USGIF video from the opening session at GEOINT 2009

From designnetx's YouTube description: The GeoEye-1 satellite sensor captured Irans hidden nuclear site under construction near Qom in September of 2009. To view original story with high resolution satellite images go here http://news.satimagingcorp.com/2009/1... Hidden in the hills, construction was started at the uranium enrichment site during 2006. The complex is on a military base controlled by Iran, making access difficult. But through information from satellite imagery, Iranian dissidents and other human intelligence, a sufficiently detailed picture was built up to convince investigators that Iran was preparing to make nuclear fuel there. The IKONOS satellite sensor collected this 0.8m Satellite Image on February 5, 2000 showing pre-construction and imagery from the GeoEye-1 satellite (below) shows present construction. GeoEye-1 image taken on September 26, 2009 from 423 miles in space as Virginia based GeoEyes newest satellite, GeoEye-1, moved from north to south over the Middle East at a speed of 7.5 km per second. According to IHS Janes, who did the analysis of the imagery, the imagery shows a well fortified facility with a main entrance, which was seen under construction early this year, and is now a building that abuts and provides access into the mountain. Small round ventilation shafts in the center of the mountain are near completion. Quarry equipment, a surface-to-air missile site, and more construction equipment surround the mountain. This facility is still under construction. The small-scale site discovered near Qom is meant to house no more than 3,000 centrifuges. The enriching machines in Qom facility will produce nuclear fuel, which could possibly be further enriched into material for atomic warheads. The global standoff over Irans nuclear program began in 2002 with the discovery of two large nuclear facilities in Natanz and Arak. Tehran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes to generate electricity. Iran says it has built the facility inside a mountain next to a military site to protect its nuclear activities in case of an attack by the US or Israel. Irans Existing Nuclear Sites Arak Heavy Water Plant A 40 MWt heavy water moderated research reactor which should be ready for commissioning in 2014. Natanz Uranium Enrichment Plant This once secret site was one of the two exposed by Alireza Jafarzadeh in August, 2002. Under the terms of Irans safeguards agreement, Iran was under no obligation to report the existence of the site while it was still under construction. There are currently approximately 7,000 centrifuges installed at Natanz, of which 5,000 are producing low enriched uranium. Isfahan- Uranium Conversion Plant A nuclear research facility that currently operates four small nuclear research reactors, all supplied by China. The Uranium Conversion Facility at Isfahan converts yellowcake into uranium hexafluoride. As of late October 2004, the site is 70% operational with 21 of 24 workshops completed. There is also a Zirconium Production Plant (ZPP) located nearby that produces the necessary ingredients and alloys for nuclear reactors. Bushehr Nuclear Power Station Construction was completed in March 2009. The plant is planned to begin production by August 22, 2009 and would be brought up to full capacity by the end of March 2010. Governments and private enterprises throughout the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, are quickly learning the value of Remote Sensing and GIS in maximizing security programs. This type of information can enable local governments to better assess and understand how to develop programs to save lives, protect property and enhance the future economic stability of their communities. The current threats to a country range from incidents of terrorism and information attacks on critical infrastructure to the potential use of weapons of mass destruction. Each one of these threats could cause massive casualties and disruption to a country. By combining satellite imagery and terrain elevation databases from high resolution satellite images from satellite sensors such as GeoEye-1, WorldView-2, Worldview-1, QuickBird, IKONOS and SPOT-5 realistic and true-color 3D terrain visualizations can be created of any location on Earth for flight training, battlefield management, mission rehearsal, research, and other activities which provide vital information for aerial mission planners and command information systems

This video from IDV Solutions shows how Visual Fusion Suite® supplies enterprises with the tools for better and faster decision making. Scott Caulk, Product Manager at IDV, demonstrates how Visual Fusion capitalizes on the location and time aspects of information, geospatially enables enterprise data, serves as a geospatial CMS, complements in-house GIS, and ultimately brings greater levels of insight to the enterprise.

The original promo from Layar as they launched the Layar browser...over 1 million views!

Remote sensing and GIS 101 with Dr. Kelley Crews-Meyer of the University of Texas. Dr. Crews-Meyer's research includes geographic information science, remote sensing, land use / land cover change, human-environment interactions, environmental policy, global tropics especially Thailand, Andean South America.