# Risk Terrain Modeling **Entity class:** Spatial risk-analysis method **Aliases:** RTM **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Risk Terrain Modeling** estimates how features of places and their spatial relationships correlate with events. It focuses on environmental risk factors rather than directly scoring named individuals, though deployments can still concentrate enforcement in particular communities. ## Relationships - **type of:** [[wiki/Predictive Policing|Predictive Policing]]. - **uses:** spatial analysis and [[wiki/GEOINT|GEOINT]]-adjacent methods. - **counterterrorism comparison:** [[wiki/Pattern-of-Life Analysis|Pattern-of-Life Analysis]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]]