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Keith Masback is the President of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF). He is responsible for carrying out the Foundation’s mission of promoting the geospatial intelligence tradecraft and developing a broader, more capable GEOINT Community among government, industry, academic, professional organizations and individuals whose mission focus is the development and application of geospatial intelligence to address national and international security objectives.

Prior to joining USGIF, he spent a combined 20 years as an officer in the U.S. Army, and in the government civilian service, culminating as a member of the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Gettysburg College. He completed the Post-Graduate Intelligence Program at the National Defense Intelligence College. He has also completed executive education at the Kellogg School, Northwestern University and the Elliott School, George Washington University.

Heinrich Liebing is currently the Deputy Director, Bundeswehr Geoinformation Office and Bundeswehr Geoinformation Service. He started his career in 1968 in the Bundeswehr as a temporary-career volunteer in the Air Force (1./SAM 26). From 1970-1977 he studied meteorology, later with a Bundeswehr scholarship at Kiel university (Graduate Meteorologist), followed by internship at the German Meteorological Service, Second State Examination from 1977 – 1979.

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Barry Barlow, Director, Online GEOINT Services (OGS), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Springfield, Va., is responsible for enahancing the users experience through online, on-demand GEOINT services that provide access to content, expertise and applications. OGS will enable producers to shift their production model and focus on creating new value by deepening analytical assessments. He began his professional career in 1976, at the age of 19, with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, at the Slidell Computer Complex in Slidell, La. He worked in the Systems Programming Office, supporting the Space Shuttle program. In 1978, he returned to academia to teach computer science courses, focusing on software development, system architecture, and data structures, leading to his appointment as Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern Mississippi. He left academia in 1985, and returned to the aerospace industry; as a systems engineer for E-System’s Garland Division.

In 1987, he began work on programs for the Defense Mapping Agency, subsequently the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, and worked exclusively on those programs until he left E-Systems (then Raytheon) in 1997. He relocated to the Reston area on two separate occasions (1990 and 1992), as a member of the site installation team for the Source Preparation Segment at the DMA Reston Center, and as the chief engineer for the System Test Mode environment. After completing those assignments, he served as the program manager for Raytheon for the Hydrographic Source Assessment System and the Navigation Safety System. In 1997, he returned to private industry, serving as the Director, Information Technology, for the commercial remote sensing firm, Space Imaging of Thornton, Colo., until his selection for the Defense Intelligence Senior Level (DISL) position of Chief Systems Engineer, United States Imagery and Geospatial Information Service (USIGS) for NIMA in April, 2000. He retained that position until his selection for the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service (DISES) position of Director, Systems Engineering Office, Aug. 4, 2002. Mr. Barlow also served as NGA’s Chief Architect in the Office of Strategic Transformation in July 2003, until his selection as the Director of the Acquisition Systems Office, and Program Manager for the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) in February 2005. On 28 Sep 2009, Mr. Barlow was selected by VADM Murrett to become the Director for the Acquisition Directorate, and subsequently selected as the first Director, OGS on 3 Feb 2012.

Mr. Barlow, born September 15, 1956, in Petal, Miss., earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree in computer science from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1979 and 1981, respectively. His awards include the R.H. Cold award for Computer Science, several meritorious service awards from Raytheon, E-Systems and Space Imaging, NASA and NGA. In December 2006, President George W. Bush conferred on Mr. Barlow the rank of Meritorious Executive in the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service for sustained superior accomplishments in the management of programs for the United States Government. In addition, in December 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates awarded Mr. Barlow with the Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award. He is married to the former Dina Martinez of Dallas, Texas. They have two children, Laura Elizabeth 27, and Sarah Victoria, 12, and reside in Jeffersonton, Va.

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Discussion of the role of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in supporting the expanding global defence and intelligence communities to include the areas of humanitarian assistance, safety of air and sea, and military support operations. Will include an in-depth look at how technology is changing the landscape of geospatial intelligence with demonstrations of new and emerging geospatial mobile applications.

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Colonel Kedar (John) is Commander Joint Aeronautical and Geospatial Organization, part of the Intelligence Collection Group and responsible for the delivery of ‘geo’ force elements to operations and for aeronautical information to Defence. In addition he holds functional responsibility for the RE (Geo) capability and its people spread across Defence. Educated at Norwich (King Edward VI) School, Southampton University, and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he joined the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1984. His younger days included tours in operational and training regiments, including a tour in Belize and two years with Sultan of Oman’s Engineer Regiment. The Army Survey Course and Army Staff College followed in quick succession in the early 1990s, rewarded by a joint operations appointment in Cyprus. Command tours of 14 Independent Topographic Squadron Royal Engineers and 42 Engineer (Regiment) Royal Engineers included operational deployments to the Balkans in 1996 and the Gulf in 2003. He has worked in the Defence Intelligence Staff, led Engineer-in-Chief (Army)’s Future Army Structures work and developed Defence Information Management doctrine at the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre.

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Geospatial To Counter Future Threats
Geospatial Intelligence is becoming increasingly important to decision makers. It is driven forward year by year as a result of technology, new sources of data and the passion and drive of analysts in a ‘bottom-up’ approach. As a result the geospatial community in Defence tends to look two or three years out. However, the World will change significantly in the next decades and so too will the geospatial support required by decision makers at all levels. We must start planning now. The presentation will examine how the World will change over the next 20 to 30 years based on UK MOD strategic thinking, where conflicts are likely to arise and the nature of these very conflicts. Drawing on recent operational lessons through personal experience and his analysis of the future, he develops pointers that identify how geospatial support might change and how it must develop to counter future threats. This talk is equally relevant to policy makers, industry and the Defence and Security geospatial community.

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Adam Denman manages Intermap’s business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He joined Intermap in 2008 with more than 30 years of international management experience covering international sales and business development, operations, and product development. He holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, and held senior engineering, sales and general management positions in the aerospace, defence and automotive industries, before joining Intermap, including at Visteon, Magneti Marelli and Navteq.

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Richard Smith is Force Information Manager for British Transport Police (BTP) where he has responsibility for Information Management and the strategic direction of geospatial information within the force, this, includes the technical management of the BTP Transport Security SDI Project for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Richard has over 22 years experience within the Intelligence and Geospatial arenas having spent much of his career in the Royal Air Force working in the UK and overseas primarily as an intelligence analyst, in both operational and strategic arenas. Richards is Secretary to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Geographic Information Board where he leads on Aerial Imagery.

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Col A.M. Mahapa joined the SANDF in 1996. In April 2002 was appointed as SO1 Terrain Intelligence at SA Army Engineer Formation. In February 2003 was appointed as the Officer Commanding 4 Survey and Mapping Regiment January 2009. In February 2009 Col Mahapa was promoted to the rank of Col as the Senior Staff Officer (SSO) Terrain Intelligence till date.

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John Teufert has been working as the NATO C3 Agency’s senior GeoMetOc Subject Matter Expert (SME) and GeoMetOc Group Head since 2003. Before joining NATO he worked for the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy and before that he spent several years with the WEU (later EU) Council’s Satellite Centre in Madrid, Spain, the only Pan-European Imagery-Intelligence Organisation. In his current function he is responsible for the execution of NATO’s ambitious GeoMetOc R&D program as well as NATO’s GeoMetOc systems acquisitions and implementations. In addition he and his team provide a wide variety of high level GeoMetOc technical and scientific support to all NATO bodies to succeed with their missions, including significant in-theatre support to NATO Forces in Kosovo and Afghanistan. Over the last years Mr Teufert has deployed more than 40 times into operations which allowed him to stay in close contact with the real needs of the war-fighter. His work in NATO has been recognised through the receipt of the “USGIF Geospatial Intelligence Achievement Award 2009 (Military Division)” and more recently the “JCTD Transition Manager of the year 2011” awarded by the Office of the US Secretary of Defence.

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Colonel Peter Loukes currently works for the Defence Intelligence & Security Service (DISS) as the designated Director for Intelligence Support. Peter Loukes started his military career in 1987, after finishing his Masters in History. He has held various positions since then including Lecturer on International Security and History, ADC Governor Royal Military Academy, Military Observer UNTSO, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Air Staff, Air War College, Sr. Advisor Chief of Defence and Sr. Advisor and Chief Finance Officer DISS. He was born in Deventer in 1960, is married and has three children.

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Dr. Christopher Tucker is Chairman and CEO of the MapStory Foundation and a former senior executive for technology companies ERDAS and IONIC, whose core focuses are defense and intelligence. Tucker serves on the board of directors for both the Open Geospatial Consortium and the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, as well as the Secretary of the Interior's National Geospatial Advisory Committee.

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Sanjay K Agarwalla is the CEO of Integrated Digital Systems. He has a MBA degree with specialization in Marketing. He has been passionate about GIS since the start of his career and is a GIS techno-entrepreneur. He continuously innovates GIS applications for his clients through a deep understanding of their process and a logical and practical approach. His company has implemented successful GIS applications for International Funding Agencies, Wireless Telecom Operators, Business Enterprises and Defence organizations. In recent years, he has been fascinated by the application of GIS in Defence. His company is working on creating and implementing applications in the field of Battlefield Planning, Visual Simulation, War Gaming, Sand Model and Situation/Event Database mining to facilitate better and informed decision making.

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Digital Sand Model Room: Benefits, Future and Challenges Sand Model or tables has been used for military planning and War Gaming as a field expedient and in training for military actions. This kind of classroom exercise allows model manipulation through possible scenarios in military planning. Sand Model Room is an integral part of almost all military training establishments as well as operational units of the Indian Army. Today, with improved maps, aerial and satellite images as well as high performance 3D Visualization and GIS software, Sand Model Rooms are going digital. This presentation analyses architecture of a digital Sand Model Room, its benefits, integration in overall enterprise wide geo intelligence system, its future and the challenges faced.

Major Osvaldo da Cruz Morett Netto is officer of Brazilian Army. It is Cartographic Engineer by Military Institute of Engineer of Brazilian Army (IME), Master in Cartography by the same Institute. It made part in projects to the mapping of Brazil. Nowadays, Major Morett is staff member of Geographic Service of Brazilian Army (DSG) and works in a special programme which consist in use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to map an area forest Amazon that has no appropriate cartographic information . The area of about 1,5 million square of Amazon is usually called the "cartographic blank" and the project will provide cartographic products consistent with scales 1:100,000 and 1:50,000."

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Air Commodore Mark Ashwell is currently the managing partner of MLA Consultancy Services. His expertise is in Intelligence, Command and Control and Space Operations. Previously he served 28 years In the Royal Air Force where he forged and commanded the RAF Air Battle Management Organization following in the aftermath tragic events of 9/11. As an Air Commodore he was responsible, as Director Intelligence Capability and Strategy, for the restructuring of Defence Intelligence capabilities and processes to adapt to modern, fused, multi source intelligence operations. On leaving the Air Force in 2009 he joined DigitalGlobe as Vice President International Strategy to help drive the move from imagery to insight. Mark is a graduate of the University of London and Alumni of the NATO Defence College. He is married to Alison and they live with their daughter Sophie in High Wycombe UK.

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Assymetric Warfare Geospatial Requirements to Counter Threats to Internal Security
Of the many elements that contribute to instability, and offer challenges to internal security, I will focus on examples Terrorism, Insurgency and Drugs. As Professor Keith Grint has identified each of these challenges pose a Wicked Problem. Such problems do not respond to simple solutions but require collaboration and sharing of intelligence and between people, to knit together actions that drive long term and iterative responses. Imagery provides a Geospatial Foundation upon which to bring together and fuse vital information into the knowledge and understanding necessary to react to complex challenges. As a core tenet of Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), and as the Director of NGA emphasized in her first keynote presentation, human terrain must be effectively mapped to enable patterns of activity to be understood. From this GEOINT platform anomalous behaviour may be effectively identified and used as a cue for appropriate and timely responses. Vast amounts of community sourced data are now available and need to be exploited using the GEOINT foundation to support the understanding of, and for shaping counters to, asymmetric challenges. In his work at IBM with the G2 platform, innovators such as Jeff Jonas are showing how such data can be managed and used advantageously. Combining such processing with the power of the visual platform of GEOINT offers the potential to build environments where knowledge can be shared and exploited successfully. In such places effective sensing of, and reaction to, the Black Swan of evolving asymmetric challenges may, as recent events in Abbottabad appear to attest, be possible?

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Captain Ibrahim was an Air College fellow for about two years (1998-2000), and then he joined the UAE Air Force Space Reconnaissance Center in Year 2000. He earned a Diploma in Image Processing and Analysis from Inha University, South Korea, 2002, and recently he joined Abu Dhabi University to get a B. SC. in Information Technology. He worked first for a few years with IRS 1C-1D and Kompsat satellite data reception and processing, and then, since 2004, he worked as a manager of the imagery production unit at the Falcon Universal Station of the Space Reconnaissance Center. He had experience with image processing and GIS software application products. He attended a number of specialized training courses both locally and overseas and actively participated in some international and local space and geospatial intelligence events

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Commercial Satellite Remote Sensing and Geo-Intelligence
One of the most striking space based Earth Observation developments of the past decade has been the growth of private sector developers and users of satellite imagery. The appearance of commercial observation systems has ended government monopoly on such information but they also broadened the options for government and private users around the world. The military services have come to rely intensely on space-based assets for imagery Intelligence. The military uses both dedicated military and commercial capabilities for many of their needs and it is obvious that Geo-spatial Intelligence is not marginal to the military; it is integral to their operations. The introduction of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery and advanced imagery analysis software has greatly expanded the military’s use of commercial imagery. Although these satellites are, for most users, under foreign civilian and government agencies’ control, the Falcon Ground Station was an early adapter by establishing the first regional Ikonos Ground station in 1999. As a result, the growing commercial presence in space is drawn, inexorably, into the “picture”, because business and the military share some of the operating environment, and even some of the tasks. As the resolution of space borne sensors increases, so is the utility of the data. The broad area coverage, agility and frequent revisit capabilities of these satellite sensors enables to monitor numerous areas of interest simultaneously. In fact this ability is not limited to war fighting use, since many of the techniques used to support military operations have in fact supported disaster relief and humanitarian operations as well.

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Joerg F. Herrmann is Senior Manager at Astrium GmbH, Germany. He initiated the commercialization of SAR satellite remote sensing in Germany through the TerraSAR program and served as founding CEO of the TerraSAR-X service entity, Infoterra GmbH, from 2000 to 2009. During his 25 years in space industry he worked in system engineering and design, program management, and marketing and sales. His educational background is in engineering and business administration.

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SteveWallach joined GeoEye in January 2011. Hehas over 30 years of experience primarily in the defense, intelligence and civil communities. He is responsible foridentifyingnew product opportunities, leading their integration into GeoEye’s portfolio and developing detailed business plans as part of the Company’s product rollout strategy. Wallach’s career includes more than 32 years with the NGA and its predecessor organizations, where he held a variety ofleadership positions in analysis and production, research and development, and operational support areas. Wallach holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Earth Science from Northwest Missouri State University.He completed a master’s degree in Computer Resource Management at Webster University and is a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and Senior Acquisition Course from the Defense Acquisition University.

Stephen Wood has served as the Vice President of DigitalGlobe’s Analysis Center since January, 2011. A career imagery analytic professional with 25 years of satellite imagery experience, Stephen was previously responsible for DigitalGlobe’s US Defense Sales and Business Operations since January, 2007. He joined DigitalGlobe in July, 2000 after nearly fourteen years with the Central Intelligence Agency and has held a range of defense sales and marketing positions at DigitalGlobe. Prior to joining DigitalGlobe, Stephen served from 1998 – 2000 as a Special Assistant to the Executive Director, CIA. In this position, he was instrumental in developing and organizing the Agency’s Visual Information Initiative (VII), a multi-million dollar program to acquire, store, and exploit digital imagery data at CIA. He also helped provide imagery analytic expertise and insights for CIA senior leadership to enhance interaction with the former National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA).