On January 21-23, 2014 London became the venue to the annual Defence Geospatial Intelligence (DGI 2014) conference on geospatial intelligence and geospatial technology. Specialists of ScanEx Research & Development Center attended the event as guests. For 10 years this conference is the world’s largest event in geospatial intelligence technology. More than 800 representatives from leading companies-suppliers of geoinformation solutions and over 400 senior defence and security executives from 45 countries attended the conference. “Earth from Space” magazine is a media partner of the conference.
The main topics of the conference were threats to national security, anti-terrorism actions, cyber security, control over the situation in the oceans and coastal areas, as well as geospatial solutions in real time monitoring of the Arctic environment, creation of online information environment for interdepartmental and coalition interactions; ensuring information supremacy, information strategy and policy and new processing technology. Discussions were especially focused on Snowden revelations and their impact on legal and technological aspects of intelligence agencies’ activities.
– Participation in the DGI 2014 allowed us to become familiar with modern trends in the development of military geoinformatics, including those associated with the big data processing, cloud architecture, integrated processing of data from different sources (multi-INT) and the activity based intelligence (ABI) technology – said the Deputy General Director of ScanEx RDC Alexei Kucheiko, who visited this event. The lessons learned will be used by company specialists in operational monitoring of emergencies, which has been carried out for many years already for the Russian Ministry of Emergency.
Major companies sponsoring the event were the leading developers in the defense geoinformatics: ESRI, IBM, HP, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Operators of satellite systems, such as e-GEOS, DigitalGlobe, Airbus Defence & Space, exactEarth, as well as companies specializing in analytic data processing – IHS, Lusiad, Helyx, Overwatch and others.
DGI 2014 conference illustrated that integrated operational methods of large heterogeneous data streams processing in combination with the new tools of interdisciplinary analysis are current trends in geoinformatics. In general, geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) is becoming an important component in modern armies support, particularly in the conditions of military budgets reduction, asymmetric nature of combat operations and high price of soldier losses on the battlefield.
More details about the DGI 2014 conference results will be available soon on the pages of the “Earth from Space” magazine.
