Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 1 From Prevention and Preparedness to Response and Recovery: The GlobeSec Approach Brian Doherty European 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 - via E Fermi 2749, ISPRA (VA),Italy Tel: Fax:

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Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 3 GlobeSec Unit CriTech Crisis Management Portals Optima Open source information Isferea Exploitation of Satellite data Sitafs Statistics for Anti-fraud I am here!

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 4 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

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 5 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

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 6 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

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 7 Field Collection Tool 1 2 3

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 8 Ontology editing

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 9 KML Google Earth Shape Files GIS XML RSS

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 10 CriTech Platform DotNetNuke CMS Open Source Modular

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 11 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 Basically, LOTS of modules!

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Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 13 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’?

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 14 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!

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 15 Requests for early-warning systems becoming widespread GHSAG (Health) CEWS – Instability, conflict Other projects both in progress and in the pipeline

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 16 Normalization Convert the inputs into a unified format (data and metadata) Take into account the different system output characteristics Automatically cluster similar articles and identify (to the possible extent) duplicates Moderation Applying human judgment the reduction of noise, redundancy and eventual false negatives Applying human judgment to ranking of articles Filtering Retrieve results filtered by both categories (from the ontology) and free text keywords Binary filtering (match vs. no match) and/or fuzzy filtering (high relevance vs. low relevance) Display Display the articles of information in a human-friendly manner Relevance, ranking and overall content should be judged graphically in a quick manner

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 17 Processing Phases Normalization Convert the inputs into a unified format (data and metadata) Take into account the different system output characteristics Automatically cluster similar articles and identify (to the possible extent) duplicates Moderation Applying human judgment the reduction of noise, redundancy and eventual false negatives Applying human judgment to ranking of articles Filtering Retrieve results filtered by both categories (from the ontology) and free text keywords Binary filtering (match vs. no match) and/or fuzzy filtering (high relevance vs. low relevance) Display Display the articles of information in a human-friendly manner Relevance, ranking and overall content should be judged graphically in a quick manner

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 18 Title, Url and description Source feed Selected by the moderator Voting and current vote status Paging of feed items Filtering section Turn feeds on or off Sorting section

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 19 Title, Url and description Source feed Selected by the moderator Voting and current vote status Paging of feed items Filtering section Turn feeds on or off Sorting section Feed this information forwards and back

Crisis Mapping Cleveland OH 20 Current Work Configure Optima data harvesting and analysis directly Integrate seamlessly with analysis, crisis management and response