Surveillance Geoinformatics of Hotspot Detection and Prioritization for Monitoring, Etiology, Early Warning
and Sustainable Management
by G.P. Patil

Short Courses and Case Studies Workshops Around the World

• Jalgaon, India (December 15-30, 2009)
• University Park, PA USA (May 14-18, 2009)
• Bogor, Indonesia (December 28-30, 2008)
• Jalgaon, India (December 14-24, 2008)
• Jalgaon, India (July 18-28, 2008)
• Jalgaon, India (March 8-24, 2008)
• Bogor, Indonesia (January 18-25, 2008)
• Bangkok, Thailand (January 12-16, 2008)
• Jalgaon, India (December 15-29, 2007)
• Macao, China (December 10-13, 2007)
• Jalgaon, India (November 13-23, 2007)
• University Park, PA, USA (May 14-18, 2007)
• Hiroshima, Japan (January 15, 2007)
• Macao, China (January 10-11, 2007)
• Bogor, Indonesia (December 27-30, 2006)
• New Delhi, India (December 26, 2006)
• Jalgaon, India (December 11-22, 2006)
• San Diego, USA (May 21-24, 2006)
• Parma, Italy (March 30-31, 2006: October 1, 2006)

Course Instructor and Workshop Leader

Administrative Information and Registration

Registration fees will be reduced/waived for graduate research students, interested government scientists and acceptable case studies presenters.

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Motivation, Description, and Timeliness

Geoinformatic surveillance for spatial and temporal hotspot detection and prioritization is a critical need for the 21st Century. A declared need is around for statistical geoinformatics and software infrastructure for spatial and spatiotemporal hotspot detection, prioritization, early warning, and sustainable management. A hotspot can mean an unusual phenomenon, anomaly, aberration, outbreak, elevated cluster, critical area. The declared need may be for monitoring, etiology, early warning, or management. The responsible factors may be natural, accidental, or intentional. 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 across the nations.

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Technical, Scientific, Picturesque Reference Material

• Overview PowerPoint
• Poster PowerPoint
• Poster Two Pager
• Demo Two Pager
• Project Highlights Two Pager
• Hotspot Detection Paper
• Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics
• Hotspots Project Initiatives
• NSF Digital Government Research Program Online News
  DGOnline News 2004 and 2006
• Networks and Infrastructure
• Raster Map Analysis
• Landscape Pattern Analysis for Assessing Ecosystem Condition (Johnson and Patil)
• Pattern Based Compression of Multi Band Image Data for Landscape Analysis (Myers and Patil)
• Article on the workshop program on hotspot geoinformatics
• Freeware for circular spatial scan program and information
• Freeware for academia for Hasse program for Windows
  

The following web links are of some informative papers.

• G. P. Patil and C. Taillie (2003).  Geographic and network surveillance via scan statistics for critical area detection.  Statistical Science, 18 (4), 457-465.

• G. P. Patil and C. Taillie. (2004a).  Upper level set scan statistic for detecting arbitrarily shaped hotspots.  Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 11 (2), 183-198.

• G. P. Patil and C. Taillie (2004b).  Multiple indicators, partially ordered sets, and linear extensions:  Multi-criterion ranking and prioritization.  Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 11 (2), 199-228.

• G.P. Patil, Raj Acharya, Amy Glasmeier, Wayne Myers, Shashi Phoha, and Stephen Rathbun (2006d).  Hotspot Detection and Prioritization – Geoinformatics for Digital Governance, In:  Digital Government:  Advanced Research and Case Studies.  Springer Publ., H. Chen. L. Brandt, V. Gregg, R. Traunmüller, S. Dawes, E. Hovy, A. Macintosh, C. Larson (Editors).

• G.P. Patil, Raj Acharya, Wayne Myers, Shashi Phoha, and Rajan Zambre, Hotspot Geoinformatics for Detection, Prioritization, and Security (2006g).  In:  Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science, Shashi Shekhar and Hui Xiong (Editors).