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Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security

Research Frontiers and Future Challenges

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Editors:
  1. Daniel Z. Sui

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

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  • Comprehensive review of the latest geospatial technologies for homeland security and emergency management applications
  • Covering a diverse topics, ranging from technical, methodological, social, and educational issues
  • Written by leading academic researchers in geospatial technologies and homeland security/emergency management

Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 94)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  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.

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

    Daniel Z. Sui

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