Published Article/Report
- Patil, G. P., J. A. Bishop, W. L. Myers, C. Tallie, R. Varney, and D. H. Wardrop. 2004. Detection and delineation of critical areas using echelons and spatial scan statistics with synoptic cellular data. Invited paper to appear in Environmental and Ecological Statistics: Special Issue on Multiscale Advanced Raster Map Analysis 11,139-164.
Geographical surveillance for hotspot detection and delineation has become an important area of investigation both in geospatial ecosystem health andin geospatial public health. In order to ®nd critical areas basedon synoptic cellular data, geospatial ecosystem health investigations apply recently discovered echelon tools. In order to ®nd elevated rate areas based on synoptic cellular data, geospatial public health investigations apply recently discovered spatial scan statistic tools. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a joint role for these together in the spirit of a cross-disciplinary cross-fertilization to accomplish more effective and ef®cient geographical surveillance for hotspot detection and delineation, and early warning system.