us Geostellar has built an analytics platform that automatically determines how together as a organize together, as a community, all the quickly a given property owner can recoup an investment in solar energy. The community all the knowledge about the world spatially and company’s platform models roof slope, shadows, weather patterns, local utility knowledge about the temporally,” said Tucker. “So you are really rates, and solar energy subsidies to automate what has historically been a highly using a map and the timeline metaphor manual process. Geostellar has built solar maps in Washington, D.C., Boston, world spatially and to organize everything we know that has Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and New Jersey, where government agen- temporally.” happened on earth, from Pangaea until cies have made aerial imagery freely available. However, it needed a strategic Chris Tucker, Founder, MapStoryxx now, over the past 1.5 billion years.” partner to help collect and process massive amounts of Earth imagery to catalog Tucker also sees MapStory as an amaz- the solar power potential of every commercial and residential property in the ing educational tool able to benefit any visual learner. The site hopes to United States. GeoEye will apply image processing capabilities developed by develop a global community of experts to “crowd source” socio-cultural GeoEye Analytics to provide the data required to develop solar maps for every key data and present it in a visually compelling way.
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