tracking engine 113 tracks object of interest 401 within first geographic region 210 in accordance with the illustrative embodiment task 503 is described below and in fig7 and 8 at task 505 tracking engine 113 tracks object of interest 401 primary via surveillance system 114 as the object is moving away from first geographic region 210 in accordance with the illustrative embodiment engine 113 assists in this phase of tracking by providing system 114 with information about object 401 task 505 is described below and in fig9 as those who are skilled in the art will appreciate after reading this specification the tasks depicted in fig5 can be performed on more than one object of interest concurrently furthermore at any given moment tracking engine 113 can be executing different tasks for different objects of interest tracking engine 113 can also repeat the depicted tasks for a given object of interest tracking of object of interest 401 using information received from surveillance system 114 u2014 fig6 depicts a flowchart of the salient tasks performed in tracking object of interest 401 in part by using information received from surveillance system 114 at task 601 tracking engine 113 receives a series of one or more images comprising object of interest 401 at least some of the time object 401 is in motion in relation to the background in the series of images each image can be conveyed within an individual image frame or a video frame or both at some point in time object 401.