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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">cndcgs</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Challenges to national defence in contemporary geopolitical situation</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2538-8959</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2669-2023</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>LKA</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">150_LICKOVA</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47459/cndcgs.2026.150</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Design of a Composite Geospatial Model for Assessing Territorial Stability</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>LICKOVA</surname>
            <given-names>Marketa</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:marketa.lickova@unob.cz">marketa.lickova@unob.cz</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_cndcgs_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_cndcgs_aff_000">Centre for Security and Military Strategic Studies, University of Defence, Czech Republic</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>HUBACEK</surname>
            <given-names>Martin</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_cndcgs_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_cndcgs_aff_001">Faculty of Military Technology, University of Defence, Czech Republic</aff>
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      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>2026</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>1288</fpage>
      <lpage>1293</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>14</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <permissions>
        <license license-type="open-access">
          <license-p>Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY)</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>Assessment of the operational environment for military operations planning increasingly requires, alongside physical terrain evaluation, the systematic integration of socio-economic, institutional, and security-related data into coherent analytical frameworks. Traditional geopolitical and regional analyses often treat these dimensions separately, limiting the capacity to evaluate territorial stability as a multidimensional and spatially differentiated phenomenon. This contribution introduces the Socio-Economic Area Stability (SEAS) model, conceptualized as a geospatial composite index designed to quantify territorial stability through the structured synthesis of heterogeneous spatial indicators. The model builds upon principles of composite indicator construction and geospatial data modelling grounded in ISO 191XX standards, transforming conceptual socio-geographical structures into a spatially explicit analytical framework. Investigation results confirm that the proposed index architecture is internally coherent, theoretically grounded, and structurally compatible with multi-source spatial datasets.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>composite index</kwd>
        <kwd>territorial stability</kwd>
        <kwd>geospatial modelling</kwd>
        <kwd>socio-economic analysis</kwd>
        <kwd>spatial aggregation</kwd>
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