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GMU C4I Center Seminar

Co-sponsor: Department of Geography

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Bring the Power of GIS to Support the Analyst

Linda Tischer

Friday, February 23, 2007 Science & Technology II Bldg, Room 320 2:00 pm

ABSTRACT

Geospatial analysis using a GIS has much to offer the traditional intelligence analyst as an alternate analysis, but in order for us to help the analyst take advantage of geospatial analysis, we must recognize certain facts and requirements, ask and answer important questions, and avoid known pitfalls:

• understand and accept the analyst
• help him or her become geospatially literate
• make it easy for him or her to look at spatial information in a
  geospatial context and frame analytic questions
• make it easy for him or her to share these questions with colleagues
  and with geospatial analysts
• make it easy for him or her to view the results of geospatial analysis in a
  comfortable context
• support and source every piece of information that goes into a geospatial
  analysis; and
• provide a standard product that is portable and easily viewable by
  colleagues and decision makers without the need for special software or
  licenses