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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Index National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is both a combat support agency under the United States Department of Defense and an intelligence agency of the United States Intelligence Community, with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security. [1]

135 relations: Adlai Stevenson II, Aerial photographic and satellite image interpretation, Aerial photography, Application programming interface, Army Map Service, Arsenal Credit Union, Arthur C. Lundahl, Athens, Atrium (architecture), Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Belgrade, Bethesda, Maryland, Bing Maps Platform, Blog, Cartography, Center for Intelligence and Security Studies, Central Intelligence Agency, Charles H. Ruth, CNN, Combat support agency, Corona (satellite), Cuba, Cuban Missile Crisis, Dalecarlia Reservoir, Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office, Defense Intelligence Agency, Dino Brugioni, Display resolution, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Falls Church, Virginia, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Fort Belvoir, Frank J. Ruocco, Geodesy, GeoEye, Geographic data and information, Geographic information system, Geomatics, GEOnet Names Server, Geospatial information officer, Geospatial intelligence, GitHub, Google, Google Earth, Greater St. Louis, Hurricane Katrina, Image analysis, Imagery analysis, Imagery intelligence, In-Q-Tel, ..., Intelligence agency, Intelligence analysis, Intellipedia, James C. King, James Clapper, John C. Frémont, John C. Stennis Space Center, John F. Kennedy, John J. Hicks, Joseph D. Kernan, Joseph J. Dantone, Leo A. Hazlewood, Letitia Long, Letter of understanding, Lieutenant general (United States), Lockheed U-2, Microsoft, Nancy E. Bone, NASA, National Archives and Records Administration, National Reconnaissance Office, National security, Olympic Games, Orthophoto, Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, PandoDaily, Peace dividend, Photogrammetry, Pokhran-II, President of the United States, Rear admiral (United States), Reconnaissance satellite, Remote sensing, Reston, Virginia, Robert B. Murrett, Robert Cardillo, Robert Gates, Robert M. Huffstutler, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, RSS, Rutledge P. Hazzard, Satellite imagery, Senior Executive Service (United States), September 11 attacks, Small satellite, Soviet Union, Space Shuttle Columbia, Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Space Shuttle program, Springfield, Virginia, St. Louis, Statue of Liberty, STS-107, Suitland-Silver Hill, Maryland, The Atlantic, The Pentagon, Tubbataha Reef, Turin, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, United Nations Security Council, United States Air Force, United States Army, United States Army Air Corps, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Army War College, United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, United States Department of Defense, United States Department of War, United States Geological Survey, United States Intelligence Community, United States Naval Observatory, United States Navy, United States Secretary of Defense, USS Guardian (MCM-5), Utah, Vice admiral (United States), Virginia, Washington metropolitan area, World Trade Center site, World War I, World War II, 2002 Winter Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics, 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission, 2006 Winter Olympics. Expand index (85 more) »

Adlai Stevenson II

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, noted for his intellectual demeanor, eloquent public speaking, and promotion of progressive causes in the Democratic Party.

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Aerial photographic and satellite image interpretation

Photographic interpretation is “the act of examining photographic images for the purpose of identifying objects and judging their significance” (Colwell, 1997).

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Aerial photography

Aerial photography (or airborne imagery) is the taking of photographs from an aircraft or other flying object.

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Application programming interface

In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software.

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Army Map Service

The Army Map Service of the US Army Corps of Engineers, was the premier map making agency of the US Department of Defense from 1941–68.

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Arsenal Credit Union

Arsenal Credit Union (ACU) is a state-chartered credit union headquartered in Arnold, Missouri, and serving the St. Louis metropolitan area, chartered and regulated under the authority of the Missouri Division of Credit Unions.

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Arthur C. Lundahl

Arthur Charles "Art" Lundahl (1 April 1915 – June 22, 1992) was the key organizer of the US post-World War II imagery intelligence (IMINT), and an aerial-photography expert whose detection of missile installations in Cuba in 1962 led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Athens

Athens (Αθήνα, Athína; Ἀθῆναι, Athênai) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Atrium (architecture)

In architecture, an atrium (plural: atria or atriums) is a large open air or skylight covered space surrounded by a building.

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Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Bay Saint Louis is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Mississippi, in the United States.

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Belgrade

Belgrade (Beograd / Београд, meaning "White city",; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Serbia.

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Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda is an unincorporated, census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, located just northwest of the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda.

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Bing Maps Platform

Bing Maps Platform (previously Microsoft Virtual Earth) is a geospatial mapping platform produced by Microsoft.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

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Cartography

Cartography (from Greek χάρτης chartēs, "papyrus, sheet of paper, map"; and γράφειν graphein, "write") is the study and practice of making maps.

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Center for Intelligence and Security Studies

The University of Mississippi's Center for Intelligence and Security Studies (or CISS), located on the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, Mississippi, was created in 2008 and is housed in the university's School of Applied Sciences.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).

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Charles H. Ruth

Charles H. Ruth (1889–1949) was considered the founding father of the Army Map Service.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Combat support agency

Combat support agency (CSA) is a designation by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) of those defense agencies that provide department-level and tactical support to the U.S. military during combat operations.

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Corona (satellite)

The Corona program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites produced and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology with substantial assistance from the U.S. Air Force.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962 (Crisis de Octubre), the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.

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Dalecarlia Reservoir

Dalecarlia Reservoir is the primary storage basin for drinking water in Washington, D.C., fed by an underground aqueduct in turn fed by low dams which divert portions of the Potomac River near Great Falls and Little Falls.

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Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office

Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO) was an office within the United States Department of Defense, responsible to the Under Secretary of Defense.

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Defense Intelligence Agency

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is an external intelligence service of the United States federal government specializing in defense and military intelligence.

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Dino Brugioni

Dino Antonio Brugioni (December 16, 1921 – September 25, 2015) was a former senior official at the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC).

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Display resolution

The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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Falls Church, Virginia

Falls Church is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Federal Emergency Management Agency

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created by Presidential Reorganization Plan No.

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Fort Belvoir

Fort Belvoir is a United States Army installation and a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

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Frank J. Ruocco

Frank J. Ruocco was fifth director of National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC) from February 1988 to February 1991.

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Geodesy

Geodesy, also known as geodetics, is the earth science of accurately measuring and understanding three of Earth's fundamental properties: its geometric shape, orientation in space, and gravitational field.

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GeoEye

GeoEye Inc. (formerly Orbital Imaging Corporation or ORBIMAGE) was an American commercial satellite imagery company based in Herndon, Virginia.

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Geographic data and information

Geographic data and information are defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as data and information having an implicit or explicit association with a location relative to the Earth.

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Geographic information system

A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data.

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Geomatics

Geomatics (including geomatics engineering), also known as surveying engineering or geospatial science (including geospatial engineering and geospatial technology), is the discipline of gathering, storing, processing, and delivering geographic information or spatially referenced information.

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GEOnet Names Server

The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names's (BGN) database of geographic feature names and locations for locations outside the United States.

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Geospatial information officer

A Geospatial Information Officer (GIO) is the head of geospatial information technology within a civilian, business, government and/or military organization.

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Geospatial intelligence

In the United States, Geospatial intelligence, GEOINT (GEOspatial INTelligence) is intelligence about the human activity on earth derived from the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information that describes, assesses, and visually depicts physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth.

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GitHub

GitHub Inc. is a web-based hosting service for version control using Git.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Google Earth

Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based on satellite imagery.

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Greater St. Louis

Greater St.

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Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that caused catastrophic damage along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge and levee failure.

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Image analysis

Image analysis is the extraction of meaningful information from images; mainly from digital images by means of digital image processing techniques.

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Imagery analysis

Imagery analysis is the extraction of useful information from bi-dimensional graphic formats.

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Imagery intelligence

Imagery intelligence (IMINT) is an intelligence gathering discipline which collects information via satellite and aerial photography.

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In-Q-Tel

In-Q-Tel (IQT), formerly Peleus and known as In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia.

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Intelligence agency

An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives.

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Intelligence analysis

Intelligence analysis is the application of individual and collective cognitive methods to weigh data and test hypotheses within a secret socio-cultural context.

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Intellipedia

Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States Intelligence Community (IC).

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James C. King

James C. King is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General.

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James Clapper

James Robert Clapper Jr. (born March 14, 1941) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and is the former Director of National Intelligence.

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John C. Frémont

John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.

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John C. Stennis Space Center

The John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) is a NASA rocket testing facility.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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John J. Hicks

John J. Hicks was second director of National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC).

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Joseph D. Kernan

Joseph Devereux Kernan (born February 4, 1955) is a retired United States Navy vice admiral and the current Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.

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Joseph J. Dantone

Rear Admiral Joseph J. Dantone of U.S. Navy, was last director of Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) from May 1996 to September 1996.

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Leo A. Hazlewood

Leo A. Hazlewood was Director of National Photographic Interpretation Center from February 1991– September 1993), and Deputy Director of National Imagery and Mapping Agency from July 1997 – January 2000. He also served as Deputy Director of Operations at National Imagery and Mapping Agency (October 1996 – July 1997).

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Letitia Long

Letitia A. Long served as a civilian in the U.S. Navy and the Intelligence Community between 1978 and 2014, retiring as the fifth Director the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the first woman to lead a major U.S. intelligence agency, in October 2014.

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Letter of understanding

A Letter of Understanding or LOU is a formal text that sums up the terms and understanding of a contract which mostly has been negotiated up to this point only in spoken form.

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Lieutenant general (United States)

In the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and the United States Air Force, lieutenant general (abbreviated LTG in the Army, Lt Gen in the Air Force, and LtGen in the Marine Corps) is a three-star general officer rank, with the pay grade of O-9.

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Lockheed U-2

The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is an American single-jet engine, ultra-high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Nancy E. Bone

Nancy E. Bone is an American former intelligence officer who served as Director of National Photographic Interpretation Center between October 1993 and September 1996.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives.

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National Reconnaissance Office

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense.

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National security

National security refers to the security of a nation state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, and is regarded as a duty of government.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Orthophoto

An orthophoto, orthophotograph or orthoimage is an aerial photograph or image geometrically corrected ("orthorectified") such that the scale is uniform: the photo has the same lack of distortion as a map.

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Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad

Osama bin Laden's compound, known locally as the Waziristan Haveli (وزیرستان حویلی), was an upper-class mansion that was used as a safe house for militant Islamist Osama bin Laden, who was shot and killed there by U.S. forces on May 2, 2011.

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PandoDaily

PandoDaily is a web publication that offers technology news, analysis, and commentary, with a focus on Silicon Valley and startup companies.

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Peace dividend

Peace dividend is a political slogan popularized by US President George H.W. Bush and UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the early 1990s, purporting to describe the economic benefit of a decrease in defense spending.

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Photogrammetry

Photogrammetry is the science of making measurements from photographs, especially for recovering the exact positions of surface points.

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Pokhran-II

Pokhran-II was the series of five nuclear bomb test explosions conducted by India at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in May 1998.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Rear admiral (United States)

Rear admiral in the United States refers to two different ranks of commissioned officers — one-star flag officers and two-star flag officers.

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Reconnaissance satellite

A reconnaissance satellite (commonly, although unofficially, referred to as a spy satellite) is an Earth observation satellite or communications satellite deployed for military or intelligence applications.

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Remote sensing

Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object and thus in contrast to on-site observation.

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Reston, Virginia

Reston is one of the leading "New Town" planned communities in the United States.

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Robert B. Murrett

Vice Admiral Robert B. Murrett was the fourth Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, from 7 July 2006 through July 2010.

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Robert Cardillo

Robert Cardillo is the sixth Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and was sworn in October 3, 2014.

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Robert Gates

Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is an American statesman, scholar, intelligence analyst, and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011.

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Robert M. Huffstutler

Robert M. Huffstutler was director of National Photographic Interpretation Center from February 1984 to January 1988.

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Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, named after former United States President Ronald Reagan, is located in downtown Washington, D.C., and was the first federal building in Washington designed for both governmental and private sector purposes.

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RSS

RSS (Rich Site Summary; originally RDF Site Summary; often called Really Simple Syndication) is a type of web feed which allows users to access updates to online content in a standardized, computer-readable format.

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Rutledge P. Hazzard

Rutledge Parker "Hap" Hazzard (April 11, 1925 – December 27, 2008) was director of Science and Technology division of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1973 to 1978.

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Satellite imagery

Satellite imagery (or spaceborne photography) are images of Earth or other planets collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.

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Senior Executive Service (United States)

The Senior Executive Service (SES) is a position classification in the civil service of the United States federal government, somewhat analogous to general officer or flag officer ranks in the U.S. Armed Forces.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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Small satellite

Small satellites, miniaturized satellites, or smallsats, are satellites of low mass and size, usually under.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Space Shuttle Columbia

Space Shuttle Columbia (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA's Space Shuttle fleet.

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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disintegrated upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members.

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Space Shuttle program

The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.

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Springfield, Virginia

Springfield is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

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St. Louis

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Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States.

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STS-107

STS-107 was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program, and the final flight of Space Shuttle ''Columbia''.

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Suitland-Silver Hill, Maryland

Suitland-Silver Hill was a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, for the 2000 U.S. Census.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Pentagon

The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. As a symbol of the U.S. military, The Pentagon is often used metonymically to refer to the U.S. Department of Defense.

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Tubbataha Reef

The Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (Bahurang Tubbataha) is a protected area of the Philippines located in the middle of the Sulu Sea.

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Turin

Turin (Torino; Turin) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy.

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Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence or USD(I) is a high-ranking civilian position in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) within the U.S. Department of Defense that acts as the principal civilian advisor and deputy to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense on matters relating to military intelligence.

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United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, charged with the maintenance of international peace and security as well as accepting new members to the United Nations and approving any changes to its United Nations Charter.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Army Air Corps

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United States Army Corps of Engineers

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United States Army War College

The United States Army War College (USAWC) is a U.S. Army educational institution in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on the 500-acre (2 km²) campus of the historic Carlisle Barracks.

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United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade

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United States Department of Defense

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United States Department of War

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United States Secretary of Defense

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Utah

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Virginia

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World Trade Center site

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World War I

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World War II

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2002 Winter Olympics

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2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games (Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004), officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad and commonly known as Athens 2004, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries.

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2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission

The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission preliminary list was released by the United States Department of Defense on May 13, 2005.

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2006 Winter Olympics

The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games (Les XXes Jeux olympiques d'hiver, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and commonly known as Turin 2006 or italic, was a winter multi-sport event which was held in Turin, Piedmont, Italy from February 10 to 26, 2006.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geospatial-Intelligence_Agency

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