Geospatial

The Real Irish Republican Army, or Real IRA, is a terrorist organization in Northern Ireland conducting an armed campaign to reunite the island of Ireland under an Irish Republic. The Real IRA has conducted some of the most sensational attacks of the conflict in Northern Ireland, including the Omagh bombing in 1998 and a rocket propelled grenade attack on the MI-5 headquarters in England. The Real IRA has also been at the forefront of improvised explosive device technology; utilizing bombs with…

Practical Exercise 2: Information Necessary to Evacuate US Civilians from The Democratic Republic of the Congo through the ?Strategies-to-Tasks? Framework In March 1993, RAND Corporation created a briefing for Colonel Charles Miller, Director of Strategic Planning in the Air Staff?s Directorate of Plans. According to Thaler (1993), Strategies to Task - A Framework for Linking Means and Ends, was a response to then Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General McPeak, and his staff order to develop…

information. Choropleth maps have become extremely popular to represent, classify and understand useful information and patterns. These maps use the geographic information system (GIS) and graphic software to bring data together and to assemble numerous geospatial analyses. Example 1 is a choropleth map that shows the unemployment rates in the United States in 2010. In order to convey a clear message, the producers of such maps manipulate colors to systematically encode the geographic data using…

Weeks et al.’s (2008) state that “literature on rural veterans' health care needs warrants expansion and investment so that policy makers can make informed decisions in an environment of limited resources and competing interests.” In general, it’s understood that studies of access to care found that rural veterans have less access to care and were more vulnerable to travel barriers than their urban counterparts. Weeks et al.’s (2008) “conducted a review of the peer-reviewed literature that…