GEOINT Coverage, Day 4: More clips from the Expo
GEOINT 2013* — Day Four
Here are more videoclips from the GEOINT Exposition Hall.
VGo replicates a person in a distant location. A user can see, hear, talk and move around as if there. It was designed for healthcare staff such as doctors, and students or remote workers. Using VGo, an NGA staff member in Washington, D.C., was able to virtually attend the GEOINT Expo.
LOGOS Technologies‘ KESTREL is a wide-area persistent surveillance sensor for aerostats to do real-time surveillance, day and night for continuous 360° intelligence collection. See the interview below, and a YouTube video of the system in operation.
KESTREL in operation:
There were numerous discussions by attendees about how the use of real location data and imagery could help greatly in training and practice for real operations, providing a strong immersive environment.
About the Author: Art Kalinski
A career Naval Officer, Art Kalinski established the Navy’s first geographic information system (GIS) in the mid-1980s. Completing a post-graduate degree in GIS at the University of North Carolina, he was the Atlanta Regional Commission GIS Manager from 1993 to 2007. He pioneered the use of oblique imagery for public safety and participated in numerous disaster-response actions including GIS/imagery support of the National Guard during Hurricane Katrina; the Urban Area Security Initiative; a NIMS-based field exercise in Atlanta; and a fully manned hardware-equipped joint disaster response exercise in New York City. Kalinski retired early from ARC to join Pictometry International to direct military projects using oblique imagery, which led to him joining SPGlobal Inc. He has written articles for numerous geospatial publications, and authors a monthly column for the GeoIntelligence Insider e-newsletter aimed at federal GIS users.
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