Nordic Geospatial Blog –

At the confluence of Counter IED robotics, C4ISR, GIS Situational Awareness and LIDAR/HDS (High Definition Surveying)…

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/3d-mapping-drone-fires-off-lasers-from-a-mile-away-video/

The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), established in 1994 at the University of St.Andrews, is Europe’s oldest centre for the study of political violence.

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~wwwir/research/cstpv/somalia/

The National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health

http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/training.htm

Agenda and Videos

David Abramson, PhD Research Director, NCDP
Irwin Redlener, MD, Director, NCDP
Introductory Remarks
(Video: 10 minutes)

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Tony Jebara, PhD, Co-Founder of Sense Networks
Learning Networks of People & Places from Mobile Data
(Video & Slides: 55 minutes)

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Eric Rasmussen, MD, CEO of Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters (InSTEDD)
Geospatial Intelligence, Social Data and Public Health
(Video & Slides: 52 minutes)

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Charles DiMaggio, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
Dr. Snow Meets the Rev. Bayes: Spatial Approaches to Disaster Epidemiology
(Video & Slides: 47 minutes)

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Steven Johnson (Keynote Speaker)
Author of The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – And How it Changed Cities, Science, and the Modern World
(Video: 1 hour, 10 minutes)

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Jeb Weisman, PhD, Chief Information Officer, the Children’s Health Fund
Introductory Remarks for Afternoon Speakers
(Video: 2 minutes)

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Chris Goranson, GIS Director of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Volunteered Geographic Information – Present and Future(Video & Slides: 35 minutes)

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David Abramson, PhD, Research Director, NCDP & Brian Willison, Director of the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM)
A Presentation of the American HotSpots Project
(Video & Slides: 27 minutes)

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Mark Smith, PhD, Epidemiologist, Guilford County Department of Public Health, North Carolina
Rapid Assessment: Mobile GIS for Public Health Response
(Video & Slides: 23 minutes)