Earth and marine observation technologies and methods are increasingly relevant for monitoring security-related domains, including critical infrastructure and supply chains. Resilient and sustainable societies need trust. Independent observations can provide objective information that supports situational awareness, societal resilience and informed decision-making.
Monitoring critical infrastructure and supply chains can provide decision makers and security practitioners with actionable information.
Forensic investigations of specific and critical events, such as the Nord Stream pipeline incidents demonstrate how independent observations from multiple sensor technologies can help reconstruct events, assess their consequences and provide an objective scientific basis for their interpretation.
Comprehensive and objective Earth observation data can also be an effective tool for indpendent monitoring of ongoing conflicts and other security-relevant events, providing invaluable information about potential violations of international law.
This multidisciplinary session brings together research on the use of Earth and marine observations for security, resource and critical infrastructure resilience. We invitecontributions from all relevant technologies like satellite monitoring from optical or radar systems, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), hydroacoustics, seismology and infrasound.
Contributions may address:
- novel method developments that strengthen resilience for urban areas, resources or critical infrastructure
- forensic studies of critical events
- Independent monitoring of conflicts and security-relevant events, including applications supporting transparency, verification, trust-building and peacekeeping.
- practical intersection with policy makers and Security Practitioners, i.e. how the Earth and Marine observations are disseminated to stakeholders through dedicated information sharing pipelines