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I guss that the events of the last month is the base for this project.
Since everybody seem very affraid of the posibility of bio- or
chemical weapons why not try to do a follow up on that? The first idea on
the subject that I can think of would be a scenario that starts with
someone infecting the local watersupplies for a major city.

Intresting questions would be how fast a disease would spread, how quick
the problem would be found and how fast it would be solved. Major factors
would be the watersystem, incubationperiod for the disease and how fast
the medical health would be able to face the problem.

Persons that might be of intrest are scientists or doctors with knowledge
of diseases, techpeople at the water company, any local
authority that handles emergencies, radiostations and
TV-channels to broadcast the information.

A scenario like this might take about two weeks for a group of students to
handle, it depends a little on how easy it is to get access to keypersons
(like doctors and techs). I think you'll need GIS software that handles
both vector- and rasterdata (vector for the watersupplysystem and raster
for displaying contaminationareas) and the mapdata you need would be maps
over the urban areas and over the watersupplysystem.

If you try the idea, please tell me how it went. Im a bit curious( its a
scenario I'd like to try myself, being an grad student).

Best of luck :-)

Henrik

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Henrik Larsson              icq: 6138117


On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Jarrod Young wrote:

> I'm doing a GIS project for an undergrad GIS course and I need help with
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> for analysis.  My general topic is terrorism, however, the broadness of this
> topic is proving to be a much larger challenge than I had expected.  I only
> have until the end of the semester and I'm doing it alone, so I was thinking
> of possible doing something on the state(TX)or local (Central TX) level.
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> I can't seem to come up with a good idea.  I was thinking of possibly some
> sort of "what-if" scenarios or finding the most dangerous cities, etc.  If
> there is anyone who has
> suggestions PLEASE let me know.  I'd like for it to be very interesting, yet
> not too difficult given my constraints (I know that sounds impossible).  But
> if you can help me formulate a question or idea for analysis I would greatly
> appreciate it. Thank you all.
> Jarrod Young
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