SUPPORT TO THE EUROPEAN SECURITY AGENDA THE ROLE OF REMOTELY SENSED DATA

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SUPPORT TO THE EUROPEANSECURITY AGENDATHE ROLE
OF REMOTELY SENSED DATA

• A J Cragg Kings College London

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OVERVIEW

• The EUs security policy
• Remote sensing
• Satellite earth observation
• The requirements of stakeholders
• The role of GMOSS

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A DEVELOPING EU SECURITY POLICY

• Cold War WEU a limited role
• 1992 Petersberg Tasks
• 1993 Maastricht Treaty establishes CFSP
• 1998 ST Malo Declaration
• 1999 Development of CFSP/ESDP institutions
• 2003 EU Security Strategy
• 2004 WMD strategy
• 2005 Terrorism Strategy

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SECURITY STRATEGY ISSUES

• Terrorism
• WMD proliferation
• Regional Conflict
• State Failure
• Organised Crime
• Competition for Natural Resources
• Economic and Social Tension

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REMOTELY SENSED DATA

• ELINT non-communications electronic
  transmissions
• COMINT message traffic (voice and electronic)
• FISINT instrumentation emissions
• IMINT imagery (optical, radar, infra-red)

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COLLECTION

• Ground-based aerials
• Maritime platforms (surface and sub-surface)
• Airborne platforms (manned and UAV)
• Satellite systems

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ANALYSIS

• National analytical centres
• EU Military Staff
• EU Satellite Centre
• Joint Situation Centre

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CUSTOMERS

• GAESC
• PSC
• HR/Secretary General
• Joint SitCen
• MC
• EUMS
• Commission

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CAPABILITY REQUIREMENTS

• Broadly-based observation capability
• Flexibility in targeting earth observation
• Information in near real-time
• Precisely focussed observation
• Input into multi-disciplinary integrated
  information picture

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KEY TARGETS

• TERRORISM security of transport systems
  protection of key points and essential services
  consequence management
• WMD PROLIFERATION treaty verification
  monitoring export controls security of
  procurement chains illegal trafficking
  cooperative threat reduction
• REGIONAL PROBLEMS EU Neighbourhood Kashmir
  Korean Peninsula Middle East Great Lakes
• STATE FAILURE Somalia
• ORGANISED CRIME drug trafficking illegal
  immigration maritime piracy black arms market

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GMOSS CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE

• Generic technology
• Treaty monitoring
• Early warning
• Population monitoring
• Infrastructure monitoring
• Border monitoring
• Damage assessment

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GMOSS APPLICATIONS REGIONAL INSTABILITY

• treaty monitoring
• damage assessment
• population monitoring
• infrastructure monitoring
• border monitoring
• ecological change assessment
• monitoring of disputes about natural resources

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GMOSS APPLICATIONS TERRORISM AND WMD

• Identification of training camps
• Movement of personnel
• Movement of weapons
• Monitoring national key points
• Monitoring of nuclear, chemical and biological
  facilities
• Support for counter-proliferation policy
  instruments

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GMOSS APPLICATIONS ORGANISED CRIME DETECTION

• Illegal crops (coca, opium poppy fields)
• Illegal mining, logging etc
• Piracy
• People trafficking
• Black arms market
• Nuclear, chemical and biological

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GMOSS APPLICATIONS - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

• EU/UN declaration on military crisis management
  operations
• 2005 World Summit Declaration on the support to
  be provided by regional organisations to the UN
  in crisis management
• NATO/EU cooperation under Berlin plus
  arrangements

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WG21300 WORK PROGRAMME

• Space-based support for EU security policy
• Country prioritisation for earth observation (EO)
• Potential indicators of emerging crises
• Longer term structural indicators of potential
  crises
• Criteria for assessing the utility of EO in
  crisis monitoring