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6 Current Training Programs
Pages 77-88

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From page 77...
... Some universities also ment agencies and private companies, and workshops provide other types of skills and experience useful for and short courses offered by professional and scientific producing geospatial intelligence, such as the ability to societies. This chapter describes education and train- think and work across discipline boundaries, to combine ing programs relevant to geospatial intelligence offered scientific knowledge with practical workforce skills, or by these diverse organizations (Task 3)
From page 78...
... . Core skills phasizes geographic information design and Internet covered in these classes include the understanding of and World Wide Web spatial data applications.
From page 79...
... North Carolina State University Mason University is tailored to military or government o ­ ffers a professional science master's degree in Geocontractors and emphasizes training to solve real- spatial Information Science and Technology, which is world problems. George Mason University is located aimed at the development, management, and applicanear a cluster of federal employers in the Washington, tion of new technology to understand and manage D.C., region, which is attractive to workers seeking spatial phenomena, such as economic development, part-time graduate training while remaining em- disease, emergency planning and response, and envi­ ployed.
From page 80...
... Obtaining a certificate geospatial intelligence issues, such as those that condoes not mean that a person is legally "registered" in a cern coupled human-environmental systems (e.g., the profession. Registration usually requires the applicant national security implications of climate change, ecoto pass a rigorous standardized test administered by nomic globalization, poverty, and transborder migrastate-legislated authorities.
From page 81...
... Games programs at universities also have an generated data to drive development of sensor systems interdisciplinary element. A good example is the USC and advances in sensor materials and devices, and vice joint Games Program, which was created by Michael versa.
From page 82...
... Students are taught the basics of social network analysis and the advanced methods integral to dynamic network analysis, and the program of study is tailored through electives that can be taken in any of the colleges at Carnegie Mellon University. Special attention is placed on geo-enabled network analytics.
From page 83...
... Building the USC joint Games Program required Summer Programs time, effort, and courage. The question of how and when to support a new area is difficult for most uni- Advanced techniques and methods are commonly versities.
From page 84...
... Such training is GIS, and virtual reality databases. Other allied courses important for geospatial intelligence, given the rapid in the program include analytical fundamentals for advances in geospatial technologies and the need for geomatics, adjustment of geospatial observations, cooperational knowledge, experience, and tactics, which ordinate systems and conformal mapping, advanced cannot be fully taught in academic settings.
From page 85...
... ticularly in the areas of forecasts, GEOINT fusion, and geospatial analysis. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND The NWS operates three training facilities, includ- NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS ing the Warning Decision Training Branch in Norman, Oklahoma.
From page 86...
... For example, the Cartography and Geographic training courses on social networks are held regularly Information Society (CaGIS) offers cartography and at the main International Network for Social Network GIS-related short courses, such as the 1-week course Analysis meeting and sometimes at meetings of the
From page 87...
... .15 • Professional science master's program aimed at producing graduates with a mix of scientific expertise SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS and practical workforce skills (e.g., North Carolina State University's professional science master's program The third task of the committee was to describe in geospatial information science and technology)
From page 88...
... . universities while receiving full salary and benefits (e.g., • Summer programs, short courses, and work- NGA's Vector Study Program)


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