Dan Opstal's guest appearances

Dan Opstal

Project Geospatial

Through the Human Geography Lens

Mike McGowan

Sarah Campbell

Tanya Harrison

Chris Tucker

Ryan Lewis

Mike Nelson

David Jones

Dana Brown

Richard Jenkins

Kevin O'Brien

John Nelson

Rob Shields

Bill Emison

Keith Johnson

Chris Ashworth

OwlTail

In this episode of “Through the Human Geography Lens”, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sit down with Dan Opstal and Jordan Beauregard from US Geological Survey’s Civil Applications Committee. 0:48  Defining the Civil Applications Committee https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2022/3002/fs20223002.pdf 2:07  Defining the Triple Junction positioning of the CAC 2:40  The CAC and its Human Security tasks 4:00  Open-source data availability 4:20  International Charter for Space and Major Disasters https://disasterscharter.org/web/guest/home;jsessionid=87F1DB8EF0A2ECA8F5728124A8760CB0.APP1 5:30  CAC makes datasets available from all partners 7:15  Monthly overview of all Space Charter activations (esp wildfire management) 9:32  Proactive Working Groups (getting to the left of an event) 10:30  Pre and Post Collection analysis 11:20  Environmental Security Working Group (ESWG) explanation 12:18  Events hosted for professional development within the Intelligence Community 13:20  ESWG participation in the first National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2021/item/2253-national-intelligence-estimate-on-climate-change 14:15  Professional resource for the intelligence community, extending to academia like the Naval Postgraduate School 15:20  5th Environmental Security Summit (open to the public) 21-22 September 2022 16:25  National Intelligence University website for the previous Environmental Security Summit Proceedings: https://ni-u.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/21C-102_Environmental_Security_Summit_2020_Conference_Paperv2.pdf 17:45  “The environment cannot be classified.” – a discussion of new partners 19:10   The CAC used COVID as a forcing function to open up resources to a larger audience. 20:45   How to participate in CAC or ESWG events: ESWG_Leadership@NGA.mil 21:25  Request participation and an open facing CAC Fact Sheet from CAC@USGS.gov--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wwhgd-support/message

In this episode of <a href="https://www.wwhgd.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Through the Human Geography Lens”</a>, hosts Terri Ryan and Gwyneth Holt sit down with Dan Opstal and Jordan Beauregard from US Geological Survey’s Civil Applications Committee. 0:48  Defining the Civil Applications Committee <a href="https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2022/3002/fs20223002.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2022/3002/fs20223002.pdf</a> 2:07  Defining the Triple Junction positioning of the CAC 2:40  The CAC and its Human Security tasks 4:00  Open-source data availability 4:20  International Charter for Space and Major Disasters <a href="https://disasterscharter.org/web/guest/home;jsessionid=87F1DB8EF0A2ECA8F5728124A8760CB0.APP1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://disasterscharter.org/web/guest/home;jsessionid=87F1DB8EF0A2ECA8F5728124A8760CB0.APP1</a> 5:30  CAC makes datasets available from all partners 7:15  Monthly overview of all Space Charter activations (esp wildfire management) 9:32  Proactive Working Groups (getting to the left of an event) 10:30  Pre and Post Collection analysis 11:20  Environmental Security Working Group (ESWG) explanation 12:18  Events hosted for professional development within the Intelligence Community 13:20  ESWG participation in the first National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2021/item/2253-national-intelligence-estimate-on-climate-change" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2021/item/2253-national-intelligence-estimate-on-climate-change</a> 14:15  Professional resource for the intelligence community, extending to academia like the Naval Postgraduate School 15:20  5th Environmental Security Summit (open to the public) 21-22 September 2022 16:25  National Intelligence University website for the previous Environmental Security Summit Proceedings: <a href="https://ni-u.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/21C-102_Environmental_Security_Summit_2020_Conference_Paperv2.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ni-u.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/21C-102_Environmental_Security_Summit_2020_Conference_Paperv2.pdf</a> 17:45  “The environment cannot be classified.” – a discussion of new partners 19:10   The CAC used COVID as a forcing function to open up resources to a larger audience. 20:45   How to participate in CAC or ESWG events: <a href="mailto:ESWG_Leadership@NGA.mil">ESWG_Leadership@NGA.mil</a> 21:25  Request participation and an open facing CAC Fact Sheet from <a href="mailto:CAC@USGS.gov">CAC@USGS.gov</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/wwhgd-support/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/wwhgd-support/message</a>

Dan Opstal and Jordan Beauregard from US Geological Survey’s Civil Applications Committee

Scott Kaplan

The interagency Civil Applications Committee (CAC) facilitates the appropriate civil uses of overhead remote sensing technologies and data collected by military and intelligence capabilities, including from commercial sources. The CAC is operated and staffed by the U.S. Geological Survey on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Interior and its interagency partners. The director of the U.S. Geological Survey is the chair of the committee, and the vice-chair is a non-Department of the Interior senior official. The CAC ensures certain Federal civil agencies have access to these remotely sensed assets to meet their statutory missions in ways that do not threaten the civil rights, civil liberties, and personal privacy of U.S. citizens. To meets its mandate, the CAC hosts various working groups and communities of interest including those focused on thermal issues (wildland fires and volcanoes), environmental security, and historical satellite imagery.   Dan Opstal and Scott Kaplan, with the Civil Applications Committee, discuss the importance of CAC and why having an organization such as this is so important to the community as a whole. They also describe how they are educating individuals and their partners about how CAC can help in their particular missions. Dan also explains some of the challenges in the industry they are trying to mitigate in the industry such as accessibility to data. Scott also went on to elaborate on the need for improved communication between disciplines and how CAC is trying to help with that. Watch or listen to more episodes by Project Geospatial at www.projectgeospatial.com

The interagency Civil Applications Committee (CAC) facilitates the appropriate civil uses of overhead remote sensing technologies and data collected by military and intelligence capabilities, including from commercial sources. The CAC is operated and staffed by the U.S. Geological Survey on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Interior and its interagency partners. The director of the U.S. Geological Survey is the chair of the committee, and the vice-chair is a non-Department of the Interior senior official. The CAC ensures certain Federal civil agencies have access to these remotely sensed assets to meet their statutory missions in ways that do not threaten the civil rights, civil liberties, and personal privacy of U.S. citizens. To meets its mandate, the CAC hosts various working groups and communities of interest including those focused on thermal issues (wildland fires and volcanoes), environmental security, and historical satellite imagery.   Dan Opstal and Scott Kaplan, with the Civil Applications Committee, discuss the importance of CAC and why having an organization such as this is so important to the community as a whole. They also describe how they are educating individuals and their partners about how CAC can help in their particular missions. Dan also explains some of the challenges in the industry they are trying to mitigate in the industry such as accessibility to data. Scott also went on to elaborate on the need for improved communication between disciplines and how CAC is trying to help with that. Watch or listen to more episodes by Project Geospatial at <a href="http://www.projectgeospatial.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.projectgeospatial.com</a>

GEOINT 2022 - Civil Applications Committee - Dan Opstal & Scott Kaplan