Colonel John Fitzgerald Calls for User-Friendly Focus in GIS Development
Senior Staff Officer for Intelligence Policy with NATO, Colonel John Fitzgerald's role focuses on Geospatial Imagery and JISR, making him instrumental in shaping and defining the strategic goals for international military staff in this area. We caught up with him to find out how he thinks GIS is changing the way the armed forces make decisions, and how the actions arising from those decisions are carried out.According to Col. Fitzgerald, it all stems from improved intelligence gathering: " Commanders, analysts and operators are much better able to visualise and assess critical situations in