SC7 Workshop 3: Space-based applications and Big Data

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Space-based applications and Big Data
Big Data in Secure Societies – 3rd Workshop, October 3rd 2017
Rita Rinaldo
Rita.rinaldo@esa.int
Directorate of Telecommunication and Integrated Applications

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ESA Business Applications: thematic areas
Big Data in Secure Societies

ESA Business Applications:
Big Data for Secure Societies
1.Big data applications to boost preparedness and
response to migration
2.High Altitude Platforms (HAPS) applications
3.Big Data for monitoring and protection of critical
infrastructure
4.Big Data for Safety of Transport (e.g. aeronautical,
maritime)

Big Data for Migration: Background
 Europe is being confronted with the most significant influxes of
migrants and refugees in its history.
 One burning issue is the lack of timely information on migration
trends, flows and rates.
 Big data applications have been recognized as a potentially powerful
tool to provide direct and indirect indicators of migration trends.
 ESA’s IAP is preparing an invitation to tender of the feasibility study
“Big data applications to boost preparedness and response to
migration".
Europe is being confronted with the most significant influxes of
migrants and refugees in its history.
One burning issue is the lack of timely information on migration
trends, flows and rates.
In September 2016, ESA’s IAP has the “Big data
applications to boost preparedness and response to
migration“ invitation to tender.

Feasibility study overview
Objectives:
 Assess if and how space technology combined with big data can
support the identification of migration flows
(focus on mitigation, preparedness and response)
 Assess the viability of the proposed services
 Propose a roadmap for service(s) implementation
and demonstration.
Users/stakeholders involved in the study through ESA
Four contracts have been awarded, respectively led by:

Why Big data? Which data? Why space tech?
Why Big Data?
 Big data applications have been recognized as a potentially powerful
tool to provide direct and indirect indicators of migration trends and
human movements.
 Blumenstock 2012 to track migration patterns in Rwanda from
call detail records
 Studies on use of geo-located social media (Twitter) data to infer
migration trends.
 …
Which Data?
 Geolocated social media (e.g.: Facebook, twitter )
 Geolocation provided by smartphone’s apps
 IP addresses of website logins and sent e-mails
 Call detail records
 ….
Why space tech?
 Direct and indirect indicators of migratory flows (e.g.: information on socio-economic factors ,
unusual human activities, etc.) derived from EO data to provide a medium term human
migration forecast (relevant to the mitigation phase)
 RPAS are typically part of humanitarian relief activities may provide valuable info
 GNSS

Migration Radar 2.0
7
The proposed services
Online platform where EO imagery is combined
with Social Media algorithms to obtain early
warning indicators about migration flows like
routings and migration-initiators.
The contribution of big data and space assets
• Automated Time-series analysis over a defined geographic location;
• Linking earth observation data with other GIS administrative data, various biophysical, socio-economic
indices;
• Deep learning methods on (social) media data to deepen the understanding of what moves people.
Users directly involved by the consortium
Ministry of Security and Justice Netherlands (potential launch customer)
Status
First version demonstrator has been built. Invitation from projected launch customer to create a plan to come to
a successful co-development project towards a demonstration.
Prime contractor: CGI Nederland B.V. | Sub contractor: Statistics Netherlands (Center for Big Data Statistics)

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Big Data Applications to Preparedness and Response to Migration
Feasibility Study
Service 1: Migration Flows Mapping
Elaboration of a comprehensive mapping of historical migratory flows, elaborated through the
integration of data coming from multiple sources such as the Internet, mobile phones, satellites imagery
Service 2: Trends & Forecasts Elaboration
Provision of migration events forecasts, elaborated through tailored models fed with historical data
correlated with information stemming from: big data analyses, Internet sources and satellite imagery
Service 3: Advanced Surveillance & Rescue
RPAS-based surveillance & rescue service allowing an up-to-date, reliable and close-to-real-time
situational picture, which contributes to increased situational awareness
Consortium
Stakeholders Involved
Current Status
Feasibility Study:
System and Service Definition

ESA IAP Feasibility Study
Big data applications to boost preparedness and response to migration
Geospatial layers integrated with collateral big data supporting the migrations flow monitoring
Provide services for supporting
migration mitigation and early
warning, illegal migration
prosecution, from land to sea:
1. Departure points
2. Through traces
3. External Border monitoring
4. Coast to the open sea
5. EU Borders
6. Conflicts Analysis
7. Internal Movements
Explore big data source including:
• Mobile phone data
• Social Media data
• Traditional source of data
• Satellite data (e.g.: HR and VHR SAR, EO,
SAT-AIS, microsatellites);
• Intelligence data (e.g. OSINT and HUMINT)
Status: End User requirements, SoTA and
preliminary sustainability have been finalized, the
project team is now fine tuning the Service portfolio
and the Platform Service concept
With support of the Italian Ministry
of Interior, Guardia di Finanza-
Frontex ICC and ISTAT

INFORMACIÓN NO CLASIFICADA Código Doc.
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GMVINBIGDATAFOR
MIGRATION GMV service porfolio is built on company’s extensive experience in Remote Sensing
applications and include in-house data analytics services and massive data processing
capabilities from third-party companies in the consortium
IDP and Refugee Camps Monitoring
Migration Routes Identification and
Monitoring
Social Media Monitoring Service
Migration Advice Portal
EO Imagery Mobile CDR
-Social Sensing
-Geolocation
Web content
Actionable Information
Insights from Social Media
Information Outreach

High Altitude Platform Stations (also called
High Altitude Pseudo Satellites)
Significant uptake of HAPS is expected in the medium/long term (Market volume
for HAPS is estimated to grow at 11% CAGR attaining over USD 7 billion by 2024
1)
HAPS could offer advantages and complementary applications over satellites,
terrestrial infrastructures and Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), at
relatively low cost.
The use of HAPS is considered for a variety of applications, such as maritime and
land surveillance, environmental monitoring, land border control applications,
telecommunications, emergency/public safety communications, intelligent
transportation systems, etc
A number of HAPS development projects have recently reached more advanced
development stages in particular in Europe, which indicates that first operational
services could be expected by 2018 - 2023.
HAPS are aircraft positioned above 20 km altitude, in the stratosphere, for very-
long-duration flights counted in months and even years. These unmanned aircraft
may be airplanes, airships or balloons.
1 https://www.gminsights.com/industry-analysis/high-altitude-platform-hap-market

HAPS as future contributors to Big Data
o Enabling applications related to monitoring and surveillance for
maritime, security, environment and emergency response domains
o Enabling Machine-to-Machine communication applications for
connected homes, connected cars, smart office, connected cities,
factories of the future, asset tracking, smart grids.
Main benefits wrt. satellites and terrestrial infrastructure
• HAPS in comparison to terrestrial networks offer larger coverage area, less
interference caused by obstacles and shorter time to deployment.
• A single HAPS platform can replace a large number of terrestrial towers, with
savings in cost, site acquisition time, and environmental impact.
• HAPS offer improved propagation connectivity conditions with respect to
satellites, lower latency, as well as better resolution of images.
• HAPS have the ability to remain continuously over an area for very long
periods (persistence), and can be returned for maintenance or payload
reconfiguration.

SERVICES ENABLED BY HAPS COMPLEMENTED BY
SATELLITES Feasibility Study: Upcoming ITT
https://business.esa.int/funding/intended-tender/services-enabled-high-altitude-
pseudo-satellites-haps-complemented-satellites
100% funding, €200k
Duration: 9 months
ITT issue: Q4 2017
Several parallel contracts possible
In collaboration with :
Application domains (non exhaustive):
• EO applications (maritime and land border surveillance,
environment monitoring Humanitarian operations)
• Telecommunications applications (Emergency communications,
Broadband Access, Mobile internet- 5G type applications, M2M)
• Navigation applications (GNSS Augmentation, Navigation support)
Objectives: define and assess technically and economically
potentially sustainable services relying on HAPS complemented by
satellites

Big Data for Critical Infrastructures
…
CI are defined as asset (or system) which, if disrupted or destroyed, seriously
impact the health safety, security or economic well-being of citizens and even the
effective functioning of governments

Critical Infrastructures & Big Data
 Rapid exchange of digital information, access to large volumes of data, massive
computing power and access to community tools facilitate the process of turning
data into knowledge, enabling new applications and services that create value for
end users.
 Example of such services relevant for the CI are:
 Real-time monitoring of the asset and its main sub-systems;
 Early warning of problem and associated damage diagnosis;
 Protection of the information assets (data and systems) from unauthorized
access
 Support the land use planning
 The economic and operational benefits are evident in terms of :
 Improvement of safety /security and reduction of emergency situations
 reduction of service disruption;
 optimization of site inspections;
 less expenses for damage recovery;
 less unauthorized access;
 reduction of distress on the surrounding environment.

Role of Space
• Satellite Earth Observation data are valuable for providing med/high
resolution images to enhance situational awareness and enabling change
detection. SatEO data enables wide coverage which is a winning feature
for monitoring of large asset.
• Satellite Navigation provides accurate Position, Navigation and Timing
(PNT). SatNav enables tracking and tracing services (for knowing people
and assets location), and geo-tagging services. SatNav is also required
for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) operations.
• Satellite Communications provide a means to communicate with the
coordinating centre to and from remote locations where there is no
terrestrial network. In case of network failures or cyber-attacks targeting
terrestrial communication, SatCom is an effective means to increase
communication network robustness and communication resilience.

Gridwatch
(https://business.esa.int/projects/gridwatch)
Gridwatch service addresses the needs of the transmission and distribution system
operators that are in charge of delivering the electrical energy along their
overhead lines.
Distribution tower
collapsed because of the
wind
Tower failure due to ice
load on the conductors

Structural Bridge Monitoring: GeoSHM
https://business.esa.int/projects/geoshm-demo-project
GeoSHM is a Structural Health Monitoring service integrating Remote Sensing (EO) and GPS-
based sensors (GNSS) monitoring the structural health of long suspension bridges.

GEOSHM @ the Forth Road Bridge, EdinburghGEOSHM in CHINA

Upcoming Invitation To Tender:
Space-Based services to support resilient and sustainable
Critical Infrastructure (CI)
Focus: Enhancing the
information safety of the
critical infrastructure (protection
from unauthorized access,
unauthorized modification or the
denial of access)
Focus: Enhancing the monitoring of
infrastructure and assessing their
operational status for providing early
warning of potential crises
Focus: enhancing energy networks
resiliency to malicious cyber attacks,
to geophysical (i.e.earthquakes) and
to climate-related disasters (i.e.floods,
droughts, landslides)
And more stakeholders/users from the
private sector: factory owners and operators,
shipping company operators, fleet owners,
electricity operators..
The ITT is planned to be released in Q12018
User needs and operational scenario are still to be finalized, you are welcome to
become part of it, come forward and contact us.
Focus is on increasing infrastructure security as well as making infrastructure more
integrated and interconnected with the surrounding landscape and population.

SPACE BASED SERVICES FOR SMART AIRPORTS
1 https://www.gminsights.com/industry-analysis/high-altitude-platform-hap-market
SMART airports : ensemble of solutions,
devices and services that optimize and
automate the usage of airways and
airspace infrastructures, checkpoints,
passengers-luggage-cargo control
system, info points and internal
communications of the airports
Smart airports will be :
a) distributed – secure entry gates located within cities offering choice for
baggage/drop collection;
b) environmentally friendly ;
c) interactive, in the sense that optimized airport management will exploit
predictive data analytics, passengers will personalize their journey experience
and baggage will be tracked end-to-end.

BIG DATA
Analytics
How Big Data is transforming Airports in SMART
AIRPORTS
BIG DATA
Massive collection of
information about distances
between airport gates,
baggage handling efficiency,
flight durations, remote virtual
tower…
• Increased efficiency;
• Improved customer
experience;
• Cost reduction
• Higher security
Maintenanc
e/Inventory
Asset
manageme
nt
Flight
operations
Pilots&crew
In 2015, the security systems
segment dominated the
investments in the aviation
market mainly in view of rising
terrorist attacks

Upcoming Invitation to Tender
SERVICES for SMART AIRPORTS Feasibility Study
100% funding, €250k
Duration: 9 months
ITT issue: Q4 2017
Several parallel contracts possible
In collaboration with :
Application domains (non exhaustive):
• Enhance the passenger journey and experience;
• Enhance Identity Management ;
• Improve operational efficiency and resilience;
• Smart Cybersecurity;
• Provide Advance airport security systems;
• Increase safety of operations in and around airports;
• Move towards greener airports.
Objectives: define and assess technically and economically
potentially sustainable services for SMART AIRPORTS

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UMS applications
and services could
emerge
Mine counter
Measures
(Detection,
identification
and
detonation)
Protection of
critical
Infrastructures
Maritime
Surveillance
Environmental
Monitoring
Logistics and
maintenance
of marine
infrastructures
for the
offshore wind
farms
Feasibility Study Objectives: to identify and characterize UMS based services exploiting
at least one space asset, addressing potentially interesting application domains, carry out
the analysis of their technical feasibility and commercial viability, select the most promising
ones for further development and exploitation, and propose a roadmap for the
implementation and demonstration of the proposed services.
Coming in
the Q1
2018
Space and Unmanned Maritime Systems (UMS) -
based Maritime Services

Conclusions
1. Big Data will enable a step forward in a number of domains
thanks to the development of new applications
2. Data sources are multiplying and IoT systems becoming
operational at unprecedented pace
3. Space has a key role in big data generation; directly through
remote sensing satellites, or by enabling operation of other
assets, which in turn are source of big data: HAPs, RPAs,
Smart/Unmanned ships, connected cars
4. ESA Business Applications collects needs and requirements
from stakeholders from the commercial and institutional sector
for supporting Industry in developing relevant applications,
addressing economic and societal challenges of future societies

European Space Agency
ESA Business Applications
→ SPACE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Rita.Rinaldo@esa.int

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