Group E
 Safdar Mahmood G.R
 Arsalan Rehman
 Rana Naveed
 Waleed Butt
 M.Faraz Zafar
 Mukaram Rabani
GIS PLAYS VITAL ROLE
IN HOMELAND SECURITY
 The power of a Geographic Information System (GIS)
is its capability to graphically organize and display a
series of location-based information, such as roads,
buildings, and rivers.
 . For years, the technology has been used by engineers,
land development planners, and environmental
scientists. Today, in the wake of increasing terrorism
concerns, governments and commercial companies
around the world are looking to GIS to support their
security initiatives.
 The United States has implemented an aggressive
campaign to strengthen its "Homeland Security". New
safety-oriented programs at federal agencies, regional
governments, and commercial enterprises have
heightened the demand for visual mapping databases.
GIS applications, topographic base maps, remote
sensing data, and vector layers (i.e. roads, rivers,
buildings) are now the basis for assessing security risks
and modeling emergency scenarios.
A Geographic Information System
A GIS is similar,
layering mapped
information in a
computer to help us
view our world as a
system
What Does GIS Do?
It locates:
 Physical infrastructure, like water and sewer pipes
What Does GIS Do?
It allows questions to be asked from the map side or
from the database side
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THE IMPORTANCE OF
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
SYSTEMS
 The ability of GIS to search databases and perform
geographic queries has revolutionized many areas of
science and business. It can be invaluable during a
decision-making process.
 The information can be presented succinctly and
clearly in the form of a map and accompanying report,
allowing decision makers to focus on the real issues
rather than trying to understand the data. Because GIS
products can be produced quickly, multiple scenarios
can be evaluated efficiently and effectively. For this
reason, in today’s world, the ability to use GIS is
increasingly important.
GIS In Public Health
ABSTRACT
 Important objects in health databases are patients,
doctors, infrastructural facilities, and health services.
Nevertheless, all these objects have spatial dimensions
and mutual interaction in their inheritance. The
understanding of these dimensions and interactions
are the key for health planning and management.
 Moreover, it allows policy makers to easily visualize the
problems in relation to the resources and prevailing
needs. Spatial dimensions of health data give detailed
and compelling answers to the difficult questions
health service providers ask every day.
 The spatial contexts in accurate format are vital for
integrating health attributes in the form of
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) especially at
the micro-scale. There are many potential users, but
the major users will include National and Provincial
health departments, Planning Commissions,
researchers, etc.
 Undoubtedly, a health objects database could be a
huge and difficult task to manage. Nonetheless, in
Pakistan, precedence from National Database and Re- gistration Authority (NADRA) is a good example of
how to handle the quantity.
The Importance of GIS in
Battlefield Surveillance
 Major Jagmohan Singh
General Staff Officer-2
Project Management Organisation
Battlefield Surveillance System
Army Headquarters
Introduction
 1. The ability to strike first, strike deep and strike
effectively is of paramount importance for gaining
success in operations of war. The manifestation of this
ability in a battlefield requires not only firepower in
terms of lethal and long-range weapon system but also
an effective command and control system, which is
essential for accurate and timely application of
firepower.
 2. Battlefield Surveillance is one of the most important
force multipliers which are essential for winning the
future battles. Modern techniques in handling and
processing the vast information are getting more user
friendly and useful to the decision makers in the
armed forces.
 Most of the countries in the world are taking initiatives
in modernizing their Armies in order to keep
respectable pace with fast changing battlefield
scenarios in modern technological environment.
 Aim
3. The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance
of GIS and related technologies in the field of
Battlefield Surveillance.
 Battlefield Transparency. The battlefield
surveillance would play a major role in the decision
making in the future battles. Employment of satellites
and aerial assets would prove to be a decisive factor.
GIS technologies would be employed extensively for
processing the large amount of information and
delivering it to the decision makers in the desired
format in acceptable time frame.
Civil Engineering projects involve the management, analysis and
integration of large amounts of geographic information to ensure
success. This can include a wide range of information such as
detailed design drawings originating from CAD solutions,
detailed mapping, air photography, geological investigations,
population information, traffic flows and environmental models.
 GIS – the intelligent platform for civil IT
With increasingly complex projects, the interaction of
often international multidisciplinary functions requires
the introduction of effective and efficient data
management and sharing solutions.
 GIS provides the civil engineer with tools for creating,
managing, analysing and visualising all types of
geographic information. GIS is now being used by
Civil Engineers in every application domain and
throughout every aspect of the enterprise, be it on the
desktop, in the field, or in collaboration with others.
 ArcGIS is recognised by today’s civil engineers as the
intelligent choice for work in site development,
hydraulics, hydrology, surveying, transportation,
planning and public works. ArcGIS provides the rich
set of databases and spatial tools needed to manage
civil information for design, modeling and
maintenance. Data is taken from many different
sources and file formats and integrated into a single
application platform to support complex civil
engineering workflows.
ROLE OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
SYSTEMS (GIS) IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Introduction
 Effective and realistic emergency management programs depend on data from various
sources which should be collected, analyzed, displayed, disseminated and used in an
organized manner.
 It is therefore desirable to have the right data in the right place at the right time. The
data should be organized in a usable format for stakeholders to respond and take action in
case of an emergency.
 Most of the emergency data requirements are of spatial nature hence a need for a
Geographic Information System (GIS).
Role of GIS in Disaster Risk Assessment
 Disaster management starts with locating and identifying potential emergency problems
and how they relate to the existing environment.
 What facilities exist in impact zones, location of mitigation facilities such as fire
stations, potential refugee and IDP camps, spread of spills, location of medical facilities,
extent of damage and infestation, water sources and any humanitarian intervention.
 GIS provides a mechanism to integrate data from a variety of sources, analyze it and
present it to planners and decision makers in a time and reliable manner.
GIS Implementation
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