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Author O'Connor, Jack

Title A Short Introduction to Geospatial Intelligence
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (187 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- The Challenge of Defining Geospatial Intelligence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1 The Genome of GEOINT -- Envisioning Behind the Iron Curtain -- Challenges to Discovery -- Discovery -- Recording -- Comprehending -- Jam Session -- Tracking -- Unforeseen Intelligence Community Reactions -- An Unintended Benefit -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Envisioning -- Introduction -- Imola, Or How Da Vinci Taught a Tyrant to See Differently
Elevation and Technology, Or Seeing Like Da Vinci -- Elevation and Photography-Seeing Differently From Da Vinci -- Ubiquitous Envisioning, Or Enabling Nearly Everyone to See as Da Vinci Did -- Invisible Envisioning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Discovery -- Introduction -- Discovery -- Mapping the Invisible -- A Permanent Bird's-Eye View -- The Traits of a New Military Profession -- Interwar Discoveries -- Warning From Discovery -- Auschwitz: Discovering What Cannot Be Envisioned -- Krasnoyarsk -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Recording -- Introduction
Recording-The Work Before the Real Work -- The Birth of Analog Metadata -- Measuring Urgency -- Looking Backwards to Get Ahead -- The Encyclopedia Meets the Computer -- Visual Recording -- Speed, Diplomacy, and Atrocity -- Participatory and Voluntary Recording -- Algorithmic Recording: Computers Start to Look -- The Challenge of Motion Imagery -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Comprehending -- Introduction -- Photographic Interpretation of Combat Begins -- The Elements of Comprehending -- Cartography and Precision -- The Peenemunde Discoveries and Precision Measurement
Inferential Comprehending of V-Weapons Launch Sites -- Cold War Comprehension -- Incremental Comprehending -- Delayed Comprehending -- The Cuban Missile Crisis and Incomplete Comprehending -- Iraq: A Lack of Comprehending -- Y2K: The Crisis That Did Not Happen -- India: Denied Comprehending -- Precluding Comprehending -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Tracking -- Introduction -- Tracking -- The SCUD Hunt -- Bosnia and Global War Against Terrorism -- Forensic Tracking -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Contemporary Geospatial Intelligence -- Introduction -- Ukraine
Climate Change Or Global Warming -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 Future Issues for GEOINT -- Introduction -- Human Software Development -- Working the Seams -- Attention Deficit Reorder -- Miniaturization -- Global GEOINT -- Commoditization -- Collection as Analysis -- Precision -- Acceleration -- Continuous Ubiquity -- Mobile Geospatial Intelligence -- A Final Question -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary This book explains the newest form of intelligence used by governments, commercial organizations, and individuals
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000988048
100098804X
9781000988024
1000988023