Tuesday, October 08, 2002

NYT article about a GIS tool being used to track the sniper in Maryland leads me to the following statements: Research conducted by Kim Rossmo at Simon Fraser University established a science of analyzing the hunting patterns of a criminal. Here is the text of his presentation. The Maryland/ DC sniper case uses Rigel, a computerized geographic profiling system by Produced by Environmental Criminology Research Inc and uses Arcview, which I have on my desktop here. ECRI has case studies. The resources mention that the software can handle it when criminals deliberately change location to throw off possible geographic profilers. This seems like a neat trick! I couldn't find any explanation for how it does this in the literature. There is a highly rated book called Geographic Profiling by Kim Rossmo The Maryland Sniper Case defies the psychological profilers because the guy lacks nut qualities. He acts sane which leads me to believe he is a terrorist. Also makes geoprofiling seem like the more powerful tool. A precursor invented by a police officer using basic statistical methods helps predict where the criminal will strike next. Briefly described here (Think Pre-crime) The upshot is that GIS is huge and getting more so. Open Source GIS tools are proliferating and the software of the huge GIS companies are being used in new ways all the time. 12:44:34 PM    comment []

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