BACKGROUND Given the threat of bioterrorism and the increasing availability of electronic data for surveillance, surveillance systems for the early detection of illnesses and syndromes potentially related to bioterrorism have proliferated. PURPOSE To critically evaluate the potential utility of existing surveillance systems for illnesses and syndromes related to bioterrorism. DATA SOURCES D...

Recent advances in information and communication technologies have made the development and operation of complex disease surveillance systems technically feasible, and many systems have been proposed to interpret diverse data sources for health-related signals. Implementing these systems for daily use and efficiently interpreting their output, however, remains a technical challenge. This thesis...

This paper is review of many existing video surveillance systems. With the growing quantity of security video, it becomes vital that video surveillance system be able to support security personnel in monitoring and tracking activities. The aim of the surveillance applications is to detect, track and classify targets. In this paper is described object modelling, activity analysis and change dete...

To enable effective and efficient command and control in military operations it is necessary to have full awareness of all the actions in the field. In traditional C2 systems human operators play key roles varying from observation in the field up to semantic interpretation of observed data in the Command and Control Centre. Networks are mainly used to transmit data between different components ...

The initial draft of this document was prepared in June 1993 by the Ad hoc Group on Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia Surveillance Systems of the Office International des Epizooties. That draft was then amended in February 1997 by the Group of experts convened at the request of the International Committee to examine issues relating to the surveillance of the disease, with particular reference t...