AbstractAcademic Research Opportunities at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Track: Teaching with GIS in Higher Education Author(s): Beth Driver “Know the Earth...Show the Way.” The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) achieves this vision by providing geospatial intelligence in all forms and from whatever source—imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial data and information—to ensure the knowledge foundation for planning, decision, and action. Academia plays a key role in the NGA research and development program through the NGA Academic Research Program (NARP). This multidisciplinary program of basic research in geospatial intelligence provides grants and fellowships to the leading investigators, research universities, and colleges of the nation. This research provides the fundamental science support to NGA’s applied and advanced research programs in addressing NGA’s technical challenges: remote sensing, geodesy and geophysics, advanced geoprocessing, and geoint analytics. The NARP components are the NGA University Research Initiatives (NURI), the Historically Black College and University—Minority Institution Research Initiatives (HBCU-MI), and the Intelligence Community Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships. Beth Driver National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Outreach Division 12310 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS DN-11 Reston, VA 20191 US Phone: 703-735-3062 E-mail: Beth.H.Driver@nga.mil |