Digital governance and hotspot geoinformatics for monitoring, etiology, early warning, and management around the world

ABSTRACT

The five year NSF DGP project has been instrumental to conceptualize hotspot geoinformatics partnership among several interested cross-disciplinary scientists in academia, agencies, and private sector around the world. A declared need is around for statistical geoinformatics and software infrastructure for spatial and spatiotemporal hotspot detection and prioritization. Our efforts are driven by a wide variety of case studies of potential interest to government agencies involving critical society issues, such as public health, ecosystem health, sensor networks, robotic networks, social networks, video mining, homeland security, early warning, and disaster management.

REFERENCES

• 1: G. P. Patil, Geoinformatic hotspot systems (GHS) for detection, prioritization, and early warning, Proceedings of the 2005 national conference on Digital government research, May 15-18, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
      H.4.2 Types of Systems

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Management, Measurement, Security, Theory, Verification

Keywords:
early warning, hotspot detection, hotspot geoinformatics partnership, hotspot prioritization, space-time hotspots