The Environmental Crime workshop is a joint initiative of ESA and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission to foster a greater uptake of Earth Observation technology in environmental compliance assurance. It was held on June 11 and 12 2024 at ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.
The workshop objectives have been to:
– Identify and review methods enabled by geospatial data sources, and particularly Earth Observation, to support better detection and characterization of environmental crimes and their consequences.
– Enhance awareness of the latest developments in geospatial and open source intelligence in the context of multidisciplinary evidence collection to assure environmental compliance.
– Identify gaps in administrative capacity or expertise among enforcement authorities.
– Collect insights on priority areas to improve the integration of EO capabilities in intelligence workflows and protocols for environmental crime investigations.
– Aligning with stakeholders’ agenda, highlight the importance of developing crime-countering strategies that are evidence-based and data-driven, addressing both the root causes of crime and its environmental, societal and economic dimensions.
– Inform the definition of requirements for Earth Observation and other geospatial products and services supporting environmental crime investigations.
– Outline a way forward to implement new solutions for a wider uptake of EO into investigations of environmental crimes within the ESA-JRC cooperation activities.
Mozaika’s CEO Mariana Damova took part in the panel on water related environmental crimes, sharing insight about our research and activities in the water resources management domain and how our solution can contribute to combatting such environmental crimes.
