The Center
CGINT
overview
The Romanian Training and Operational GEOINT
capabilities are concentrated inside a GEOINT Training and Research Center
(CGINT) developed by Military Technical Academy in cooperation with Romanian
Space Agency (ROSA), and other national security organizations. CGINT
concept is based on National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) GEOINT
doctrine, published in 2004.
CGINT is a 400 000 EUROS project financed under the national program for
research and development CEEX.
CGINT it’s a development of GEOINT training and research capabilities
created inside MTA starting with 2001. GEOINT Training Center performs
specific and customized courses (performed on different levels), on Tactical
and Strategic Image Intelligence, Image Analysis, Space Mapping, Terrain
Analysis, Remote Sensing and GIS. The duration is from 4 to 12 weeks. All
courses are NATO IRI/AR compliant (STANAG 3596).
CGINT target
CGINT provides critical spatial information to a decision making process that is
necessary for meaningful actions and decisions, based on the fusion or
integration of multiple forms of data collected from satellite and airborne
sensors, along with a wide variety of other digital geographic information..
GEOINT provides the spatial foundation essential for the analysis of information
from all sources, providing the baseline starting point for all geographically
referenced analytic efforts. It brings together cartography, imagery analysis,
geospatial analysis, geodesy, aeronautical analysis, maritime analysis and
regional analysis thus providing unique intelligence capability.
The main objective of CGINT is to elaborate technical specifications and design
procedures for creating a pilot center for geospatial intelligence capable of
implementing GEOINT concepts and offering an open system using various resources
and thus creating a well structured methodology answering the specific needs
expressed by the users in the security field.
CGINT Main
Application
Informing national policymakers;
National security and civil support;
Supporting military operations;
Intelligence cooperation.
CGINT research topics
Exploitation of Aerospace Imagery and
Geospatial Data for Change Detection;
Management of very large databases,
smart databases and content based image retrieval (data mining);
Data fusion and 3D mapping;
Data transmission/encryption/decryption
techniques.
CGINT Center
concentrates expertise in the following domains:
Satellite and airborne remote sensing
systems;
Multi-source data and sensor fusion;
Advanced image processing methods for
feature and knowledge extraction;
2D/3D dataset visualization,
human-computer interaction, high-resolution virtual reality;
Database mining and information
retrieval;
Geospatial data development,
integration, application tools, and enterprise management.
