GIS Tutorial for Homeland Security
Published on 1. August 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-1-58948-188-6 (ISBN)
Description
GIS Tutorial for Homeland Security presents a key ingredient to the recovery and improvement of national security with exercises that integrate the best practices of GIS technology and public safety to safeguard communities in times of deliberate attacks and natural disasters. ""GIS Tutorial for Homeland Security"" is the perfect start to building and examining different strategies of defense, presenting tutorials on preparing a Minimum Essential Datasets (MEDS) database, information sharing and collaboration, disseminating indicators and warnings, establishing a critical infrastructure protection program, citizen protection, search and rescue, and more. This book includes a fully functioning 180-day trial version of ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 software on DVD and a CD of data for working through the exercises.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Redlands
United States
Publishing group
ESRI Press
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
684
ISBN-13
978-1-58948-188-6 (9781589481886)
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Persons
Susan Lindell Radke is founder and president of Berkeley Geo-Research Group, an Orinda, California, GIS company. She has more than 25 years of experience in developing GIS projects, geospatial information management systems, database programming, computer network systems, environmental planning, and geography education. Eddie Hanebuth is founder and president of Digital Quest, a Mississippi-based development and training-oriented company that produces GIS instructional material for educational institutions. He chairs the U.S. Department of Labor's National Standard Geospatial Apprenticeship Program and the SkillsUSA Geospatial Competition Committee, and runs the SPACESTARS teacher-training laboratory in the Center of Geospatial Excellence, NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center.