Terrorism and Domestic Preparedness

1 Introduction
This provides background and details on a methodology developed at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
(NRL). This methodology has shown applicability to modeling criminal events and will be demonstrated to
the Detroit Police Department (DPD) using their crime events to evaluate the technology. Finally, the technology
will be tested in an operational use case.
2 Background
The NRL has developed an advanced geospatial methodology to characterize a set of events by combining geospatial