Location Intelligence and Business Geographics

If you have over 60 companies in the same geographic area offering solutions in geospatial technology, cybersecurity and energy management and you ask them to work together to prevent the next terrorist attack, could they do it? The GEO Huntsville Conference (Huntsville, AL) offered that...

Local governments have been quite successful in capitalizing on the applications of geospatial technology to improve citizen services and recognize savings, and businesses across industries can benefit from following their lead.  This article is a quick look at how web mapping is helping...

The Spatial Industry Business Association (SIBA) of Australia and New Zealand has published its annual report. What is SIBA? "The Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA) is the peak industry body representing businesses that provide services and products in location intelligence, remote...

Here are various sources to track Hurricane Sandy as it approaches the east coast of the United States: Weather Channel - Storm Surge - New York City Google Crisis Maps - Storm Tracker NOAA National Hurricane Center - Storm Surge - East Coast NOAA National Hurricane Center - Probable...

Geodata has many applications in the insurance sector, ranging from risk management and determining insurance premiums to carrying out reporting activities. Christopher Guider of GfK GeoMarketing uses maps of Japan to unravel some of the more challenging issues of the insurance industry, showing...

A survey of companies that employ geospatial works reveals U.S. organizations’ current and future hiring plans.

Yellowfin's James Lachlan provides an overview of the market research that has been published by Gartner, Ventana Research and others on the applications of geospatial technology with other enterprise applications.

In back to back presentations at the 2012 GEOINT Symposium in Orlando, Florida, two key military intelligence officers echoed the same theme: Are we keeping pace with the demands of war and terrorism in the 21st Century? Air Chief Marshall Sir Stuart Peach, Commander, Joint Forces Command for...

Rob Carey, the Deputy CIO for the Department of Defense and Al Tarasuik, the CIO for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) discussed a fundamentally  transformational effort:  creating a single IT architecture for the intelligence community (IC). The reason? Removing...

First, Jim Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is a "geo guy." If only more agencies and private companies had his vision there would be little thought as to how much growth the geospatial industry would see. Second, the man speaks with so much perspicacity. It's unlikely the...