UWI takes charge
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Wednesday | July 9, 2008
As the University of the West Indies celebrates its 60th anniversary, some of its academic staff will leave the halls of learning and don new hats as guest editors for The Gleaner. They will be in charge of the newspaper's July 14 edition. Don't miss it!
DID YOU KNOW ...
The Mona Geoinformatics Institute (MGI) at the UWI, Mona, is actively involved in using different sophisticated spatial mapping and modelling tools to tackle crime issues for the police and other related agencies.
MGI provides high-end geographic information systems (GIS) services to help the security forces in collecting and analysing data as well as equipping them with training, software and data support.
For its crime studies, MGI employs global positioning satellite (GPS) systems, and satellite imagery, as well as other complex data sets, to identify crime locations, as well as for intelligence and crime mitigation strategies.
MGI's services are available to the public and private sectors, as well as non-governmental agencies. Some of the services which MGI provides include: mapping of crime by parish, police divisional level, community or incident; mapping of crime by year, month, week, day or police shift and hot-spot quantification and modelling.
