Unmanned aerial vehicles (<small>UAVs</small>) are significantly changing the field of remote sensing. Seasoned scholars, enthusiasts, and novices alike are adapting <small>UAVs</small> to better understand our world. In this paper, we provide an overview of the implications of the continued integration of <small>UAVs</small> into civilian remote sensing. Our review suggests that <small>UAV</small> technical capabilities rival that of conventional airborne remote sensing, while the flexibility and agility of <small>UAVs</small> allow these devices to be used to study phenomena not previously possible. While commercially-built <small>UAVs</small> are favored in commercial applications, do-it-yourself forums are allowing scholars to benefit from these devices. But while there is excitement around <small>UAVs</small>, ethical, safety, and privacy concerns continue to linger. Therefore, in urging scholars to embrace <small>UAV</small> technologies, we caution them to take steps to ensure good choices are made so that both humanity and remote sensing can continue to benefit from the presence of these devices.

As the rate of crime decelerates in the developed world, the opposite phenomenon is being observed in the developing world, including Latin America and the Caribbean. Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean has been concentrated in urban settings, but the expertise for studying crime and providing guidance on policing remain heavily rooted in the developed world. A hindrance to studying crime in the developing world is the difficulty in obtaining official data, allowing for generalizations on where crime is concentrated to persist. This paper tackles two challenges facing crime analysis in the developing world: the availability of data and an examination of whether crime is concentrated in urban settings. We utilized newspaper archival data to study the spatial distribution of crime in Guyana, South America, across the landscape, and in relation to rural indigenous villages. Three spatial analysis tools, hotspot analysis, mean center, and standard deviation ellipse were used to examine the changing distribution of crime across 20 years. Based on 3900 reports of violent crime, our analyses suggest that the center of the gravity of crime changed over the years, spilling over to indigenous peoples' landscapes. An examination of murder, where firearms and bladed weapons were the weapons of choice, suggests that these weapons moved beyond the coastal zone. The movement of weapons away from the coast raises concerns for the security of indigenous peoples and their associated wildlife. Our analysis suggests that policing measures should seek to extend towards Amerindian landscapes, and this is perhaps indicative of Latin American states with demographics similar to Guyana's.For the most part, however, criminologists and crime scientists, most of whom work in developed /Westernized nations, have paid little attention to this problem [3] (although see Shenderovich et al. [6]). Natarajan's [3] observations on the contrasting treatment of crime in the developed versus developing world were contained in a publication among a series that used data from El Salvador [7,8], India [9], Colombia [10], Brazil [11,12], among other developing countries [13,14], and gave attention to crime studies and analysis in developing world settings. While Natarajan's [3] argument is relevant and timely, criminology in the developing world has not been entirely neglected. Scholars, including Appiahene-Gyamfi [15][16][17], Araujo [18], Cummings et al. [19], Pujol-Luz et al. [20], Reuter and O'Regan [21], Scabin et al. [22], Souza et al. [23], Spiegel et al. [24], de Melo et al. [25], and Valente [26], have examined various aspects of crime in the developing world. In Amazonia, in particular, the struggle over access to natural resources and the resulting tensions that develop from logging, gold mining, cattle farming, and similar activities tend to dominate the discussion around crime [22]. Beyond simply mapping the cases of deforestation and degradation due to illegal activities, however, there is a growing body of literature aimed at managing ...

A consistent finding in criminology is that crime occurs and is concentrated at micro places within cities. To date, most efforts that revealed crime at micro places were completed for developed world settings. Here we draw on newspaper data to examine whether the law of crime concentration is relevant to the developing world city of Georgetown, Guyana. Our analysis showed that robberies and murders were concentrated on 2.77% and 1.96% of the city’s streets. Group-based trajectory analysis revealed an unstable relationship between street segments and crime occurrence, but two areas of Georgetown emerged as centers for robberies and murders. Despite Georgetown’s low population density relative to other Latin American cities, crime is concentrated to a few streets.