E-raamat: Effective Surveillance for Homeland Security: Balancing Technology and Social Issues

This is a technical book on surveillance technologies that also incorporates consideration of social and legal issues in its opening chapters, which discuss the modeling of trust in global networks, perceptions of terrorism in Germany and its consequences for the acceptance of security and surveillance measures, a scheme for preserving privacy information in video surveillance systems that utilizes encrypted biometric signals, and assessments of the privacy protection afforded by layered scrambling techniques in video surveillance systems. A second group of chapters focuses more specifically on advanced technologies for physical and cyber surveillance, including recognition and representation of temporal, causal, and spatial events in multimedia surveillance systems; the challenges of designing a sensor-based intelligent systems management framework for surveillance systems; behavior detection and prediction and situational awareness methodologies from fusing multiple data sources; ergonomic and human-related factors in surveillance system design; web application vulnerability awareness, assessment, and reduction; detecting different attacks in SCADA network systems; and modeling and counteracting virus diffusion in sensor networks for net-centric surveillance systems. The final set of chapters discusses homeland security applications, including geographic information processing and geographic intelligence technologies for disaster mitigation, human intrusion detection using computer vision, wireless sensor networks and audio signal recognition for homeland security, dynamic Bayesian multitarget tracking for behavior and interaction detection, imaging tunnels and underground facilities using radio-frequency tomography, a framework for ubiquitous monitoring of intermodal cargo containers, and model-based control of building evacuation using feedback from sensor and actuator wireless networks. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Effective Surveillance for Homeland Security: Balancing Technology and Social Issues 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.

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, Surveillance and Society, focuses on the societal dimension of surveillance—stressing the importance of societal acceptability as a precondition to any surveillance system.

Part II, Physical and Cyber Surveillance, 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.

Part III, Technologies for Homeland Security, 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.

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.