Dr. Rakesh Malhotra

Fayetteville State University

Fayetteville, NC

Geospatial is not what it used to beSocial media is a great leveler of information

and it can be extended with GEO (GeoSocial)Training is important. As more intelligence is

conduced in the realm of open source, what’s out there and how it is used has to be drilled into everyoneGenerals, leaders, foot soldiers

SmartphoneAugmented RealityGoogle VisionSocial MediaDrones, and other weaponsRemote SensingGIS(All these have enhanced the role of Geospatial

techniques in today’s defense. All these are in some way or other, geospatial tools)

Connectivity (social terrain)Open Source (knowledge terrain)

Limited or no geographical boundaries

Proposal – Social media a key component of the new GEO….GeoSocial

Gang Uses Facebook to Rob Houses | PCWorldTweeting photos of your vacation

Information is not restricted to a select few. Even an innocuous post like “packing, leaving tomorrow” can be worth it’s electronic weight in gold

Pieces of informationIf I scan the FB page for the whole battalion

(can I predict where they will be)?What has changed?

It is not that people are more prone to sharing or gossiping

It is just that there is more information easily available and accessible to more people

Technology has changed everythingRailway bookingsReconnaissanceGIS/GPSwww.safecity.in (crowd sourcing)How we live, communicate, entertain, travel,

even how we thinkSo why not how we manage intelligence?

DatabaseBig dataData mining

Geo(data)Extends the database systemExpands the knowledge base

Social mediaGeoSocial

Extends the social media

New Geo requires new training that integrates all kinds of terrains (geo, knowledge, and social)

Geospatial is central to GEOINTELLIGENCE (not the other way around)

GeoSocial is the future …everything will be geotagged images (already done), tweets, facebook updates (all will have a geotag)

Certification will play an important role in the future

An op-ed in The Hindu (http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/bridging-the-soldierscholar-divide/article4778994.ece) talks about the knowledge terrain

June 4, 2013, Mr. Harsh V. Pant, King’s College London

Big Brother! Why is US spying on India

The Economic Times

June 12, 2013, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Foreign Policy Analyst