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With the world facing immense challenges, how do we create a safer and more equitable world? Geospatial intelligence offers valuable insights to help organizations and governments protect communities. By using technology to obtain location-based data, these groups can make spatially informed decisions about how best to help people who are most at risk. Learning the technical skills needed to use geographic information systems (GIS) to visualize and interpret this data has never been more essential for working to find resolutions for the numerous challenges humanity faces today. Security First: Geospatial Workflows for a Safe and Equitable World guides readers through specific exercises and examples to show how GIS can be used to address significant world issues while building the technical skills required to work in the field of human security and geospatial intelligence. Through 20 geospatial workflows, Security First covers a breadth of topics found in geospatial security, such as:
- human rights violations,
- vulnerability to flooding,
- concerns around illegal fishing,
- quantifying and mapping land use and land cover change,
- monitoring environmental justice, and
- emergency response and disaster management.