Federal Government: Use Cases

Border Patrol and Law Enforcement
Geosemble can be applied to border regions where the situation on the ground needs to be monitored with great precision. For this application, the border patrol line of interest is identified, and the type of content specified. For example, you would bring in open source content from websites and blogs likely to have content of interest (this could be hundreds or even thousands of sites), bring in internal data sources which could include incident reports, situation reports and other types of analysis documents. By combining open and closed sources, updated every 15 minutes and filtered for keywords of interest, the user suddenly has a powerful command over an area and can arrive at conclusions much earlier and with fewer staff than previously possible. It is also possible to create an email or text alert that will provide on-the-go situational awareness to mobile phones on activity of interest in a given area or border region.

Command Center Operations
Analysts and commanders at regional and theater command centers are faced with a deluge of information coming in regarding their area of responsibility. Sifting through that information for relevant data is labor intensive and takes a great deal of time and trained personnel. For a given area of responsibility, Geosemble can support command center personnel by automatically filtering and displaying relevant content.

For example, a given command center is responsible for operations and security in a given location. This could be country level, state or even part of a city. Inevitably, there are data sources being monitored to provide situational awareness for this area of responsibility. The first step is to pipe those data sources into Geosemble’s GeoXray product. This could include open sources such as websites, blogs, tweets and other internet content, as well as closed sources like incident and situation reports. Part of what GeoXray does is combine data sources into a text stream that can be ingested, analyzed and indexed. The system can be refreshed every 15 minutes to ensure currency of the data. Once the data is processed it is geo-enabled and can be consumed in a number of different ways. The data can be accessed via an API by any number of other programs already in the command center; it can be displayed directly on a command center satellite image, on a map, or it can be viewed in Geosemble’s native GeoXray viewer.

A main benefit of sourcing intelligence and viewing it in the context of the area of responsibility is that mission planning for a given place can leverage current, open source or closed source intelligence of relevance for that area, while data that’s not relevant to that area is excluded from consideration. This efficiently leverages an organization’s scale and breadth of knowledge and brings it to bear at the right place and time.

More important, for events already underway, analysts, incident commanders and other command center personnel can quickly answer hard questions like “what is that building?”, and “What do we know about that place?”, and thereby derive deep situational awareness for a given area and advise field personnel on the best course of action early enough to impact events already underway.

UAV Surveillance
Planning, executing and exploiting UAV missions brings a host of challenges in a number of areas, including collection request priority, route planning, situational awareness, image intelligence and timeliness and responsiveness.

Geosemble provides enhanced situational awareness in the mission planning and exploitation phases of UAV surveillance by doing the following:

• Brings in content linked to points of interest in a given geographic area
• Provides context around reported blue force position/sit reps
• Integrates disparate text data sources for a given area
  • INTEL reports
  • Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
     
• Assists with video cueing of archived mission data.
• GeoXray automatically links intelligence reports and other textual content to specific points of interest.

Be delivering geographic knowledge to aerial imagery Geosemble saves time in mission planning and mission data exploitation for UAV missions.