National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Washington #Nats and #STLCards who? Team NGA is the team to beat this baseball season! 🌎 💪 ⚾️ Here, every day is National Intelligence Professionals Day. Follow along in July as we showcase the unique tradecraft of our #intelligence professionals! ➡️

First up to bat is Katy, a cartographer here at NGA. ⚾️ 🗺️ Katy previously worked at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), where she mapped habitat restoration for endangered species, and spent 7 years in Italy working for the US Navy. She now receives extra money each paycheck for her Italian language skills

Happy #July4th from NGA! 🎆 🎆 #DYK In July 1777, General George Washington created the Defense Mapping Agency, which produced over 200 detailed maps. These maps gave Washington superior terrain knowledge, enabling him to outmaneuver the British. One of their maps is this Hudson Highlands map from July 1779. Generals Washington and Wayne used this map to plan the successful surprise attack on Stony Point where an American militia empowered by #cartography emerged victorious. Today, we celebrate America’s independence and the role maps played in achieving our hard earned and long beloved freedom. 🗺️

At NGA St. Louis, 10 students from Saint Louis University, Harris-Stowe State University, and University of Missouri-Saint Louis are working in #geomatics at our Geosciences and Artificial Intelligence Application Lab. These students are working on #AI Gravity, AI Crustal Magnetism, Gravity Modeling Enhancement, and AI Cloud Detection projects and partnering with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, and U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Read more on how NGA is paving the way for the future of geomatics, #NGAinSTL ➡️ https://bit.ly/4coKhnh

NGA may soon be able to predict the future. 🔮 🔮 How? Satellite imagery with #AI can enable NGA to better anticipate events of geopolitical significance and impending crises: You're going to see a drought here and that may lead to civil unrest. Traditionally, analysis is retroactive, but with AI, satellite imagery can be used to forecast what is likely to happen in the future. Learn more about how AI will continue to revolutionize #GEOINT from NGA’s Data and Digital Innovation Director Mark Munsell 📰➡️ https://bit.ly/3L0V9eS

Thanks for following along as NGA celebrated #Pride this month. To end the month, we’re spotlighting Marty. 🌈 Marty is an IT Operations Analyst who provides 24/7 situational awareness of #GEOINT #IT infrastructure. "What comes to mind when I think of Queer Pride is community. Even before the Stonewall riots, Queer people have been unifying into clubs, societies, housing units, to support each other, and particularly the most vulnerable among us. Queer Pride is a radical concept, because it does not signify the pride of individualism, but rather, pride in one’s community, and the call to participate in that community. Pride in my community, the LGBTQ+ community, inspires me to participate in the impact NGA wants to have in the world.” #ICPride

For NGA’s Imagery Analysts, every day is #NationalCameraDay! 📸 Meet Ichesia, a spectral imagery analyst here at NGA who uses images every day at work. "The people who work at NGA care about this country. They care about our mission, and they want to do a good job. We're all in it to do the best we can, together, for our country" said Ichesia, who earned her bachelor’s degree in material sciences at Norfolk State University and pursued a career in #STEM. Learn more about her path to NGA and advice she has for those looking to follow her lead and do the best they can for our country. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3zaGTh0

Silicon Valley – more like Silicon Prairie. 💡 The great plains are becoming a hot spot for #tech startups and innovation. Meet NGA’s home on this range: Moonshot Labs, an unclassified #innovation center delivering world-class #GEOINT out of St. Louis. Take a look inside Moonshot Labs, #NGAinSTL ➡️ https://bit.ly/3XAnoc2

The next NGA West courtyard is looking a lot greener lately! 🌼 We can’t wait to check out the rest of the beautiful landscape at our future campus in St. Louis. #NGAInSTL

Over 600 years ago, a sprawling Native American city home to roughly 20,000 Cahokia tribe members disappeared from the Mississippi river valley. Today, NGA is working with Saint Louis University to map this UNESCO World Heritage Site. 📡📡 Check out this Cahokia Mounds aerial survey NGA created used #LiDAR technology to answer questions about the Cahokia's past. Learn more about how NGA is working across #archaeology, #anthropology, and other related disciplines to answer this 600-year-old mystery 📰➡️ https://bit.ly/4cyjR21