Abstract

GeoInt for the Net Centric Enterprise

Kaushik Chakraborty
Vice President - Asia Pacific
ERDAS
India



Abstract
National military and intelligence communities are increasingly challenged by the proliferation of structured databases of individuals, organizations, targets, sensor records and electronic transactions of any kind; unstructured information (intelligence, diplomatic, and military cables; World Wide Web Content; email; and other documents), and spatial data sources (maps, features, and coverages). Historically, data processing has been largely constrained between these three classes of data & information. The ability to easily cross-exploit structured, unstructured, and spatial data in near real time, and in a way that performs at enterprise-scales, has largely been absent. This is a problem if National military and intelligence communities are going to be able to anticipate and react in near real time to emerging threats. A geospatial system meets the full spectrum of an organization’s requirements, transform geospatial data into information useful for decision making processes. The specific components and capabilities builtinto geospatial business systems include authoring – Transforming source data into products, including orthos, terrain, features, 3D data etc.