Geospatial Information Officer
Encyclopedia
Geospatial information officer (GIO) is the head of geospatial
information technology
within a civilian, business, government and/or military organizations.
Due to cost saving issues, many civilian, business, government and military organizations took the chief information officer
concept and created the Geospatial Information Officer. Recent increased use of geospatially oriented data for civilian, business, government and military, have required cost efficiencies in collection, production and analysis.
In March 2008, the U.S. Army Geospatial–Enterprise Governance Board (GGB) created the GIO position, with the Director, U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) as the U.S. Army's "central manager responsible for coordination, assessment, and synchronization of all Army policies and standardization requirements for the geospatial information enterprise, which will help enable interoperability across battle command systems
, bringing the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines closer to the realization of a unified Common Operational Picture
(COP). This COP allows the Department of Defense to deploy assets efficiently and effectively by providing the warfighter with the integrated capability to receive, correlate, and display a common tactical picture, including planning applications that may include location of friendly, hostile, and neutral units, assets, and reference points."
“Geospatial data is the foundation for a common operational picture, and the lack of policy and standards in this area prevents a unified COP today,” said Mr. Burkhardt. “The technology is available to enable battle command systems to collect information once and allow discovery and exploitation by all, however, without these standards, it is difficult to present unified, understandable solutions within and outside of the Army.” [Mr. Burkhardt is the first U.S. Army Geospatial Information Officer]
"The Geospatial-Enterprise Governance Board, co-chaired by the U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, and the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, addresses Army Geospatial-Enterprise issues impacting current and future force requirements while striving to administer and facilitate the development of a net-enabled Army geospatial enterprise. Such an enterprise allows actionable geospatial information to be tasked, posted, processed, and used as needed from the National to the Soldier level through a distributed database and architecture based on a common core of software, standards, data formats, and algorithms. A key component of this shared enterprise will be established policy, in conjunction with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
, to pass value added
data back to national data stores."
Army Appoints Service's First Geospatial Information Officer, March 2008
GIO Leads Geospatial Enterprise, June 2008
In Search of a GIO
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Geospatial Information Officer
Theater Geospatial Database
Mission Specific Data Sets (MSDS)
Stewardship
: Geospatial Intelligence / GEOINT
Geospatial
Geospatial analysis is an approach to applying statistical analysis and other informational techniques to geographically based data. Such analysis employs spatial software and analytical methods with terrestrial or geographic datasets, including geographic information systems and...
information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
within a civilian, business, government and/or military organizations.
Due to cost saving issues, many civilian, business, government and military organizations took the chief information officer
Chief information officer
Chief information officer , or information technology director, is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and computer systems that support enterprise goals...
concept and created the Geospatial Information Officer. Recent increased use of geospatially oriented data for civilian, business, government and military, have required cost efficiencies in collection, production and analysis.
In March 2008, the U.S. Army Geospatial–Enterprise Governance Board (GGB) created the GIO position, with the Director, U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) as the U.S. Army's "central manager responsible for coordination, assessment, and synchronization of all Army policies and standardization requirements for the geospatial information enterprise, which will help enable interoperability across battle command systems
Army Battle Command System
The Army Battle Command System is a digital Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence system for the US Army. It includes a mix of fixed/semi-fixed and mobile networks...
, bringing the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines closer to the realization of a unified Common Operational Picture
Common Operational Picture
A common operational picture is a single identical display of relevant information shared by more than one Command...
(COP). This COP allows the Department of Defense to deploy assets efficiently and effectively by providing the warfighter with the integrated capability to receive, correlate, and display a common tactical picture, including planning applications that may include location of friendly, hostile, and neutral units, assets, and reference points."
“Geospatial data is the foundation for a common operational picture, and the lack of policy and standards in this area prevents a unified COP today,” said Mr. Burkhardt. “The technology is available to enable battle command systems to collect information once and allow discovery and exploitation by all, however, without these standards, it is difficult to present unified, understandable solutions within and outside of the Army.” [Mr. Burkhardt is the first U.S. Army Geospatial Information Officer]
"The Geospatial-Enterprise Governance Board, co-chaired by the U.S. Army Chief of Engineers, and the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, addresses Army Geospatial-Enterprise issues impacting current and future force requirements while striving to administer and facilitate the development of a net-enabled Army geospatial enterprise. Such an enterprise allows actionable geospatial information to be tasked, posted, processed, and used as needed from the National to the Soldier level through a distributed database and architecture based on a common core of software, standards, data formats, and algorithms. A key component of this shared enterprise will be established policy, in conjunction with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing and distributing geospatial intelligence in support of national security. NGA was formerly known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency ...
, to pass value added
Value added
In economics, the difference between the sale price and the production cost of a product is the value added per unit. Summing value added per unit over all units sold is total value added. Total value added is equivalent to Revenue less Outside Purchases...
data back to national data stores."
Army Appoints Service's First Geospatial Information Officer, March 2008
GIO Leads Geospatial Enterprise, June 2008
In Search of a GIO
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Geospatial Information Officer
Theater Geospatial Database
Mission Specific Data Sets (MSDS)
Stewardship
Stewardship
Stewardship is an ethic that embodies responsible planning and management of resources. The concept of stewardship has been applied in diverse realms, including with respect to environment, economics, health, property, information, and religion, and is linked to the concept of sustainability...
: Geospatial Intelligence / GEOINT
GEOINT
Geospatial intelligence, GEOINT , GeoIntel , or GSI has no universally accepted definition and it has been said that if you "ask 10 people to define 'geospatial intelligence,' and you are likely to get 10 different answers."-Official definition:The...