Visual Analytics in Public Safety: Example Capabilities for Example Government Agencies

Abstract

This is a short report discussing how Visual Analytics at large can improve capabilities at Canadian Departments and Agencies, such as Canadian Security Intelligence Services (CSIS), Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Public Safety Canada (PSC) and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). The report begins with a brief summary of Visual Analytics. Several indicative visual analytic tools are then presented. These "case study" tools illustrate visual analytic technologies that are at a high Technology Readiness Level (TRL). There follows a description of potential visual analytics opportunities for several representative federal organizations. The report concludes with several recommendations on how the federal government may facilitate the adaptation and exploitation of Visual Analytic tools.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA552531

Entities

People

  • Curtis Garton
  • William Wright

Organizations

  • Oculus Info Inc.

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Case Studies
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Graphics
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Image Processing
  • Information Science
  • Linguistics
  • National Security
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Processing Equipment
  • Public Safety
  • Recognition
  • Security
  • Three Dimensional
  • Visualizations
  • Websites

Readers

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  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Government and Public Administration Law.