{"id":87612,"date":"2017-09-26T16:05:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=87612"},"modified":"2019-10-14T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T21:57:57","slug":"msga-student-aims-counter-terrorist-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/26\/msga-student-aims-counter-terrorist-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"MSGA Student Aims to Counter Terrorist Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can a UMW student help counter terrorism attacks from across the globe using classroom technology? 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Photo by Jarred Cannon.\" style=\"width: 362px; height: 241px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Kelsey Keplinger, who recently defended her capstone project for UMW&#8217;s master&#8217;s in geospatial analysis degree, uses satellite pixels to match fires with terrorist events. Photo by Jarred Cannon. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>One of 32 students in the Master of Science in Geospatial Analysis program, Keplinger uses satellite pixels to match fires in Nigeria with a terrorist events database and track possible attacks by the extreme terrorist group Boko Haram. Tackling a real-world issue with an innovative approach, the project could provide a practical way of responding to terrorism attacks, decreasing response times and increasing available aid.<\/p>\n<p>Well-known for burning villages, Boko Haram was named the second deadliest terrorist group in 2015 by the <a href=\"http:\/\/economicsandpeace.org\/\">Institute for Economics and Peace\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/visionofhumanity.org\/app\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Global-Terrorism-Index-2016.pdf\">2016 Global Terrorism Index<\/a>, killing 5,478 people that year with three quarters of the deaths in Nigeria. Unfortunately, events like these are usually reported much later than they occur or underreported when they happen in isolated areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the only means of reporting are several days later when someone makes it to a refugee camp, that\u2019s not exactly helpful,\u201d said Keplinger, a Harrisburg, Virginia, native and 2016 graduate of James Madison University. \u201cWe need better reporting to know where fires are happening in real time so we can direct aid to the areas in need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where Keplinger\u2019s research comes in. Since satellite fire detections are available daily, her project tests whether these reports could be a reliable way of identifying terrorist attacks and triggering a response on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Working closely with her advisor, Assistant Professor of Geography Marco Millones, Keplinger used geospatial methods and software to process a time-series of satellite imagery and overlay it with data from the Global Terrorism Database. However, despite finding 281 terrorist events in the study period that involved Boko Haram, there was minimal correlation with the fire maps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKatie\u2019s project is challenging because fires occur in Nigeria due to many factors other than terrorist attacks and because, by technical design or measurement error, satellites may miss\u00a0fires that are too small or not hot enough,\u201d said Millones. \u201cHer project will provide a methodological guide on how to tackle the issues involved in these creative yet challenging questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Confronting the project\u2019s challenges head-on, Keplinger took the research one step further, dividing Nigeria into districts for more detailed analytics. The extra effort paid off, resulting in increased reported terrorism activity in the areas with abnormally high fire detection \u2013 something she revealed as she defended her thesis on Friday, Sept. 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf nothing else, we\u2019ve learned that more research on this topic is warranted,\u201d she said. \u201cThis could be a practical way of identifying terrorist fires in remote regions and providing aid in real-time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a UMW student help counter terrorism attacks from across the globe using classroom technology? 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