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Intuitively, the term surveillance produces rather negative feelings. We start remembering the book of George Orwell “1984”, where a society is described that monitors the complete life of its members. However, doing surveillance is often crucial to survive: Even zebras on the savannah are doing surveillance when they sense and respond to the opportunity of a water hole or the threat of a lion.
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Denecke, K. (2012). The Task of Surveillance. In: Event-Driven Surveillance. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28135-8_2
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