Examples of Analyses Performed Using GeoWorlds

GeoWorlds has been put to experimental use in both academic and government settings for gathering information and analyzing a wide range of situations.  These include preparing for hypothetical disasters, performing intelligence analyses, researching economic and business questions, and a number of other applications.  Examples are provided below.

GeoTopics is a GeoWorlds application that analyzes daily news articles. GeoTopics is a Web-based application that collects and analyzes news articles from major English language newspapers. GeoTopics identifies the �hot topics� and �hot places� from each day�s news articles. Also, it breaks down the hot topic areas by places to determine the topics most relevant to a place.

Regional Terrorism News Portal is an automatically-generated daily international terrorism analysis portal that has been developed for the Asia-Pacific Area Network (APAN) at U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM).