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Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security: Research Frontiers and Future Challenges

This edited volume, based upon the papers presented during the “Geospatial Technologies and Homeland Security Symposium” on Nov. 15, 2006, presents an overview of the latest development of...More

Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems

Wildland fires are becoming one of the most critical environmental factors affecting a wide range of ecosystems worldwide. In Mediterranean ecosystems (including also South-Africa, California,...More

Learning from Catastrophes: Strategies for Reaction and Response

Earthquakes. Pandemics. Global economic crises. Terrorism. Whether natural or man-made, massive catastrophes happen far more often than decision-makers once imagined. Organizations must prepare...More

Spatial Management of Risks

Spatial analysis is an increasingly important tool for detecting and preventing numerous risk and crisis phenomena such as floods in a geographical area. This book concentrates on examples of...More

Artificial Crime Analysis Systems: Using Computer Simulations and Geographic Information Systems

In the last decade there has been a phenomenal growth in interest in crime pattern analysis. Geographic information systems are now widely used in urban police agencies throughout industrial...More

Disaster Response: GIS for Public Safety

Confronting Catastrophe: A GIS Handbook

A hands-on manual for helping communities face the threat of large-scale disasters, wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, and terrorist incidents.

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Towards a Global Licensing Framework for Geospatial Data

Is it time for a global licensing framework for geospatial data? The GSDI Legal and Economic Working group thinks so and offered a presentation and a way forward at the GSDI 13 conference held in Quebec City in May. The effort aims to harmonize existing licensing without changing fundamental access policies and funding models and be compatible with the diferences in national legal systems. That's a tall order, but an important one as the world moves toward geodata sharing. Geoff Zeiss reports.