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29 November 2007, 8:46am
Vice Admiral Robert B. Murrett, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the world’s largest geospatial intelligence and GIS organisation, has confirmed he will give a Guest Keynote Address at DGI 2008. He will immediately follow Major General John Rose MBE, Director General of Intelligence Collection at the UK MoD, who is opening the conference.
DGI 2008 is Europe’s annual geospatial intelligence conference and is taking place in London on 21-24 January 2008.
WHAT OTHER CASE STUDIES CAN YOU LEARN FROM?
At DGI 2008 you will find the most comprehensive gathering of senior GIS and geospatial intelligence professionals from the widest variety of defence and government agencies around the world, all sharing their experiences with you. Case studies presented include:
Humanitarian operations in the Darfur region of Sudan;
Security for the 2012 London Olympic Games;
Reconstruction operations in Afghanistan;
Monitoring global climate change and the threat of environmental disaster;
Elections monitoring in the Congo;
Flood prediction in the UK;
Monitoring arms control treaties and managing the global nuclear threat;
Improving crime incident response times in Finland;
Monitoring the pollution from the MSC Napoli Cargo Ship disaster.
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