PERIVALLON – Protecting the EuRopean terrItory from organised enVironmentAl crime through inteLLigent threat detectiON tools
Los delitos medioambientales se identifican como una de las principales amenazas del crimen organizado a las que se enfrenta la Unión Europea. El vertido intencional de sustancias contaminantes, la eliminación ilegal de desechos peligrosos, el tráfico ilegal transfronterizo de desechos o el comercio ilegal de gases fluorados, bajo el paraguas de una red criminal estructurada, son ejemplos reales del crimen medioambiental organizado en la actualidad. La detección e investigación de estos delitos es particularmente difícil mediante medios convencionales, destacando la necesidad de soluciones más sofisticadas que permitan la identificación y recopilación de pruebas de forma remota, así como el análisis y correlación de todas las evidencias obtenidas.
PERIVALLON tiene como objetivo proporcionar inteligencia completa sobre el crimen medioambiental organizado. Para ello, el proyecto desarrolla herramientas para prevenir y detectar este tipo de actividades criminales y evaluar su impacto ambiental. Estas herramientas se basan en tecnologías de inteligencia geoespacial, teledetección, escaneo, monitorización online, correlación, evaluación de riesgos y análisis predictivo, explotando los últimos avances en inteligencia artificial (IA) y análisis multimodal. Como resultado, se derivan procesos operativos y metodologías de investigación criminal mejorados.
PERIVALLON tiene un presupuesto de 5.7M€ (cofinanciado por la UE en el marco del programa Horizonte Europa). Con una duración de 36 meses y un consorcio formado por 24 socios, bajo la coordinación de ETRA I+D, el proyecto se valida en 4 grandes demostraciones transnacionales, incluyendo una agencia europea y autoridades de Italia, Grecia, Bélgica, Suecia, Rumanía y Moldavia.
PROGRAMME: EU Horizon Europe
ABSTRACT:
PERIVALLON aims to provide an improved and comprehensive intelligence picture of organised environmental crime and develop effective and efficient tools and solutions for detecting and preventing such types of criminal activities and for assessing their environmental impact based on geospatial intelligence, remote sensing, scanning, online monitoring, analysis, correlation, risk assessment, and predictive analytics technologies, by leveraging the latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the fields of computer vision and multimodal analytics. As a result, enhanced investigation processes and methodologies will be derived through the capabilities provided by the developed tools and solutions, and the insights obtained though the proposed Environmental Crime Observatory. The capacity of end users (including Police Authorities and Border Guards) is also improved and enables them to tackle such criminal activities in an effective manner based on advanced tools and solutions and also on the innovative training curricula developed using physical and/or digital twins of relevant environmental crime scenarios. Moreover, improved international cooperation is facilitated through improved data sharing enabled by blockchain technologies, while improved regulation shaping and tuning is supported through relevant policy recommendations. PERIVALLON is validated in field tests and demonstrations in four operational use cases. Extensive training, hands-on experience, joint exercises, and training material boost the uptake of PERIVALLON tools and technologies. With a Consortium 5 Police and Border Guard Authorities, 3 authorities related to environmental protection, 6 Research/Academic institutions, 8 industry partners (including seven SMEs), one EU Agency, and one Foundation, PERIVALLON delivers a strong representation of the challenges, requirements and tools to meet its objectives.
COORDINATOR: ETRA INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO, S.A.
PARTNERS:
- EUROPEAN UNION SATELLITE CENTRE (SATCEN) – ES
- CENTRE FOR RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY HELLAS (CERTH) – EL
- POLITECNICO DI MILANO (POLIMI) – IT
- CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES (KEMEA) – EL
- UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA (UNIVIE) – AT
- UNIVERISITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND LEGAL AFFAIRS IN BAVARIA (BAYHFOD) – DE
- DRAXIS ENVIRONMENTAL S.A. (DRAXIS) – EL
- SET MOBILE SRL (SMOB) – RO
- DYLOG HITECH (DYLOG) – IT
- MARINTRAFIK OPEREISONS (MT) – EL
- SAFE FOUNDATION (SAFE) – IT
- AGENZIA REGIONALE PER LA PROTEZIONE DELL’AMBIENTE DELLA LOMBARDIA (ARPA) – IT
- DE WATERGROEP (DWG) – BE
- HELLENIC MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY (HMOEE) – EL
- CARABINIERI CORPS (IT-CC) – IT
- SWEDISH POLICE AUTHORITY (SPA) – SE
- GENERAL INSPECTORATE OF ROMANIAN BORDER POLICE (RBP) – RO
- HELLENIC POLICE (HP) – EL
- GENERAL POLICE INSPECTORATE OF MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF REPUBLIC OF MOLDAVIA (IGP) – MD
- TAMAR ISRAELI AVANCED QUARRYING CO LTD (TMR) – IL
- SAHER EUROPE OU (SH) – EE
- RADEXPERT CONSULTING AND MANAGEMENT (RAD) – RO
- SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY (CENTRIC) – UK
KEY WORDS: Geospatial intelligence, AI multimodal analytics, intelligence picture, environmental crime observatory, HFCs, waste disposal and trafficking, smuggling routes, training.