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Border Security
Protection of our national borders is a critical task in our national defense plan.
The United States shares 5,525 miles of border with Canada and 1,989 miles of border with Mexico. The U.S. maritime border includes 95,000 miles of shoreline, and a 3.4 million square mile exclusive economic zone. Every year, more than 500 million people cross our borders to enter the United States. Some 330 million of these people are non-citizens.
Securing the borders requires the cooperation of several federal agencies - including those responsible for transportation security, immigration control, border patrol, customs, and maritime security - in support of the overall goal of providing Homeland Security.
The ability to research and share information among and between these agencies is mission-critical.
The Visual Analytics Solution
VisuaLinks® and Digital Information Gateway (DIG®) are ideal tools for searching through a wide range of data sources to extract, analyze and visually expose patterns of activity.
Using the advanced information retrieval capabilities of DIG to extract information from multiple data sources simultaneously and the powerful data mining, visualization and analysis capabilities of VisuaLinks, the Visual Analytics solution allows you to:
 Share Information - give every agent the ability to retrieve information from any and every data source available with a single search.
Visualize Mass Data - expose patterns by reviewing and analyzing thousand of records.
Summarize - quickly produce frequency counts and statistical information.
Track and Correlate - compare data values such as names, IDs and addresses to track and identify individuals.
Identify Routes - use geographic data to pinpoint and plot entrance routes.
Statistical data quoted from the “National Strategy for Homeland Security,” published July, 2002.
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