Steve Fleming

COL [R] Steven Fleming (Ph.D.) is a Professor of Geospatial Science and Intelligence with the Institute for Environmental and Spatial Analysis and the University of North Georgia. Prior to joining IESA, he served for seven years as a Professor of the Practice of Spatial Sciences at the Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI) of the University of Southern California’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and as a Research Professor with USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies. He currently holds adjunct professorship in these roles. Prior to him joining USC in 2015, he served on active duty for 30 years, gaining operational combat experience with Joint and NATO units/staffs on multiple deployments in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He culminated his military career at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, where he served as an Academy Professor of Geospatial Information Science and Deputy Head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering. With a teaching background in physical geography, remote sensing, photogrammetry, surveying, geographic information systems, cartography, military geospatial operations, and geospatial intelligence, Dr. Fleming taught capstone courses at USC and at West Point in graduate and undergraduate-level human security and geospatial intelligence academic programs as well as remote sensing, human security, disaster management, and other geographic information science and technology courses. He will continue to teach courses in these areas at the University of North Georgia.

• GEOG 1111K - Introduction to Physical Geography
• GEOG 3010 - Military Geography
• GISC 3800K/5800K - Geospatial Intelligence
• GISC 4800K - Geospatial intelligence Capstone