Forensic GIS 2013 - Forensic GIS: The Role of Geospatial Technologies for Investigating Crime and Providing Evidence

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS
Forensic GIS: The Role of Geospatial Technologies for Investigating Crime and Providing Evidence
Edited by Gregory Elmes, George Roedl, and Jamison Conley
Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Proposal Submission Deadline: Friday, December 14, 2012
The Editors invite submissions of chapter proposals and chapter section contributions that can be considered for inclusion in the book, Forensic GIS: The Role of Geospatial Technologies for Investigating Crime and Providing Evidence, which is scheduled to be published by Springer in its popular Geotechnologies and the Environment series (http://www.springer.com/series/8088).
Submissions are invited from the academic, public and private sectors. We welcome contributions dealing with a variety of geospatial technologies (e.g., GIS, GPS, remote sensing) and topics that address the various legal, ethical, and applied aspects of geospatial technologies in solving crime, resolving civil disputes, or prosecuting offenders.
Some examples include:
? GIS in fraud detection/prosecution;
? GPS tracking of suspects;
? GIS maps demonstrating drug sales within school zones or registered sex offender restrictions;
? issues involving constitutional rights, privacy, and digital data;
? geographic profiling;
? preserving crime scene data with HD laser scanning;
? solving environmental crimes or property disputes with remote sensing technologies;
? geospatial modeling of pollution, erosion, or flooding to support / refute civil lawsuits;
? accident reconstruction and/or simulations;
? challenges in admitting and/or making geospatial data understandable in court;
? cell phone tracking/GPS log recovery;
? 311 maps;
? communicating/collaboration issues between various disciplines, researchers, and practitioners;
? history / legal rulings on specific geospatial technologies.
We welcome detailed papers as well as focused contributions and short case study examples.
The full call can be found at http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~elmes/geospatialbook/Callf...
Expressed topics of interest by the editors can be found at http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~elmes/geospatialbook/topic....
Please circulate this call.
Thank you
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Gregory Elmes
West Virginia University
greg.elmes-AT-mail.wvu.edu
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