Our big project for Geospatial Intelligence was to propose a site for a new Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia.
Liberia is where the west coast of Africa transitions from mostly north/south to mostly west/east. (I believe it's ok to use Google maps on blogs, as long as we leave the Google logo on them.)
I know a lot more about Monrovia than I ever imagined knowing.....
If you are interested in knowing the locations of the Ebola cases in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, click through to this page from the BBC and scroll down to the map.....
For the Geospatial Intelligence project, we looked at maps of Monrovia, taking various sorts of into into consideration. The lay of the land. The human activity (commercial, medical, recreational, roads, transportation available, location of police stations, etc.). The locations of the existing Ebola treatment centers (ETCs) in Monrovia.
We had a list of criteria for the new ETC, and three proposed locations. We hunted up info we were not given, weighed the factors, examined and defined our assumptions, and made recommendations.
This was a very good assignment. We got a glimpse at the sort of work a geospatial intelligence analyst might actually do, in the real world. Pretty cool, to get enough of a look into the GEOINT world to give us a glimmering of what it might be like to do that work!
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