EO4SECURITY, a pioneering European Space Agency (ESA) project monitoring environmental crimes and illegal activities, became operational in January 2024.
In today’s world marked by a steady increase in environmental crimes, EO4SECURITY offers a key to understanding the impact of criminal activities on our planet and how best to safeguard it. It is now clear that a clean, safe, sustainable environment is integral to the full implementation of a broad spectrum of human rights and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN 2030 Agenda.
EO4SECURITY pools together on a single screen analyses and information concerning environmental crimes obtained from different high-resolution data sources, using daily satellite observations and multi-year analyses relating to specific areas.
The project will rely on the complementarity of data from Earth Observation satellites with so-called Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) data taken from the social media and other channels. All this data will be embedded within the operational workflows of end users for greater ease of use.
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