Geoinformatic hotspot systems (GHS) for detection, prioritization, and early warning

Abstract

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