Mapping and monitoring suburban crimes using high resolution data

5. Conclusion
It is recommended and highly suggested to use high-resolution data to map, monitor and check, specially the suburban crimes in major cities. Also, the cost involved in procuring and installing such GIS data will be less when compared with the amount of distress people are put to after being attacked and killed by the criminals. It is high time now that such study be carried out in Indian cities, particularly the major metros which have been transforming as the base for criminals.

Acknowledgements
Authors wish to express their thanks to Shri. T.R. Srinivasan, President and Shri. P. Siva Kumar, Senior Manager, WTI Advanced Technology Ltd. for their support to carry out this work.

Authors grateful to Dr. Krishna Prasad, Vice President, WTI Advanced Technology Ltd. for his critical suggestion during this work.

Thanks to Shri. S. Vivek, Shri. S. Basker, Shri. S. Saravanan, Shri. G. Sri Ramajayam, Shri. M. Sudhakar for their technical support.

The following parameters have been used to understand and monitor the individual houses across the given suburban area:

Table 1 shows the social parameters used to identify the vulnerable areas in suburban parts of the city (applicable to Indian cities)

S.No	No. of Persons	Occupation	House Type	Lock Time	Lock Duration	Security	Aged Person	Night activity
1	2	Business	Indepe.	Day	0800	-	-	-
2	4	Office	Indepe		-	-	1	-
3	7	Business	Indepe.	Day	0700	-	2	Manufac.

Figure 3 showing the independent houses with lock duration more than 4 hours (vulnerable under suburbs of Chennai)

Figure 4 shows the houses vulnerable to varieties of crimes which are independent and having aged people who stay alone in day time as highlighted in yellow (light color) (Typical of suburban crime in Chennai)

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