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compared to their peers a few decades ago. Moreover, NGA scientists and analysts use imagery and new programs in universities are beginning to yield stugeospatial information to describe, assess, and visually dents with knowledge across multiple fields, potentially depict physical features and geographically referenced bringing new approaches to geospatial intelligence.
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The graduates entering the workforce and (2) individuals workshop considered 10 subject areas, including NGA's currently employed in occupations that require similar five core areas and five crosscutting themes that are knowledge and/or skills.
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fusion -- the aggregation, integration, and conflation of geospatial data across time and space with the goal of removing the effects of data measurement systems and facilitating spatial analysis and synthesis across information sources. Crowdsourcing -- a process in which individuals gather and analyze information and complete tasks over the Internet, often using mobile devices such as cellular phones.
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For aircraft in the mid-1950s enabled detailed maps of Task 4, the committee identified a short list of actions, military bases, shipyards, and other strategic targets to of varying scope, that NGA can take to help build a be made, revealing, for example, the presence of Soviet skilled geospatial intelligence workforce in the future. medium-range ballistic missiles in Cuba in 1962 (e.g., Richelson, 1999)
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defined an Earth-centered orientation system and formed the basis of current global positioning systems 1966 Launch of the Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite, the first dedicated satellite for geodetic studies 1974 First electronic dissemination of near-real-time, near-original-quality overhead imagery to support rapid targeting and assessment of strategic threats 1978 Launch of the first four Global Positioning System satellites, which enabled accurate measurements of position, velocity, and time 1994 Presidential directive PDD-23 directed the National Imagery and Mapping Agency to acquire commercial satellite data 1995 Unmanned aerial vehicles began taking streaming video during reconnaissance flights 2000 The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission began to acquire elevation data over about 80 percent of the Earth's surface using interferometric synthetic aperture radar 2005 Surface warships began to navigate using digital nautical charts 2006 First automatic construction of the three-dimensional world from diverse sources of photographs and images SOURCES: Day et al.
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and civil uses of the Global Positioning System. NGA employs several thousand scientists and ana- ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT lysts, who acquire and analyze imagery and other geospatial information and deliver information products, This report examines the supply of experts in 10 services, and geospatial intelligence to policy makers, geospatial intelligence areas, gaps between the supply military decision makers, warfighters, and others.
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Chapter 5 matches the university curricula and degree programs in the core supply of experts to NGA's needs, considering gaps in and emerging areas (Appendix A) , descriptions of disciplinary knowledge and analytical skills, as well as scientist and analyst positions at NGA (Appendix B)
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