Geoinformatic surveillance for spatial
and temporal hotspot detection and prioritization is a critical need
for the 21st century Digital Government. A hotspot can mean an unusual
phenomenon, anomaly, aberration, outbreak, elevated cluster, or critical
area.
The declared need may be for monitoring, etiology, management, or
early warning. The responsible factors may be natural, accidental
or intentional, with relevance to both infrastructure and homeland
security. This involves critical societal issues, such as carbon
budgets, water resources, ecosystem health, public health, drinking
water distribution system, persistent poverty, environmental justice,
crop pathogens, invasive species, biosecurity, biosurveillance, remote
sensor networks, early warning and homeland security.
The geosurveillance provides an excellent opportunity, challenge,
and vehicle for synergistic collaboration of computational, technical,
and social scientists.
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