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This chapter provides an intuitive, easy to read explanation of what geospatial abduction is. It uses a set of examples to explain what geospatial abduction is, and how it can be used to solve real-world problems in many different domains. Our examples show how geospatial abduction can be used to (i) identify the locations of weapons caches supporting improvised explosive device attacks by terrorists and armed insurgents from information about the locations of the attacks, (ii) identify the possible locations of tigers from information about locations of their kills, (iii) identify habitats that support host animals that carry certain viruses from information about where diseases caused by those viruses occurred, and (iv) identify the location(s) of a burglar from information about where burglaries he carried out occurred. These four examples are used continuously throughout the book to illustrate the mathematical foundations and definitions that are presented in later chapters.
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Shakarian, P., Subrahmanian, V.S. (2011). Introduction. In: Geospatial Abduction. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1794-1_1
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