GEOINT: Human AI competenc

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course presents the fundamentals of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) analysis, collection, and 21 st century technology, including AI. The material covers the history of the discipline, its contributions to other intelligence sources and methods, and its value to global security, homeland security, and natural resource, energy, and environmental management. Students will learn, through in-class and at-home exercises, how to interpret imagery from different sensors for intelligence significance. The in class and home exercises involve student analysis and AI analysis so students will learn the kinds of intelligence questions that require human analysts, what kinds require AI analytics, and what kind require both. AI challenges current analytic practices and presents issues of accuracy, traceability, and ethics that students will address in the class.