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Instructor: Daniel Steiner
- Course email: Please use the course email system (see the Inbox in Canvas).
- Personal email: dms6551@psu.edu
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John A. Dutton e-Education Institute
2217 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Penn State
University Park, PA 16802
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Welcome to GEOG 850: Location Intelligence for Business
Dan Steiner is the Instructor for GEOG 850.
As an adjunct faculty member of the Penn State University, Dutton e-Education Institute team, I currently teach GEOG 850, Location Intelligence for Business. This course provides a foundation for spatial thinking in commercial settings, experience with contemporary mapping and analysis tools for professional applications of location intelligence. I have also participated in three GEOG 597, Comparative Geospatial Intelligence courses examining the practice of geospatial intelligence in the US, UK, Russia, and NATO member countries.
I hold a BS in Engineering from the United States Military Academy and Masters of GIS (GEOINT Option) from Penn State University. My foundation in the traditional areas of geospatial intelligence is solid with coursework and experience in geodesy, cartography, cultural and political geography, remote sensing, and progressive uses of geographic information systems. It's fun for me to see how geography, mapping visualization, and GIS problem solving have shaped my career from experience in the United State Army Corps of Engineers, pharmaceutical industry, and now as a small business owner.
The Army trained me in terrain analysis, all phases of the cartographic process, and remote sensing at the Defense Mapping School in Virginia and Inter-American Geodetic Survey in Panama. Through 20 years of pharmaceutical operations, sales, and leadership I honed my GIS skills and applied business principles to spatially related risk assessment and decision making. Outside of Penn State, I own and operate Orion Mapping, providing business insights, imagery analysis, and geospatial intelligence/location intelligence to commercial, government, and community clients.
Meet your instructor, Dan Steiner (1:37 minutes)
Hello, I'm Dan Steiner. I've been teaching in the areas of business and geospatial intelligence at Penn State since 2019. I hold a BS in engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a Master of geographic information systems from the Pennsylvania State University. One of the highlights of my own graduate studies was being awarded the Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy Award in Geospatial Intelligence at the 2018 Geospatial Intelligence Symposium in Tampa Florida.
Geography mapping visualization and GIS problem solving have shaped my career from experiences in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the pharmaceutical industry, and now as a small business owner. The Army trained me in terrain analysis cartography and remote sensing at the Defense Mapping Agency in Virginia and Inter-American Geodetic Survey in Panama. Through 20 years in pharmaceutical operations sales and leadership, I honed my GIS skills and applied business principles to spatially related risk assessment and decision making.
Outside of Penn State, I own and operate Orion Mapping, providing business insights, imagery analysis, and geospatial intelligence location intelligence to commercial, government, and community clients. I welcome discussing your interests in Penn State graduate studies and answering any questions you have about my own journey as a geospatial intelligence professional. I wish you well in your studies and careers!