Fear quickly became, for English speakers, a source of on-the-ground information about Operation Pillar of Cloud.
In recent years, the US has deepened its cooperation with the Ethiopian intelligence agencies to try to get on-the-ground information on Somalia.
This is a welcome turn of events, one that suggests that counterterrorism has come to rely on knowledge, on on-the-ground information, on patience, and on strategic methods of investigation and pursuit.
But while researchers have satellite images to track the icebergs that break off, and have created models to simulate the thawing, they have little on-the-ground information and so have trouble predicting precisely how fast sea levels will rise.
FlightStats allows you to search by flight number, airport and route, and provides basic on-the-ground information at your departure and destination cities. Units Plus The interface is a little simplistic, but this is the best free currency and units converter that I've used.
All those diverse inputs, all that cross-boundary creative collaboration ("friction," even), all the visibility into so many organizational silos, and all those multi-level sources of on-the-ground information that, if attention is paid, can answer questions you didn't even know you had.
These devices can act as an active source of big data by providing on-the-ground information in the form of images or sensed data.
The Chinese government usually restricts journalists' visits to sensitive Tibetan areas - something the US government has recently complained about - so it is difficult to get on-the-ground information.
The information dissemination of social media can enhance timely situation awareness in a crisis situation, because they can report on-the-ground information from general public and allow the government to spread information to a wide group of people.
Researchers are also studying new and innovative ways to optimize road assessments following natural disasters.13 This new research agenda, funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, utilizes on-the-ground information culled from social media to identify possible areas of road damage.
