Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security : Research Frontiers and Future Challenges - Sui, Daniel; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security: An Overview -- Remote Sensing and GIS as Counterterrorism Tools for Homeland Security: The case of Afghanistan -- Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks and Natural Disasters: Case Studies of Los Angeles and Houston -- From Crime Analysis to Homeland Security: A Role for Neighborhood Profiling? -- Measuring and Mapping Conflict-Related Deaths and Segregation: Lessons from the Belfast 'Troubles' -- Internal Security for Communities: A Spatial Analysis of the Effectiveness of Sex Offender Laws -- Remote Sensing-Based Damage Assessment for Homeland Security -- Estimating Flood Damage in Texas Using GIS: Predictors, Consequences, and Policy Implications -- Agent-Based Modeling and Evacuation Planning -- Building Evacuation in Emergencies: A Review and Interpretation of Software for Simulating Pedestrian Egress -- High-Resolution Coastal Elevation Data: The Key to Planning for Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise -- Remote Sensing and GIS Applications for Precision Area-Wide Pest Management: Implications for Homeland Security -- Spatial Epidemiology: Where Have We Come in 150 Years? -- The Role of Geosurveillance and Security in the Politics of Fear -- Mapping the Under-Scrutinized: The West German Census Boycott Movement of 1987 and the Dangers of Information-Based Security -- The Importance of Spatial Thinking in an Uncertain World -- GIS and Homeland Security Education: Creating a Better Tomorrow in our Classrooms Today -- Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security: Challenges and Opportunities.
Keywords: Geographical information systems; Remote sensing; Geotechnical engineering; Earth sciences; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Earth Sciences, general