2004 UC Proceedings Abstract
 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 MetaCarta 875 mass ave cambridge , MA 01801 US Phone: 617-661-6382 E-mail: bfisher@metacarta.com |
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