Effective Surveillance for Homeland Security

<p><strong>Effective Surveillance for Homeland Security: Balancing Technology and Social Issues</strong> provides a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art methods and tools for the surveillance and protection of citizens and critical infrastructures against natural and deliberate threats. Focusing on current technological challenges involving multi-disciplinary problem analysis and systems engineering approaches it provides an overview of the most relevant aspects of surveillance systems in the framework of homeland security.<br><br>Addressing both advanced surveillance technologies and the related socio-ethical issues the book consists of 21 chapters written by international experts from the various sectors of homeland security. Part I <em>Surveillance and Society</em> focuses on the societal dimension of surveillance—stressing the importance of societal acceptability as a precondition to any surveillance system.<br><br>Part II <em>Physical and Cyber Surveillance</em> presents advanced technologies for surveillance. It considers developing technologies that are part of a framework whose aim is to move from a simple collection and storage of information toward proactive systems that are able to fuse several information sources to detect relevant events in their early incipient phase.<br><br>Part III <em>Technologies for Homeland Security</em> considers relevant applications of surveillance systems in the framework of homeland security. It presents real-world case studies of how innovative technologies can be used to effectively improve the security of sensitive areas without violating the rights of the people involved.<br><br>Examining cutting-edge research topics the book provides you with a comprehensive understanding of the technological legislative organizational and management issues related to surveillance. With a specific focus on privacy it presents innovative solutions to many of the issues that remain in the quest to balance security with the preservation of privacy that society demands.</p>