Resilience The 2nd International Workshop on Modelling of Physical Economic and Social Systems for Resilience Assessment

JRC Directorate E – Space, Security and Migration has organized the 2nd international workshop on Modelling of Physical, Economic and Social Systems for Resilience Assessment in Ispra that will consist in more than ten sessions for three days of full immersion into this topic. Interest in resilience has been rising rapidly during the last twenty years, both among policy makers and academia, as a response to increasing concern about the potential effect of shocks to individuals, civil infrastructure, regions, countries and social, economic and political institutions. The objective of the workshop is to bring together the scientific community and policy makers towards developing better policies and practices incorporating the element of resilience in various fields. This workshop has been organized in close collaboration with NIST and Colorado State University who organized in Washington on 19-21 October 2016 the 1st International workshop on the same subject. This is a follow-up of several similar events in this field. The JRC already organized a higher level event, the JRC-EPSC annual conference "Building a Resilient Europe in a Globalised World" in September 2015. These workshops aimed at identifying more strategic needs and provide an outlook of future actions. In addition, the JRC organized the first plenary session during the IDRC Davos 2016 conference entitled “Implementing resilience in a world of interconnectedness and emerging challenges” in which the JRC, NIST, Rotterdam city, the Dutch authorities and researchers from Japan presented their views and best practices on resilience implementation. Such an event constitutes an excellent opportunity for positioning JRC among the top institutions in resilience modelling with the capability to influence and steer the work of this community in close collaboration with recognized institutions around the globe.JRC.E.2-Technology Innovation in Securit

The SUMO ship detection software for satellite radar images - Short installation and user guide

This is a brief manual for the SUMO software. SUMO is a software package for semi- or fully-automatic ship detection in satellite SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images, for experimental use. It can work on images from most of the recent and contemporary satellite SARs, across a range of radar frequencies and resolutions. It has been developed at European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) over the last 15 years, and has been extensively tested, demonstrated and validated. Ship detection from satellite images is used for maritime spatial planning, fisheries control, pollution control, maritime border control, counter-piracy, and other applications in the field of maritime safety, security and sustainability. The SUMO algorithm, that is behind the software, has recently been described in detail in a journal publication. This document describes the purpose of SUMO, how to compile the run-time code from the Java source code, how to start and run SUMO in interactive mode as well as in batch mode, and SUMO’s input and output data. It also mentions known problems and the necessary maintenance. A list of questions and answers is attached in annex for quick reference. This manual is published together with the release of the SUMO software as open source under the FreeBSD two-clause license. The software was developed for use at JRC for R&D purposes and is released “as is”.JRC.E.7-Knowledge for Security and Migratio

Earth Observation in Support of Operational Maritime Surveillance

Abstract not availableJRC.G-Institute for the Protection and the Security of the Citizen (Ispra

Establishment of the European Reference Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection (ERNCIP)

The lack of EU-wide conformity assessment for security-related equipment, systems, and services is a barrier to the development of security-related products. The ERNCIP project provides a framework for CIP-related experimental facilities and laboratories to share knowledge and expertise, and to harmonize test protocols throughout Europe, aiming at improved protection of critical infrastructure in the EU against all types of threats and hazards. Following a preliminary phase, the project was endorsed by the Member States and was launched in 2011. This paper presents the preliminary results from ERNCIP from its first year, describing in detail the foundation of the first Thematic Areas and the development of the Inventory.JRC.G.6-Security technology assessmen

Second International workshop on Modelling of Physical, Economic and Social Systems for Resilience Assessment

The workshop managed to gather more than 130 experts from around the world on the topic of resilience modelling. This workshop was based on the successful output of the 1st workshop organised by NIST. This 2nd workshop was organised in collaboration with NIST and Colorado State University.JRC.E.2-Technology Innovation in Securit

Findings of the DECLIMS Project - Detection and Classification of Marine Traffic from Space

The DECLIMS FP5 concerted action brings together 24 parties active in space-based ship detection; from industry, academia and organizations; civilian and defence backgrounds. The project is characterised by exchange of experiences, and comparing performances of algorithms and systems by running benchmark tests. This presentation intends to report on the main findings (so far) of the project which has been running for over two years. These findings comprise the following. Main users of space-based ship detection are fisheries control and defence authorities; civilian security use seems upcoming. The combination of satellite SAR derived vessel positions with those from AIS (vessel transponder) is gaining much attention recently due to the broad uptake of the latter. Automatic ship detection software implemented for fast processing has quite good properties in terms of detection and false alarm rates, but still not as good as a human operator who is better at dealing with complex clutter situations. In combination with a good communication infrastructure, detected ship positions can be at the users within 30 minutes after acquisition. Many systems that call themselves operational have only recently installed the capacity for giving size estimates with their detections. Still, in many cases this estimate is rendered worthless on account of the azimuth smearing that the target, moving on the swells, is subject to. No operational system seems to be able to venture a guess as to the vessel type. The optimum way to deal with ENVISAT ASAR AP mode images is still under debate, and has not reached most operational systems yet. ENVISAT ASAR WSM receives some interest to detect larger (cargo) shipping, but its resolution makes it of very limited use for detection of (smaller) fishing vessels. With regard to future systems, maritime surveillance applications in most cases will favour swath width over polarimetric information. Full polarimetry is likely to be at best confined to coastal or port studies. The limited classification potential means that spaceborne SAR should primarily be used as a cueing sensor, implying the need for very fast turnaround and tasking capability.JRC.G.3-Agricultur

Progress and Achievements of the European Reference Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection

This is a short invited article describing ERNCIP and how it was set-up, recent output from the Thematic Groups, and plans for the future.JRC.G.5-Security technology assessmen

European Reference Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection

The European Commission has taken the initiative to organize a network consisting of research and technology organizations within the European Union (EU) with capabilities in critical infrastructure protection. Preparatory studies and roadmapping were carried out in 2009-2010 by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre on behalf of the Directorate-General for Home Affairs. The characteristics were planned on the basis of the priorities of the EU member state governments and critical infrastructure stakeholders, and in coherence with EU critical infrastructure protection policy in general. The network of laboratories is called the European Reference Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection (ERNCIP). It is intended to be a long-term, sustainable grouping with a light management structure based on existing European laboratories and facilities. Its main objectives are to agree on common test methodologies and standards, recommend security certification schemes, develop methods for laboratory accreditation, promote the exchange of good and best practices for critical infrastructure protection, and help the development of a single market in the EU for critical infrastructure protection related products and services. A searchable inventory of laboratories and facilities has been compiled and has been publicly released, with an invitation to organizations to upload their descriptions. Thematic groups have been established to focus on priority areas; eight thematic groups are currently operational and two others are in the process of being established.JRC.G.6-Security technology assessmen

Trust Building and the European Reference Nnetwork for Critical Infrastructure Protection community

This paper builds on the case study of the ERNCIP (European Research Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection) project, in which a network of experts are asked to help build and promote the first community for European Critical Infrastructure Protection dedicated to CIP research. It examines the concept of trust and its many dimensions, how they can be monitored, how they relate to networks of people and the technologies-mechanisms that they use to cooperate. The paper starts by providing an overview of ERNCIP and then introduces trust, confidence and trust development as community building concepts. The authors then discuss their experience in nurturing, seeding and promoting trust while developing the ERNCIP community by leveraging a participatory and voluntary approach. The paper closes with a review of trust by design, commitment and governance and a look at the future of ERNCIP.JRC.G.5-Security technology assessmen