The USGIF is the first organization aimed at bringing together the many disciplines involved in the geospatial intelligence sector to exchange ideas, share best practices, and promote the education and importance of a national geospatial intelligence agenda.
eSpatial, whose USA headquarters is in Virginia, is delighted to join USGIF and be part of the continued support of the Foundation’s vital role as the forum for individuals, companies, and organizations that work in geospatial intelligence.

eSpatial is a world leader in enterprise strength spatial information management software and technology and will bring a wealth of experience to the forum, where members can work together - outside their own organizational and corporate interests - against a mutual goal of improving US national and homeland security through the benefits of their combined experience.

K. Stuart Shea, chairman of the board of directors, USGIF, today welcomed eSpatial to the foundation: “We’re pleased that eSpatial is joining USGIF and so continues to set the trend of rapid growth that began when we launched in January 2004. eSpatial will be an important contributor to our goal of incorporating geospatial intelligence to improve U.S. national and homeland security.”
Philip O’Doherty, CEO, eSpatial commented: “we’re delighted to join USGIF and look forward to sharing knowledge and being part of a foundation building a stronger community of geospatial professionals who together can focus on the development and promotion of technologies and innovative geospatial solutions.”
eSpatial will exhibit and will be participating in the interoperability demonstration later this year at USGIF GeoInt 2006 Symposium, The USA’s Premier Geospatial Intelligence Event, Gaylord Palm, Orlando, Fl., November 13 - 17, 2006.

About eSpatial

eSpatial, founded in Dublin, Ireland and with offices in the USA, is a world leader in enterprise strength spatial information management technology. Its advanced spatial environment, iSMART, in conjunction with Oracle Spatial, provides a platform for highly scalable and secure spatially enabled applications in a standard enterprise IT environment with unprecedented ease of use, manageability and support for OGC Web Services. Its standards based Rapid Application Development environment and GeoPortal allows organizations to quickly and easily build new applications (or extend existing ones) to include spatial functionality. These applications provide spatial intelligence to anyone, anywhere, on any device, connected or disconnected. eSpatial's technology is used in every area of IT including Public Sector, Defense, Telecommunications and Utility organizations.

The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation is a Virginia-based nonstock,
not-for-profit corporation. The Foundation is dedicated to promoting the geospatial
intelligence tradecraft and developing a stronger community of interest between
government, industry, academic and professional organizations and individuals who share a mission focus around the development and application of geospatial intelligence data and geo-processing resources to address national security objectives. For more information on the Foundation, visit www.usgif.org

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