What Is Geoint

What is GEOINT

GEOINT’s purpose is to provide geospatial (georeferenced) information and intelligence to commanders and staffs to support planning and operations. This is accomplished through various forms of data management and visualization created by services as well as the exploitation and analysis of imagery.

What can GEOINT do at the BCT level for the S2

GEOINT cells focus on converging, correlating, and analyzing imagery, IMINT, and geospatial information to create products or display timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence, thus providing a combat advantage to battlefield commanders.

Centralized GEOINT that focuses on fusing intelligence data into GEOINT data layering production for command, control, and production coordination. Synchronized production, reducing potential product or mission duplication. Improved collaboration of intelligence and geospatial analysis, enabling advanced, combined, multiple discipline, three- and four-dimensional, and GEOINT production capabilities. A data rich and unified COP for the operational environment and computing environments facilitated by the management of a standard and sharable geospatial foundation (SSGF).

As well as processing, data management is vitally important. The GEOINT imagery analyst and/or geospatial engineer manages the GEOINT background to create a COP and the CIP for all information system users.

Command relationships (best practices how should the GEOINT Cell operate)

GEOINT cells enable the understanding of spatial and temporal relationships across the operational environment. GEOINT cells can query, filter, and retrieve a variety of combat information, such as spot reports, significant activities, reconnaissance reports, and patrol debriefs. GEOINT imagery analysts and geospatial engineers are able to push GEOINT products and data down to mounted or dismounted personnel for use by forces conducting direct and indirect combat activities. GEOINT imagery analysts and...