Homeland Security Technology Challenges: From Sensing and Encrypting to Mining and Modeling

Over the past decade, homeland security (HS) has taken on paramount importance in our society. At the technical level, homeland security involves sensor networks and the preprocessing of data, the handling of sensitive data with secure and safe procedures, and the design, modeling and simulation of complex HS systems. Written and edited by leading experts in the field, this timely resource presents a thorough overview of these technical facets of Homeland Security (HS). Professionals learn how to store, encrypt and mine sensitive data. Further, the book shows how data is transmitted and received along wired or wireless networks, operating on electromagnetic channels. This unique, cutting-edge resource covers the field's most critical topics, from embedded wireless sensor networks, tapping the vehicle grid for homeland security, and visual detection of humans...to single-database private information retrieval, sensing through walls, and stopping cars and mobiles.