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2-year Eritr@C project aims at extending the operation of the EURITRACK* system
to improve the data analysis and transfer the technology to UE Custom Agencies.
The 7 partners (research institutes, academics, SME, Law Enforcement Agency)
will provide an enlarged experimental database stemming from the system
operation, automatic decision making based on artificial intelligence, a status
report of the legislation on cargo fast neutron inspection, a end-user training
course with hands-on and afinal workshop in Italy for law-enforcement agencies.
*EURITRACK aims at
increasing the security of the seaports by developing a Kit to non-intrusively
detect explosives or other threat materials concealed in shipping containers.
Shipping is a key international industry; 95% of the world cargo is moved
by ship corresponding to over 200 million containers per year exchanged between
major seaports. This huge movement leads to a risk that a container could be
used by a terrorist group. As a result, the maritime industry must consider very
seriously any potential threat for disruption of the trade. Today, inspections
of containers are largely based on X-or Gamma Ray systems but they provide
limited information about contained objects such as their shape and density.
Controllers can not always distinguish between benign and threat materials and
need additional information about the chemical composition of suspect items in
order to detect illicit materials such as explosives, drugs or
dirty bombs.
The 3-year EURITRACK STREP aims at increasing the security of the
seaports by developing a European Illicit Trafficking Countermeasures Kit to
non-intrusively detect explosives or other threat materials concealed in
shipping containers. |
