1. Crisis Mapping 2009 - Cleveland OH 1 Integrating Event Detection, Analysis and Response: 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 - http://lunar.jrc.it/critech/ via E Fermi 2749, 21027 ISPRA (VA),Italy Tel: +39 0332 785547 Fax: +39 0332 785154 e-mail: Brian.Doherty@jrc.it

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3. Crisis Mapping 2009 - 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!

4. Crisis Mapping 2009 - Cleveland OH 4 Automatic information extraction from VHR satellite dataImage data processing systemsSpatial data infrastructure and validation protocolDisaster risk assessmentHuman settlement analysisPost-disaster damage assessment and reconstruction monitoringConflict resources monitoring and conflict modeling ISFEREA

5. Crisis Mapping 2009 - Cleveland OH 5 Monitoring and early warning systems for crisis managementOpen source mining, intelligence and analysis systems Challenges: Internet data harvesting, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science (near real-time analysis) OPTIMA

6. Crisis Mapping 2009 - Cleveland OH 6 Geospatial data infrastructureField-based data gathering tools to support crisis needs assessmentCrisis Information Management SystemsEarly Warning SystemsTsunami ModelingGlobal Flood Detection SystemPublic Health Security CriTech

7. Crisis Mapping 2009 - Cleveland OH 7 Field Collection Tool 1 2 3

8. Crisis Mapping 2009 - Cleveland OH 8 Ontology editing

9. Crisis Mapping 2009 - Cleveland OH 9 KML Google Earth Shape Files GIS XML RSS

10. Crisis Mapping 2009 - Cleveland OH 10 CriTech Platform DotNetNuke CMS Open Source Modular

11. Crisis Mapping 2009 - 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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13. Crisis Mapping 2009 - 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’?

14. Crisis Mapping 2009 - 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!

15. Crisis Mapping 2009 - Cleveland OH 15 Requests for early-warning systems becoming widespread GHSAG (Health) CEWS – Instability, conflict Other projects both in progress and in the pipeline

16. Crisis Mapping 2009 - 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

17. Crisis Mapping 2009 - 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

18. Crisis Mapping 2009 - 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

19. Crisis Mapping 2009 - 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

20. Crisis Mapping 2009 - Cleveland OH 20 Current Work Configure Optima data harvesting and analysis directly Integrate seamlessly with analysis, crisis management and response