National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

BETHESDA, Md.--National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency personnel are deployed to the Gulf Coast region in support of oil spill remediation efforts.

Some personnel deployed with the agency's Domestic Mobile Integrated Geospatial-Intelligence System--or DMIGS--a self-contained vehicle custom built on a fire truck chassis that allows NGA analysts to drive to a location and provide on-the-spot geospatial intelligence analysis and products.

Analysts with the DMIGS are supporting the U.S. Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Additional NGA personnel are supporting the National Incident Command Center in Washington, D.C.

NGA support includes analysis, unclassified commercial satellite imagery, and geospatial intelligence products of the Mississippi delta and surrounding Gulf coast areas. The products include graphics of major infrastructure along the Gulf coast, operational planning map atlases, and graphics depicting the extent of the oil spill. These types of products greatly assist the USCG in leveraging every available resource to respond to the Gulf oil spill. NGA will also be providing public access to some of its geospatial intelligence products (e.g. imagery and maps) as they become available via NGA’s GEOINT Online (https://www.geoint-online.net/community/ngaearth/GulfOilSpill/default.aspx)

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required me to obtain imagery from the NGA. It's GIS work making maps from imagery. I liked it.