Le rapport State and Future of GEOINT publié annuellement par l’US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) rassemble une collection d’articles écrit par de nombreux experts à travers le monde. Destinés à tous les praticiens du GEOINT, ces articles illustrent les tendances de la communauté du GEOINT et apportent une réflexion collective sur l’avenir de la discipline et ses potentielles évolutions.
Le rapport publié cette année compte un article dédié au développement du GEOINT en France auquel j’ai eu le plaisir de contribuer aux côtés du Gal Jean-Daniel Testé, Thierry G. Rousselin, Nicolas Saporiti, Frédéric Hernoust et David Perlbarg.
*Petite correction: Dans cet article il évoqué l’ouverture d’un master GEOINT en septembre 2017, en réalité, cette formation ouvrira ses portes en 2018.
GEOINT on the March: A French Perspective
The French Defense Situation
As a former colonial power involved in many conflicts, France has developed an important military geography culture and tradition. The end of the Cold War followed by the Gulf War in 1990 underlined the strategic role of imagery intelligence and military geography. Both marked the development of Earth observation capabilities to provide self-assessment for French defense with satellite imagery, accurate maps, and standard data products to power army command and weapon systems. When the concept of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) appeared 10 to 15 years ago, the appropriation in France came from small, independent actors who tried to combine imagery intelligence with geographic data (secret services, special forces, or industry SMEs). And French manpower were actors (and sometimes a driving force) in the development of GEOINT at SatCen (the European Union Satellite Center), which played a pioneering role in Europe since 2009. But in recent years, the growing needs of French military forces to benefit relevant and actionable intelligence products pushed the Direction du Renseignement Militaire (DRM) to get new capabilities and empower GEOINT in France. Mainly (and also publicly) carried by DRM and Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE), the rise of GEOINT as a discipline in France was directly influenced by the American approach and experiences. By creating a center dedicated to GEOINT in 2014, DRM showed its will to create a joint synergy inside the French Defense and initiated a transformation of French military intelligence and geography. Named Centre de Renseignement Géospatial Interarmées (CRGI), this center intends to rationalize the institutional means and develop tradecraft for multisource data fusion, the same way DGSE has operated since 2009.
Today, French GEOINT is shared between two main structures: military geography, which is coordinated by […]
Vous retrouverez l’article dans son intégralité ici ou alors dans le rapport de l’USGIF (ci-dessous).
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