Esri Releases New Book on Workflows for the Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence Field

Esri, the global provider of location intelligence, has published Security First: Geospatial Workflows for a Safe and Equitable World. Guiding readers through specific exercises and examples, the book demonstrates how GIS can be used to address significant world safety issues while building the technical skills required to work in the field of human security and geospatial intelligence.

Through 20 geospatial workflows, Security First covers a breadth of topics found in geospatial security, including:

• Human rights violations
• Vulnerability to flooding
• Quantifying and mapping land use and land cover change
• Monitoring environmental justice
• Emergency response and disaster management

Each chapter is organized with learning objectives, technical requirements, prerequisite knowledge, a geospatial workflow, analysis, and additional resources. All detailed exercises use ArcGIS software and downloadable data, helping to establish and reinforce the technical skills of readers.

Written for professors, students, and professionals, Security First is the first crowdsourced workbook in the growing field of human security and geospatial intelligence. Written by Darren Martin Ruddell and Dianna Ter-Ghazaryan, professors at the University of Southern California’s Spatial Sciences Institute, the book also includes contributions and edits from other academics teaching or studying human security and geospatial intelligence.