Using ArcGIS for Geospatial Intelligence Analysis
Strictly by pre-registration only
What is this course about?
Using relevant scenarios and operational problems, you will learn how to manage, analyse and visualise geospatial data, then share your work by producing mission-specific products aligned with industry best practices.
Course details
Location
Singapore
Duration
2 days
Level
Advanced
Category
ArcGIS Pro Workflows
CPD points
Are there any prerequisites?
Completion of Introduction to Geospatial Concepts for Intelligence course or equivalent knowledge.
What skills will I learn?
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Evaluate and prepare geospatial data to support intelligence planning and analysis activities.
- Analyse potential threats to identify patterns, hot spots and clusters.
- Apply ArcGIS Pro geoprocessing tools and ArcGIS LocateXT to support production workflows, analysis, visualisation and information dissemination.
- Create and share operational map products that include military symbology.
What can I expect?
- Course topics
1. Geospatial analysis and the operational environment
- Analytic methods: Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment (IPOE)
- Analytic methods: The geospatial analysis workflow (GAW)
- Intelligence preparation and geospatial analysis
- An iterative process
2. Visibility analysis in an operational environment
- Common geospatial tools used for IPOE
- Understanding visibility parameters
- Visibility types: Frequency and Observers
- Assessing the situation: Visibility analysis
- Evaluate the analysis
- Workflow review
3. Suitability modeling and the operational environment
- Common analytical tasks
- Raster overlays for suitability modeling
- What makes a suitable drop zone?
- The Military Symbology Editor
4. Distance analysis and avenues of approach
- Workflow review
- Avenues of approach: Cost-distance analysis
- Using the Raster Calculator
5. Operational planning and adversary activity
- Simplifying workflows using ModelBuilder
- Adding features using LocateXT
- Density analysis
- Visualising data in 3D
- How features relate to a surface
- Evaluating adversary activity
6. Using 3D to understand the operational environment
- When is 3D analysis appropriate to use?
- 3D analysis for operations
- Using interactive analysis in a 3D environment
7. Temporal analysis for homeland defence
- Spatiotemporal relationships in an operational environment
- Assessing the operational situation
- Dissemination of temporal data
- Recommending potential courses of action to a threat
- How to interpret inferential statistics
- Generating a hypothesis based on data evaluation
8. Evaluate the adversary using spatial statistics
- What are spatial statistics?
- Minimising subjectivity in your data interpretation
- Types of spatial statistics
- Clustering tools