Those maps illustrate how GIS can effectively be used to design and plan security details for the safeguard of critical infrastructures and the safety of our citizens. For the creation of those maps we used 2D and 3D spatial tools to locate optimal surveillance positions around Memorial stadium in California. To control the Ingress and Egress from the Area of Interest (AOI), strategic locations for road blocks had to be identified and assembly points for evacuation outside of an impacted area were also sited. This project reinforced the vital role GIS can play in identifying the most likely targets for natural or men made disasters as well as who and what may be impacted by such events.

Once the DHS Urban Area was delineated, I added the boundary data to the Minimum Essential Data Sets database (MEDS). This exercise did accentuate on how meaningful it is to organize the processing and presentation of the data and it also emphasize on how useful and helpful it is to group each category of data according to its classification.

I learned quite a bit in this exercise. I polished my skills on how to download data from ESRI Census TIGER/Line data Web site; refreshed my memory on how to merge multiple shapefiles and became very familiar on how to define a shapefile coordinate system.

3353 crimes were committed in Lincoln Nebraska during the month of August 2006. This graph explores crime throughout a 24 hour period.
It shows that 5:00 AM is the time of the day when crime is at the lowest rate and 10:00 PM when related crime activities such as assault, burglary, shoplifting occurred the most.

This density map illustrates the level of crime in Lincoln, Nebraska. This map depicts how rampant crime is in this community regardless the proximity of a police station.

The Equally weighted Overlay presents to our audience in this particular case the student from Central Ohio College for the Arts (COCA) a good pool of listener for that may be interested in listening to a Lower Power FM campus radio station.
The best areas will meet almost if not all of their criteria. The demographic, as well as the short commuting distance from COCA to the radio station will all be met while keeping the competition (OSU LPFM) at bay.

The Distance Weighted Overlay offers COCA’s students all the advantages that come with of living, studying or working close to home. This is probably the closest comparisons or experience some of them will ever achieve from their life time to a "Live and work” environment. The best areas are extremely far away from OSU Lower Power FM campus radio station; thus a much better possibility for COCA’s students to keep and maintain their audience.

The two weighted overlays have their pros and cons and to help the COCA’s students in their future location decision making I will have definitely included Ethnicity, Education Level, Occupation and perhaps Income range of my targeted pool of listener.

This a basemap of Franklin County tracts showing Ohio State University, several places within the county and Central Ohio College for the Arts.