What Publicly Available Geospatial Information Is Significant to Potential Attackers’ Needs?

In the preceding chapter, we focused on information “demand,” or what information potential attackers might need to carry out an attack on U.S. critical infrastructure or other key locations.¹ In this chapter, we turn to the supply side to assess which types of geospatial information are publicly av...

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Published inMapping the Risks p. 41
Main Authors JOHN C. BAKER, BETH E. LACHMAN, DAVID R. FRELINGER, KEVIN M. O’CONNELL, ALEXANDER C. HOU, MICHAEL S. TSENG, DAVID ORLETSKY, CHARLES YOST
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published RAND Corporation 02.04.2004
Edition1
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Applied geography
Applied sciences
Cartography
Civil engineering
Consumers
Data products
Datasets
Earth sciences
End users
Energy
Engineering
Geodesy
Geography
Geoinformatics
Geospatial information
Government
Human populations
Information relevance
Information resources
Information retrieval
Information science
Information search and retrieval
Infrastructure
Local government
Persons
Physical sciences
Physics
Political science
Population studies
Retrieval effectiveness
Social sciences
User needs
User profiles
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Summary:In the preceding chapter, we focused on information “demand,” or what information potential attackers might need to carry out an attack on U.S. critical infrastructure or other key locations.¹ In this chapter, we turn to the supply side to assess which types of geospatial information are publicly available and significant to fulfilling the information needs of adversaries planning an attack. Our analysis focused on two key questions: (1) What federal geospatial information is publicly available? and (2) How significant is it? For our purposes, we defined “significant” based on whether the information is bothusefulandunique. Our methodology consisted
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