Nordic Geospatial Blog –

As the foundation of the information ‘superhighway’, broadband connectivity across the US (rural, urban, tribal, etc.) is a vital component of the critical infrastructure of our nation’s future communications and competitiveness – well done FCC maps and GIS team!

http://www.fcc.gov/maps

Great blog and small business cyber security planning resource
http://www.fcc.gov/blog/empowering-small-businesses-become-cyber-secure

For developers – http://www.fcc.gov/developers

GIS programs – http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/info/maps/programs/

Embeddable map collection > http://tiles.mapbox.com/fcc

Compelling ISW (Institute for the Study of War) video of the integrated, multi-scale (i.e. micro<>meso<>macro) use of structured and unstructured geospatial and WWW data to analyze the labyrinthine cultural, military and social forces which defined the various stages of the Libyan uprising and NATO response -

http://www.understandingwar.org/press-media/webcast/video-understanding-libyan-revolution-through-palantir

UPDATE 20111101
Important #NationalGuard story
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/01/141863597/miss-couple-lament-loss-of-the-american-dream

Staff SGT Stacy Pearsall was DoD Combat Photographer of the Year
http://stacypearsall.photoshelter.com/about/

http://www.defense.gov/home/features/military_photographers/pearsall/

Video – http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/10/photographer-in-ambush-medic-could-not-get-there-fast-enough.html

Ed Darak’s imagery from Iraq and Afganistan
http://www.darack.com/

http://www.corbisimages.com/Search#pg=Ed+Darack&p=4

Go to http://www.hifldwg.org/ for more info.

San Diego County Sheriff’s Department – Intelligence Led Policing from San Diego County Sheriff on Vimeo.

Go to http://vimeo.com/29733374 for more information

Go to http://www.unglobalpulse.org/ for more info.

Vis a vis UN/US DoD/NGO etc bottlenecks in response #logistics in Haiti, Japan, Horn of Africa, this is a prescient and timeless tome -

http://books.google.com/books?id=U87KGgdR4NsC&lpg=PR1&pg=PR5#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.dianepublishing.net/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=0788113100

UPDATE 20110605
US JSOC Leadership & National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/adm-william-mcraven-the-terrorist-hunter-on-whose-shoulders-osama-bin-laden-raid-rested/2011/05/04/AFsEv4rF_story.html

Priceless Daily Show with excellent map at the end of the video -

Only 1.4 KM from a Pakistan Military Academy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_Military_Academy

K9 assets used during raid for UXO and forensic purposes -

Amazing overview by FP
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/05/04/war_dog

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/15/dogs-war-osama-bin-laden

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3562677/Fearless-four-legged-war-hero.html

With due deference to Jesse Eisenberg, the future is here and it is BOTH social and geospatial -

http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/spatio-temporal/

PDFs
http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/spatio-temporal/participants.php

Keynote
https://www1.nga.mil/Newsroom/PressReleases/Press%20Releases/nga_10_12_speech.pdf

Vision
https://www1.nga.mil/Newsroom/PressReleases/Press%20Releases/nga_10_12.pdf

An important piece by NPR & America Abroad Media commemorating the important stories, heroism, and sacrifice of the sailors and soldiers aboard the USS Cole on Oct. 12, 2000.

Resources -
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/10/08/130438952/remembering-the-u-s-s-cole-ten-years-after-it-was-attacked-in-a-yemen-port

Download Audio (< 3 mb MP3)

http://www.americaabroadmedia.org/programs/view/id/150

http://www.americaabroadmedia.org/multimedia/cole-voices/index.html

http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/aqap.html

After the Cole: One Sailor’s Fight from America Abroad Media on Vimeo.

Excellent article

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/09/05/3007126_us-vehicles-destroy-afghan-bombs.html