Spatial Data Science and Intelligence Analysis

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This course engages students with the theory and practice of integrating spatial data science with geospatial intelligence tradecraft in a professional context. The world around us has a variety of competitors whose actions impact civil, national, and international security. Spatial data science can help us to understand and predict a competitor's behavior when integrated with geospatial intelligence tradecraft. Students will apply and critique analytical methods and intelligence techniques through case study exercises. Course lessons engage the technical methods found in spatial data science and geospatial intelligence techniques used to create a rational synthesis, known as an intelligence summary, about a given geospatial intelligence situation.