Homeland Security | |
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| Homeland Security Port Security – All goods arriving from overseas locations arrive at a port of entry. The threat to national security from shipments into the United States is significant. Monitoring shipments for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) is a daunting task. Security of ports is also a major area of concern. To effectively and efficiently detect and deter threats requires knowing where and when a shipment came from and where and when is its projected final point of delivery. Geospatial location information is required. Today, no efficient and effective systems are in place to geospatially manage shipments and individual assets. Furthermore, the identification of geospatial information concerning shipments cannot be efficiently administered using existing geospatial location identification standards.
Incident Management – The investigation of homeland security incidents require a collaborative effort to receive and analyze law enforcement information, intelligence, and other information in order to understand the nature and scope of the threat. Geospatial analysis of the incident is required. No efficient and effective coordinated system is currently in place to geospatially manage information regarding a homeland security incident. Border Security – Border security requires identification of individuals who seek to enter the United States illegally and pose a security threat. In order to assess the potential threat, individuals need to be identified and monitored. Geospatial analysis of their movements is a key element of threat assessment and interdiction. No efficient and effective systems are in place to geospatially monitor potential terrorists who seek to enter the United States and pose significant threats. Infrastructure Security - Comprehensively assessing the vulnerabilities of the key resources and critical infrastructures in the United States is required. Once vulnerabilities are identified, agencies involved with homeland security must develop a comprehensive plan for securing key resources and critical infrastructures. Geospatial analysis can assist in vulnerability assessments and the development of security plans.
Information Synthesis - Integrating relevant information, intelligence analyses, and vulnerability assessments, provided or produced by other agencies, is required in order to identify protective priorities and support protective measures. In today’s intelligence environment, synthesis of this information geospatially is required. This cannot be efficiently performed without a geospatial data management standard for rapidly analyzing location attributes. GFI's Geocode® increases the productivity in geospatial analysis, reduces the data overhead for transmission of geospatial information over telecommunication networks, enables the representation of a pinpoint location down to within 3 cm horizontally and 1 meter vertically, and enables better information security by eliminating the use of alpha text characters necessary for most decryption techniques. |
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Information Systems Security - Information systems are under constant threat. Geospatial analysis of the threats is paramount. This cannot be efficiently performed with multiple location identification attributes. 
