Security is a great apprehension in recent flux of terrorism and crime vulnerabilities in general but particularly in mega cities. The major concerns to deal with security matters are monitoring of unforeseen as well as planned or regular criminal activities on regular basis and planning of the available resources to combat the same in an efficient way. Satellite technology coupled with Geographic Information System (GIS) has been used to tackle such issues.
A Security Information System (SIS) based on satellite technologies has been developed for Karachi metropolitan to handle terrorism as well as criminal activities with efficient counter part planning. SIS is mainly capable of mapping/feeding, monitoring, and analyzing both types of datasets; criminal activities as well as available resources. The System has also the capability of real time vehicle tracking used for monitoring anti-criminal and rescue operations.
Satellite Technologies like Remote Sensing and GPS for real time position monitoring along with GIS tool are highly useful to deal with security issues at local as well as regional level. |
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