GEOG 594B
Geospatial Intelligence Capstone Experience

Welcome to GEOG 594B - Geospatial Intelligence Capstone Experience

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Overview:

This seminar merges the concepts of the Geospatial Intelligence program and reinforces the standards of professionalism applicable to geospatial intelligence analysis in government and business. In this course, you will build upon your past coursework to identify and investigate a real-world problem using a GIS or remote sensing tool. Course goals are to evaluate and apply analytical methods and to recognize ethical and professional issues in the spatial domain.

You will demonstrate your ability to identify and investigate a real-world problem using a substantial amount of your past coursework. You must use GIS or a remote sensing tool to create evidence. This work may be completed as a team. To successfully complete GEOG 594B, students must communicate a high level of knowledge of the subject based upon their thinking, organization, and technical analysis of the evidence.

Identifying a real-world problem is your first challenge. For students in the Geospatial Intelligence Option of the Homeland Security master's program, our perspective of homeland security follows an all-hazards approach and crosses both the public and the private sectors. While the US federal government's Department of Homeland Security is a driver of needs, significant analytic problems also exist at state and local levels, as well as internationally. In addition, a public-private partnership has made homeland security an important focus for the private sector in fields such as technology, finance, insurance, public health, and more.

GEOG 594B is the culminating experience for the Geospatial Intelligence Option of the Intercollege Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security program and the Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Intelligence Analytics.

About Your Instructors

Meet Greg Thomas, instructor of this course (0:43 seconds)

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Hello, my name is Greg Thomas. I'm the Assistant Director for Geospatial Intelligence programs at Penn State, and I teach several fundamental and advanced courses on topic of geospatial intelligence. My background is in intelligence and analysis in the law enforcement field, and I bring that experience to the program and the courses I teach. In my classes I stress the analysis of human activity over place and time, to provide a decision advantage or to solve a problem, and I show how geospatial intelligence as a discipline is used for analyzing data in various fields of study. I look forward to exploring geospatial intelligence analysis further with you, and hope you enjoy the course!

Credit: © Penn State is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Meet Carolynne Hultquist, instructor of this course (0:43 seconds)

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I'm Carolynne Hultquist, an adjunct instructor at Penn State and an alumni of the geography department. My work is on integrating physical and social systems to better understand hazards. I work on geospatial data technologies and I hope to help you develop your skills in these areas through courses in spatial data science, GIS, and programming. I'm a third generation alumni of Penn State and, as a sports obsessed family that's typical in this tradition, I enjoy swimming, soccer, and Latin dancing. I hope to work with you in class!

Credit: © Penn State is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Want to join us? Students who register for this Penn State course gain access to assignments and instructor feedback and earn academic credit. For more information, visit Penn State's Online Geospatial Education Program website. Official course descriptions and curricular details can be reviewed in the University Bulletin.