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From Prevention and Preparedness to Response and Recovery: The GlobeSec Approach

Brian DohertyEuropean Commission - Joint Research Centre

Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC)Global Security and Crisis Management (GlobeSEC) Unit

Crisis Monitoring and Response Technologies (CRITECH) Action - http://lunar.jrc.it/critech/via E Fermi 2749, 21027 ISPRA (VA),Italy

Tel: +39 0332 785547 Fax: +39 0332 785154e-mail: Brian.Doherty@jrc.it

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GlobeSec Unit

CriTechCrisis Management

Portals

OptimaOpen source information

Isferea

Exploitation of

Satellite data

Sitafs

Statistics for

Anti-fraud

I am here!

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Global Security and Crisis Management

From Prevention and Preparedness to Response and Recovery

Thematic Coverage

Humanitarian Natural Disasters: earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods

Socio-political crises including conflict Public health crises Financial: Fraud, Money-laundering, aid

transparency Law Enforcement

Geographic Coverage

Global

Our Scope and Coverage

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Automatic open Source text information mining and analysis

Geo-spatial information extraction and analysis

Statistical data mining and analysis

Numerical modelling – infectious disease and tsunami

GIS, IT

Turning R+D into successful operational applications of relevance to EU policy

Our Expertise and Research

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• Risk Assessment methods

• Situation Awareness in hot spots by Remote Sensing

• Early Warning and Alerting systems

• Media Monitoring systems

• Open source intelligence systems

• Collaborative Crisis Management Systems and Tools

• Post-crisis Structural Damage assessments and techniques focusing on human settlements

What We Do

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Field Collection Tool

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Ontology editing

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KML Google Earth

Shape Files GIS

XML RSS

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CriTech Platform • DotNetNuke CMS• Open Source• Modular

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• Text Module• Document Management system• Request for Information• RSS viewer• Contacts• Crisis Area Creation• Calendar• Geographical tools• Questionnaire• Search• Newsletters• SMS facilities• Wiki modules• Forum

Main Portal modules

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Creating a new threat/crisis/incident:

• Identify the modules required• How do they need to interact?• Which of them should provide information to

the map?• How should the map represent the data?• Will there be sub-entities and how will they

pass data ‘upwards’?

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Encapsulate in a template

• Platform generates a new environment based on a template

• User supplies only the minimum information• Data moves within the new environment and

upwards in any hierarchical structure without further setup required

• Maps, RSS readers etc• Collaboration can begin immediately!

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Requests for early-warning systems becoming widespread• GHSAG (Health)• CEWS – Instability, conflict• Other projects both in progress and in

the pipeline

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NormalizationConvert the inputs into a unified format (data and metadata)Take into account the different system output characteristicsAutomatically cluster similar articles and identify (to the possible extent) duplicates

ModerationApplying human judgment the reduction of noise, redundancy and eventual false

negativesApplying human judgment to ranking of articles

FilteringRetrieve results filtered by both categories (from the ontology) and free text

keywordsBinary filtering (match vs. no match) and/or fuzzy filtering (high relevance vs. low

relevance)Display

Display the articles of information in a human-friendly mannerRelevance, ranking and overall content should be judged graphically in a quick

manner

Normalize Moderate Filter Display

InitialFeeds

FinalFeeds

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Processing Phases

NormalizationConvert the inputs into a unified format (data and metadata)Take into account the different system output characteristicsAutomatically cluster similar articles and identify (to the possible extent) duplicates

ModerationApplying human judgment the reduction of noise, redundancy and eventual false

negativesApplying human judgment to ranking of articles

FilteringRetrieve results filtered by both categories (from the ontology) and free text

keywordsBinary filtering (match vs. no match) and/or fuzzy filtering (high relevance vs. low

relevance)Display

Display the articles of information in a human-friendly mannerRelevance, ranking and overall content should be judged graphically in a quick

manner

Normalize Moderate Filter Display

InitialFeeds

FinalFeeds

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Source feed

Selected by the moderator

Voting and current vote status

Paging of feed items

Filtering section

Turn feeds on or off

Sorting section

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Source feed

Selected by the moderator

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Paging of feed items

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Current Work• Configure Optima data harvesting and

analysis directly• Integrate seamlessly with analysis, crisis

management and response