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Geospatial Data, Information, and Intelligence: Principles and Application Unabridged Edition
Author(s): Aaron Jabbour (Author), Renny Babiarz (Author)
- Publisher: Artech House
- Publication Date: 31 May 2023
- Edition: Unabridged
- Language: English
- Print length: 262 pages
- ISBN-10: 1630819794
- ISBN-13: 9781630819798
Book Description
An original framework for interpreting geospatial data and information: the Observe, Analyze, Communicate (OAC) Framework. With a two-level approach to analyzing geospatial data: both a broad information refinement method that transforms geospatial data into information, and more specific tradecraft techniques for both visual and spatial analysis. The book highlights the importance of location for human experience in the everyday world and introduces spatial thinking as a foundation and the location mindset as an approach. Exploring the outsized importance of accurate visual learning in a world in which we are increasingly inundated with visual information and shows how the human eye can be both our most powerful sensor as well as a source of bias and uncertainty. It presents the emergence of digital geospatial data, information, and analysis, and shows how the pairing of visual information with precise locational information anchors human attention and provides an antidote to disorientation. This book is a practical resource for students and practitioners alike. It serves as a textbook for classroom beginners and as a desktop reference for professionals in their day-to-day geospatial efforts.
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About the Author
Renny Babiarz, PhD, is Vice President of Analysis and Operations for AllSource Analysis, where he manages and contributes to geospatial analysis projects for government, non-government, and commercial customers. He is also an adjunct faculty member for the Johns Hopkins MS in Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Program. Renny has a PhD in political science specializing in China’s nuclear weapons program (Johns Hopkins University), an MA in Asian Studies specializing in China (University of Hawaii at Manoa), and certificates in Chinese language and GEOINT analysis. Additionally, Renny worked in public service as a GEOINT analyst for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and has private sector research experience with science application International Corporation (SAIC) and AllSource Analysis. Aaron Jabbour has enjoyed a decades-long career as a geospatial analyst, geospatial team leader, geospatial supervisor, and geospatial information officer. Mr. Jabbour has worked for numerous public safeties, national defense, and national security-focused organizations in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Jabbour has performed a wide variety of geospatial analysis and operations, spanning the tactical, operational, and strategic level, and has won numerous awards for analytic tradecraft. Mr. Jabbour has traveled the world in search of the most perplexing puzzles and difficult geospatial challenges and strives to share those lessons learned with others. Mr. Jabbour has also lectured at geospatial conferences, instructed hundreds of students in various organizations, and will stop whatever he is doing to mentor an employee or listen inquisitively to anyone with experience. Mr. Jabbour has a passion for all geospatial things and finds it thrilling to solve where and see the spark in othen others who do the same.
