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Hotspot Detection, Prioritization, and Security

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Crime mapping; Early warning; Geoinformatic surveillance; Hotspot detection and prioritization; Mapping and analysis for public safety

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Building on important developments in spatial analysis and fundamental advances in statistical research, and catalyzed by the broad outreach of the Penn State Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics, a diverse partnership has gathered to develop cross-cutting solutions that address issues common to multiple national applications. The focal point is a toolkit for geoinformatic hotspot detection and prioritization that provides a new way to rigorously use the geospatial and spatiotemporal information that is available in a variety of national data products on geographic regions and infrastructure networks. The major information flows may be represented schematically as in Fig. 1.

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A schematic diagram for hotspot geoinformatics decision support-system

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Acknowledgements

This material is based upon work supported by (a) the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0307010, and (b) the United States Environmental Protection Agency under Grants No. CR-83059301 and No. R-828684-01. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the agencies.

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  1. Department of Statistics, Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Ganapati P. Patil

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Raj Acharya

  3. School of Forest Resources and Office for Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Resources, Penn State Institutes of Environment, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Wayne Myers

  4. Division of Information Science and Technology, Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Shashi Phoha

  5. Erallo Technologies Inc. Headquarters, Littleton, MA, USA

    Rajan Zambre

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  1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Shashi Shekhar

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA

    Hui Xiong

  3. Department of Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Xun Zhou

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Patil, G.P., Acharya, R., Myers, W., Phoha, S., Zambre, R. (2017). Hotspot Detection, Prioritization, and Security. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_571

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