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Adie Gerber
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- Adie
Gerber joined the South African National Defence Force initially for National
Service in 1986 and as permanent force member in 1988. After completion of
training as Army Intelligence Officer he was posted to the 2nd South
West African Special Forces Unit (2 SWA Spes), functioning as Unit Intelligence
Officer as well as Unit Adjutant and Company Second In Command during specific
operational deployments. From 2 SWA Spes he was posted to Western Province Command
Head Quarters functioning as Intelligence Collection and Processing officer.
- Adie
was posted to the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (JARIC) at the
end of 1990 after completion of the Senior Image Interpretation Course. At
JARIC he completed training as image analyst, progressing to holding the posts
of Head of Photo Interpretation (PI) and Head of Project support for 3 and 2
years respectively.
- Adie
also attended a TITUS training course, presented by GDTA in Toulouse, France
and a course at JARIC presented by French instructors. He was part of the team
that developed the new Senior Image Interpretation Course in line with new
technologies and concepts. This necessitated research into new or additional
training material as well as the upgrading of JARIC’s course ware. Part of his training responsibility was the
generation of new training exercises as well as new or improved subjects such
as Introduction to PI, Digital PI, Product compilation and Panoramic Scaling
and Measuring. Adie was also involved in the specification, testing and implementation
of the Military Image Interpretation Computer System (MIICS), as well as presenting
of all system related training on the Military Image Interpretation Computer
System (MIICS) used by JARIC. As Section Head of PI he was expected to present
lectures and briefings to students on courses at JARIC as well as to visitors
to the unit which included visitors from foreign countries. Lectures and briefings were also presented at
other Military Institutions, National Intelligence agency members, SA Police
Services Conferences, and as part of courses held by the CSIR which included a
number of foreign students.
- After
leaving JARIC in 1998 he joined Infoplan for two years as an operational
consultant on Image Exploitation systems.
- Adie
has been assisting clients such as farmers, legal practitioners and security system
providers by providing advisory or expert witness testimony based on
information extracted from imagery. Other cases involved related to the use of
CCTV and crime scene imagery, human recognition, etc.
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