Complete this certificate program to achieve an understanding of the latest solutions, techniques, and practices available for many GEOINT workflows to help meet stringent demands for real-time decision making. With industry-leading personnel at the forefront of the program, participants will gain invaluable insight to the dynamic future of defense and intelligence. Register now to participate in the Geospatial Intelligence Certificate Program!
Participants must attend all mandatory sessions and at least three optional sessions. You can download a printable session agenda.
IGNITE Your M.App Experience (Mandatory)
We believe your experience matters – and our experiences are refined and improved through collaboration with imagination and innovation. This year, we set out on a journey of igniting ideas – and providing a means to create and deploy solutions from these ideas. As the cloud becomes ubiquitous, you have the ability to make real-time a reality – accessing the data and tools you need on-demand. Hexagon Geospatial provides a platform for unique experiences, getting to the crux of the problem solving. Globally, inspired partners have joined us in creating an ecosystem of concepts that are being refined into dynamic information experiences. We are fostering a new community of developers, while also providing market access. Join Hexagon President Mladen Stojic as he shares visionary approaches to solving challenging business problems from around the world. During this time, we will celebrate several customer and partner stories. This keynote will also include the debut of the Power Portfolio 2016, provisioning you with fresh, interactive workflows that give new form shaping the information you need. We will also reveal the 20 Finalists who will move forward in IGNITE, our competition around six core themes for protecting our future and providing true sustainability.
Emerging Technologies to Counter the Changing Global Threat (Mandatory)
As threats continue to arise from non-state actors, lone wolf terrorism, and other non-traditional aggressors, the effective use of sophisticated technologies will prove advantageous to defense and intelligence organizations. Attend this session to hear from U.S. National Security Intelligence Expert, David Shedd, on ways to modernize how your organization analyzes intelligence and what emerging technologies are crucial to counter ongoing threats. Director Shedd will also share his outlook on the future of global intelligence based on his vast experience from over 30 years in the industry.
Bringing GEOINT to the Cloud (Mandatory)
Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) plays an integral role in helping US defense and intelligence organizations migrate their geospatial operations to a cloud-based architecture. IGS has developed a solution platform that adopts Hexagon’s Smart M.App technology and deploys it through Web GLT to provide cloud-based access to a variety of versatile and powerful geospatial processes that replace desktop functionality. Attend this session to learn details on the system architecture, including an overview of the cloud-based exploitation services, the web-based authoring environment for developing services, other mission-critical components, and lessons learned from the ongoing implementations.
Building a Better Analyst: From GIS and Imagery Analysis to Web Application Development (Mandatory)
Being a Geospatial Analyst in today’s fast-paced environment requires more than just an understanding of the theories of geography, imagery analysis, data management, and geospatial analysis. Today’s missions require the analyst to apply tools and concepts to new problem sets, deal with increasingly larger and more complex sets of data, and anticipate downstream challenges. Attend this session to expand the breadth of your geospatial expertise by learning when and how to automate workflows through the development of geospatial models in ERDAS IMAGINE; discover innovative approaches to working with imagery, LiDAR, and radar data; easily integrate multiple sources for broader situational understanding; and then develop custom applications within the Smart M.App platform to support dynamic visualization, geoprocessing, data analytics, and task-specific workflows.
What’s New in the Producer Suite
The Producer Suite of the Power Portfolio empowers you to collect, process, analyze and understand raw geospatial data. GeoMedia, ImageStation, ERDAS IMAGINE, and IMAGINE Photogrammetry are core products that extract even more value from your geospatial data with the latest enhancements. Learn about the 120+ brand new spatial model operators added to versions of GeoMedia and ERDAS IMAGINE, in the area of measurement, feature, input/output, photogrammetry, point cloud, vector processing, SIPS, Terrain and Surface, control logic, etc. Find out about PostGIS, WMTS, and the new Explorer Window in GeoMedia and how ImageStation workflows have been drastically improved. ERDAS IMAGINE brings you to the forefront of image processing by introducing new sensor models (KazEOSat, Sentinel, GoKTurk), much enhanced features such as Zonal Change Detection, and critical behind-scene services to Smart M.App. Attend this session to discover the full value available to you!
Exposing NMCA (National Mapping & Cadastral Agency) data through Hexagon Information Services
As one of the first National Mapping Agencies in the World with over 230 years of experience in creating and publishing highly detailed data, over the past 20 years OS have embraced the digital age and responded to the accelerating pace of change that comes with it. To meet the future challenge OS is now collaborating with global platform and information service providers and with other mapping and cadastral agencies, and OS ‘tradecraft’ is increasingly being used in IoT, SMART and analytical solutions alongside more traditional uses in a wide range of markets. At HxGN Live OS will share how they are transforming their business through partnering; changing not only the technology applied for the collection and analysis of geospatial data, but also evolving to provide smarter and more actionable intelligence to meet the needs of a new era of location data users.
Smarter Change Detection with ERDAS IMAGINE
Change makes geospatial data out-of-date almost as fast as the data can be collected. Property appraisers, forestry workers, and the defence industry all rely on timely and accurate identification of change. This session will teach you the basics of change detection and introduce you to ERDAS IMAGINE’s semi-automated zonal (area) change detection. Learn via hands-on training how this unique technique processes change on an area by area (zones) basis, how to prioritise the likelihood of change, and how to complete the final review process in record time.
End-to-End UAV Solutions on the Cloud or the Desktop
Fascinated about UAS data and its potential for your business, but uncertain how to get good products? Join this session to learn how to efficiently derive high-quality geoproducts, such as orthomosaics, point clouds and digital surface models, on the desktop or on the cloud. GeoApp.UAS makes cloud-based photogrammetric processing easy, affordable and reliable. With a minimum of input parameters, you can derive value-added products that can be used immediately online as a web service or downloaded for use in your desktop GIS. For those that wish to stick to workflows on the desktop, IMAGINE UAV is an add-on that allows you to process UAV-data within ERDAS IMAGINE. In the professional version of ERDAS IMAGINE, all necessary functions are available as Spatial Model operators. As such, the model workflow can be embedded into business-relevant solutions including volumetric calculations, change detections and so on. Discover these streamlined workflows that generate exceptional products from UAV data, so you can understand which one is best for you!
Answering Customer Questions with Hexagon Smart M.App
Join this Hexagon Smart M.App session to get familiar with real use cases of Smart M.Apps implemented by Hexagon Geospatial Partners so far. Take a chance to ask about the approach, the technicalities and customizations in use. Learn on how to address Customer Questions using Smart M.Apps.
Demystifying SGM and the Point Cloud with ERDAS IMAGINE
With the latest release of GeoMedia Smart Client the usability and user experience is brought to a new level. An all new graphical workflow designer allows you to design your workflow, without any deep knowledge of XML coding. Also the Style Editor gets a big update. With the deprecation of the Java based Style Editor we built an editor based on the latest web technologies. Furthermore, the usability is increased by offering templates to get your style done much quicker than before. All in all, there are some other improvements too. OGC secured services (WMS / WFS) are now supported as well as native support of them. You can continue to use GeoMedia WebMap, but you don’t have to anymore. The latest of the supported database engines is PostgreSQL. With the version 16 you can connect to your data stored in that kind of database. With this release it is also possible to get an ECW displayed, which is not in the same coordinate system as your project is.
Fully Automated Mapping of Natural Forest Development Phases from LiDAR data for Habitat Monitoring
In Europe, there is an initiative to establish a transnational network of nature reserves focusing on species conservation. Natural forests – that is, forests not intended for economic use – are a keystone for designating such areas. Developed for a state forest department in Germany, a fully automated workflow for mapping forest development phases from LiDAR data was built using the IMAGINE Spatial Modeler. This powerful component of ERDAS IMAGINE solves geoprocessing challenges in the most efficient way—by removing the traditional dialog-driven workflow and instead streamlining a customized, repeatable means of getting the answer. The highly sophisticated model developed for the state forest department processes both raster and vector data, to ultimately provide objective and ready-to-use maps for decision makers. Join us in this session to learn about this powerful workflow, and see its transition into a Hexagon Smart M.App.
System for Multisensor Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) Analysis, Interpretation and Data Production in Algeria
Utilizing the various software of Hexagon Geospatial Power Portfolio allows business partner GEOSYSTEMS France to deliver specific solutions required by their customers. By partnering with EDISOFT, a Portuguese Defense Integrator, GEOSYSTEMS France developed a comprehensive Multisensor Image Interpretation and Analysis System, based on the solid COTS platform with the Power Portfolio. The rich functionalities of ERDAS Imagine, Geomedia and Motion Video Analyst are combined, linked to an Intelligence database and controlled by a production and dissemination management system. Listen to GEOSYSTEMS France deliver examples of how they create flexible and affordable solutions in defense, with a successful implementation in an emerging country.
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