Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security: An Overview

   • Daniel Z. Sui

   Pages 1-9

3. Remote Sensing and GIS as Counterterrorism Tools for Homeland Security: The case of Afghanistan

   • John Jack Shroder

   Pages 11-33

4. Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks and Natural Disasters: Case Studies of Los Angeles and Houston

   • Qisheng Pan, Peter Gordon, James E. Moore II, Harry W. Richardson

   Pages 35-64

5. From Crime Analysis to Homeland Security: A Role for Neighborhood Profiling?

   • David I. Ashby, Spencer Chainey, Paul A. Longley

   Pages 65-81

6. Measuring and Mapping Conflict-Related Deaths and Segregation: Lessons from the Belfast ‘Troubles’

   • Victor Mesev, Joni Downs, Aaron Binns, Richard S. Courtney, Peter Shirlow

   Pages 83-101

7. Internal Security for Communities: A Spatial Analysis of the Effectiveness of Sex Offender Laws

   • Douglas F. Wunneburger, Miriam Olivares, Praveen Maghelal

   Pages 103-124

8. Remote Sensing-Based Damage Assessment for Homeland Security

   • Anthony M. Filippi

   Pages 125-169

9. Estimating Flood Damage in Texas Using GIS: Predictors, Consequences, and Policy Implications

   • Samuel D. Brody, Sammy Zahran

   Pages 171-188

10. Agent-Based Modeling and Evacuation Planning

    • F. Benjamin Zhan, Xuwei Chen

    Pages 189-208

11. Building Evacuation in Emergencies: A Review and Interpretation of Software for Simulating Pedestrian Egress

    • Christian J. E. Castle, Paul A. Longley

    Pages 209-228

12. High-Resolution Coastal Elevation Data: The Key to Planning for Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise

    • Mark Monmonier

    Pages 229-240

13. Remote Sensing and GIS Applications for Precision Area-Wide Pest Management: Implications for Homeland Security

    • Yanbo Huang, Yubin Lan, John K. Westbrook, Wesley C. Hoffmann

    Pages 241-255

14. Spatial Epidemiology: Where Have We Come in 150 Years?

    • Michael Ward

    Pages 257-282

15. The Role of Geosurveillance and Security in the Politics of Fear

    • Jeremy W. Crampton

    Pages 283-300

16. Mapping the Under-Scrutinized: The West German Census Boycott Movement of 1987 and the Dangers of Information-Based Security

    • Matthew Hannah

    Pages 301-314

17. The Importance of Spatial Thinking in an Uncertain World

    • Robert S. Bednarz, Sarah W. Bednarz

    Pages 315-330

18. GIS and Homeland Security Education: Creating a Better Tomorrow in our Classrooms Today

    • David H. McIntyre, Andrew G. Klein

    Pages 331-344

19. Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security: Challenges and Opportunities

    • Michael F. Goodchild

    Pages 345-353

20. Back Matter

    Pages 355-356

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Homeland security and context In the Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism (GDOT) (Cutter et al. 2003), the first book after 9/11 to address homeland security and geography, we developed several thematic research agendas and explored intersections between geographic research and the importance of context, both geographical and political, in relationship to the concepts of terrorism and security. It is good to see that a great deal of new thought and research continues to flow from that initial research agenda, as illustrated by many of the papers of this new book, entitled Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security: Research Frontiers and Future Challenges. Context is relevant not only to understanding homeland security issues broadly, but also to the conduct of research on geospatial technologies. It is impossible to understand the implications of a homeland security strategy, let alone hope to make predictions, conduct meaningful modeling and research, or assess the value and dangers of geospatial technologies, without consideration of overarching political, social, economic, and geographic contexts within which these questions are posed.

• Emergency Management
• GIS
• Geoinformationssysteme
• Homeland Security
• Security
• Social Sciences
• Surveillance
• geoinformatics
• geospatial
• remote sensing

• Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

  Daniel Z. Sui

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