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Integrating Event Detection, Analysis and Response:

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

IsfereaExploitation of Satellite data

SitafsStatistics for

Anti-fraud

I am here!

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Automatic information extraction from VHR satellite

data

Image data processing systems

Spatial data infrastructure and validation protocol

Disaster risk assessment

Human settlement analysis

Post-disaster damage assessment and

reconstruction monitoringConflict resources

monitoring and conflict modeling

ISFEREA

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Monitoring and early warning systems for crisis

management

Open source mining, intelligence and analysis

systems

Challenges: Internet data harvesting, Computational

Linguistics, Computer Science (near real-time

analysis)

OPTIMA

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Geospatial data infrastructure

Field-based data gathering tools to support crisis needs

assessment

Crisis Information Management Systems

Early Warning Systems

Tsunami Modeling

Global Flood Detection System

Public Health Security

CriTech

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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

Basic

ally,

LOTS

of m

odul

es!

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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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18Title, Url and descriptionSource 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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19Title, Url and descriptionSource 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 i

nformatio

n forw

ards and back

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Current Work• Configure Optima data harvesting and

analysis directly• Integrate seamlessly with analysis, crisis

management and response