7SHIELD

Safety and Security Standards of Space Systems, ground Segments and Satellite data assets, via prevention, detection, response and mitigation of physical and cyber threats

Objective

The project addresses the security and the resilience of EU Ground Segments of Space Systems, meeting the crosscutting and the sectorial criteria of the EU critical infrastructures (2008/14). 7SHIELD will be an integrated yet flexible and adaptable framework enabling the deployment of innovative services for cyber-physical protection of ground segments, such as e-fences, passive radars and laser technologies, multimedia AI technologies, that enhance their protection capabilities, while integrating or interoperating with existing protection solutions already deployed at their installations.

Impact

The framework will integrate advanced technologies for data integration, processing, and analytics, machine learning and recommendation systems, data visualization and dashboards, data security and cyber threat protection. The technological solution is co-designed with first responders’ teams and contributes to policy making, standardisation and new guidelines for contingency planning and service continuity. The project will be evaluated and demonstrated in five installations of ground segments of space systems.

INOV’s Participation

INOV leads the tasks of Infrared and thermal image processing and First Respond tactical team DSS connected to wearable sensors using IoT. INOV works on detection and classification algorithms for identification of objects based on thermal image processing. In 7SHIELD, this will allow first-responders to access real-time information, due to automatic event detection. Other contribution is the Tactical Decision Support System (TDSS) terminals to support operational teams in the field.