Beyond the commercial and public utility of stuff in space, militaries and intelligence agencies rely heavily on stuff in space for reconnaissance, mapping, and intelligence, keeping track of forces in the field, planning missions and logistics, eavesdropping on communications, and watching for missile launches and nuclear detonations.
The abandoned camp had a slaughterhouse, an auto repair shop, buildings where military strategists could study maps and intelligence information, sturdy barracks for 5,000 fighters and bathrooms with showers and running water.
The Allied campaign was plagued by ill-defined goals, poor planning, insufficient artillery, inexperienced troops, inaccurate maps and intelligence, overconfidence, inadequate equipment and logistics, and tactical deficiencies at all levels.
While the Allied forces possessed inaccurate maps and intelligence and proved unable to exploit the terrain to their advantage, the Ottoman commanders were able to utilise the high ground around the Allied landing beaches to position well-sited defences that limited the Allied forces' ability to penetrate inland, confining them to narrow beaches.
In terms of mapping and terrain intelligence it probably competes with MemoryMap and ViewRanger to an extent.
"Just like nowadays there's no Excel department in a company because people know how to use it, we're going to see the same thing happen with mapping and location intelligence," de la Torre says.
However, as mapping gets more sophisticated, and data becomes more real time, polls may pass out of common use as social mapping and artificial intelligence fueled with big data creates predictive programs that more accurately anticipate voter behavior.
His thorough knowledge of the country guaranteed him map-making and intelligence assignments in Turkish-occupied Bosnia to gather information in preparation for an upcoming new war against Turkey.
American officials subsequently said that the bombing was an accident resulting from the use of outdated maps and incorrect intelligence information, but China has rejected this explanation.
For 12 years since the Gulf war, the military has been poring over maps of Iraq and intelligence reports in preparation for a possible war.
The photographs were then given to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which analyzes imagery and map-based intelligence for policymakers and the national-security community.
