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What is geospatial intelligence? A geographer explains the powerful melding of maps and data

  • Written by Darren Ruddell, Associate Professor of Spatial Sciences, University of Southern California
What is geospatial intelligence? A geographer explains the powerful melding of maps and dataWhere + what = geospatial intelligence.Peter Steffen/picture alliance via Getty Images

With record-breaking temperatures across the South, smoke from Canadian wildfires across the North, historic flooding in the Northeast and a powerful hurricane in the Southeast, the summer of 2023 has presented a range of threats to the safety of the majority of...

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