Introducing the BDE societal challenges: Secure Societies [via BDE-Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens Community Group]

The Horizon 2020 programme reflects the policy priorities of the Europe 2020
strategy and addresses major concerns shared by citizens in Europe and
elsewhere. The programme identified seven challenges.

The Societal Challenge “Secure Societies” is one of the challenges and its
primary aims are:

 to enhance the resilience of our society against natural and man-made
disasters, ranging from the development of new crisis management tools to
communication interoperability, and to develop novel solutions for the
protection of critical infrastructure;
 to fight crime and terrorism ranging from new forensic tools to protection
against explosives;
 to improve border security, ranging from improved maritime border protection to
supply chain security and to support the Union's external security policies
including through conflict prevention and peace building;
 to provide enhanced cyber-security, ranging from secure information sharing to
new assurance models.

This Challenge should bring together all security stakeholders: industry -
including SMEs, research organisations, universities, as well as public
authorities, non-governmental organisations and public and private organisations
in the security domain. The active involvement of end-users is of high
importance. The Secure Societies Challenge will contribute to the implementation
of the policy goals of the Europe 2020 strategy, the Security Industrial
Policy, the Internal Security Strategy and the Cyber Security Strategy.

In the frame of the H2020 BigDataEurope project, the EU SatCen is the partner
responsible for the “Secure Societies” societal challenge. The mission of
the EU SatCen is to support the decision making and actions of the EU in the
field of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) by providing products and
services resulting from the exploitation of relevant space assets and collateral
data. Thus the EU SatCen can represent in the framework of the BigDataEurope
project, and in line with the Secure Societies H2020 Societal Challenge, the
Stakeholders involved in the decision-making process of the EU in the CFSP
field.

The data used for space and security applications complied with the definition
of Big Data in terms of:

 Volume - Data received each day from satellites are on the order of terabytes
(the sole Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 will deliver 2.6 Tb of images per day);
 Variety - Data are coming from different sensors in orbit on several
governmental and commercial satellites;
 Velocity - Data have to be delivered and processed in a short time frame to
allow providing users requiring fast responses with 24/7 information;
 Veracity - Decision making and operations require reliable sources;
 Value - Information to be provided has to be useful and clear.

Moreover datasets to be used for security applications can be composed not only
by satellite data but also by aerial imagery (e.g. from Remotely Piloted
Vehicles), data from intelligence sources (e.g. GEOINT, HUMINT and OSINT),
in-situ data and data from other sources (e.g. media, public data, web-based
communities, user-generated content, Automatic Identification Systems –AIS-
data, phone communications, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs and publicly
available sources).

The massive amount of data related to specific positions on the Earth’s
surface has been defined as Spatial Big Data; new challenges in hardware and
software developments, data analysis, data management, data exploitation and
information extraction have therefore to be faced.

SatCen is currently building a “secure societies” community, gathering its
user requirements in order to develop a technical Big Data platform implementing
relevant demonstration applications/pilots coordinated with the University of
Athens, the secure societies technical partner. The security community has been
building through several events, as yearly workshops (the first workshop was
held in Brussels on 30th of September 2015), hang-out webinars and discussions
in the frame of SatCen internal events and participations to conferences,
workshops and other H2020 projects.  The so far collected users’ requirements
led to the development of the first pilot, where particular importance has been
given to the integration and fusion of data from remote and social sensing in
order to add value to the current data exploitation practices.

To engage with the BigDataEurope project:

 Subscribe to the BigDataEurope Newsletter;
 Participate to other planned BigDataEurope events as stakeholders workshops,
webinars and hang-outs;
 Follow us on the Social Media (Twitter, LinkedIn);
 Participate in one of the BigDataEurope Pilots (please contact us directly for
details).



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