NGA Crunching Climate Change Data for National Security Decision-Making
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is looking at unclassified data sources to broaden its understanding of climate change – an issue that one NGA official said this week will become a primary agency focus going forward.
Dave Birchett, national GEOINT officer for economics and threat finance at NGA, explained the agency’s evolving approach to studying climate change at a GEOConnect Series Main Stage event hosted by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF). At the event, government experts discussed the critical role of the Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) community in future efforts against climate change.