2004 UC Proceedings Abstract

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Preventing Terrorism: Geographic Text Search Improves Homeland Security
Track: Defense and Intelligence
Author(s): Randy Ridley

Intelligence and law enforcement agencies collect massive amounts of data. Timely, relevant information is critical to the homeland security mission. Manually reading and analyzing volumes of unstructured text-based information remains a huge obstacle to basic analytical tasks and real-time homeland security measures. Significant information contained in documents can contain vital clues to a pending attack. Where unstructured text-based information helps analysts and agents understand critical information, geography can serve as a powerful lens for synthesizing and analyzing documents. Properly deployed, this geographic lens can bring new value and a new viewpoint to homeland security efforts. Geographic Text Search bridges the gap between GIS and traditional text search tools, creating an innovative method to reveal new information.

Randy Ridley
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