This week was the introduction into how GIS is used in Homeland Security. We focused on the crime in Washington D.C. and used various techniques to analyze it. This first map is a map is a basic outline of Washington D.C. with all of the police stations labeled. You can see where all the crime take place in relation to the population density.
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Washington D.C. Crime and a graph displaying what types of crimes occurred the most often in January of 2011.
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The second map we created, focuses more on the police stations. We broke down the crimes based on each police station and determined where new substations would work well.
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| The red proposed substations were placed in areas with high crime rates and were relatively far from existing stations. |
The third and final map we created, we used a kernel density tool. I had a lot of issues with this tool, but was able to overcome them with the help of the professors and some fresh data. In this map, I keyed in on three different types of crime, burglary, sex abuse and homicide. I also provided an inset map of the population density for comparison reasons.
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| Density of crime: Burglary, Sex Abuse and Homicide in Washington D.C. in January of 2011. |
This week was definitely challenging but it's always fun to learn new things and find new ways to work around and fix problems.
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