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In this chapter, we discuss two real-world applications of geospatial abduction problems (GAPs). While both applications deal with finding weapons caches that support improvised explosive devices used by insurgent terror groups, they operate in two different environments. SCARE (Spatio-Cultural Abductive Reasoning Engine) implements point-based geospatial abduction and was used to find IED weapons caches in Baghdad. In contrast, SCARE-S2 is an extension of SCARE to region-based geospatial abduction which has been used, with various modifications, to find high value targets (either large weapons caches or insurgent commanders) in certain provinces of Afghanistan. The accuracy of both systems has been tested on real-world data, and over 18 organizations have requested or used either SCARE or SCARE-S2.
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Shakarian, P., Subrahmanian, V.S. (2011). Two Real-World Geospatial Abduction Applications. In: Geospatial Abduction. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1794-1_5
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