Author_Institution :
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
Gunshot detection systems are a form of geographical information system, a technology that has expanded rapidly in the past two decades and has substantially altered how we deal with the physical landscape. For the past decade, our beloved city has confronted the problems of nightly gunfire with a shot detection network, a web of sensors and computers that identifies a shot´s location before the sounds have finished echoing off buildings and hills. The local police were quite proud of the system, one of the first deployed in the country, because it captured a detailed abstraction of all gunfire.
Keywords :
distributed sensors; geographic information systems; police data processing; geographical information system; gunshot detection systems; physical landscape; sensors; shot detection network; Acoustic sensors; Cities and towns; Computer networks; Gunshot detection systems; Information systems; Computers and society; Gunshot detection systems;