GEOGRAPHIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR HOMELAND SECURITY. IN: THE GEOGRAPHICAL DIMENSIONS OF TERRORISM

The time frame in which contemporary decisionmakers, planners, and emergency managers must make critical choices has collapsed from days to minutes, and in this accelerated and noisy operating environment they are expected to manage multiple, and often conflicting, missions concurrently. Preparedness planners and first responders are overwhelmed by data, yet at the same time they are starved for valuable information. Confronted with large amounts of increasingly real-time geographic data, they lack the resources needed to transform this potentially valuable data into relevant spatial information. Once vital information is created, only primitive tools exist for sharing it among disparate and geographically dispersed stakeholders. To address these seemingly intractable challenges, diffuse, multisource, and dynamic geographic data must somehow be fused into flexible streams of relevant information that allow decisionmakers to make better and more critical decisions within increasingly shorter time frames. This challenge is the focus of this paper.

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  • Accession Number: 00977728
  • Record Type: Publication
  • ISBN: 0415946425
  • Report/Paper Numbers: SP-1772,, Paper No. 2003-01-0126, Paper No. 2003-01-0127
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Aug 4 2004 12:00AM