Change Detection in Rural Localities for Semi-Automated Border Surveillance Applied to Insecure Areas in Lake Chad Basin1st Extending The Market Challenge (EM1) |
![]() Challenge DescriptionSome borderlands in Sahel countries are insecure due to the presence of armed groups, which makes the field deployment of Customs resources complex. The aim of this challenge is to explore the possibilities to implement semi-automated border surveillance by detecting potential areas favoring smuggling activities. The World Customs Organization (WCO), established in 1952 as the Customs Co-operation Council (CCC), is an independent intergovernmental body whose mission is to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Customs administrations. Today, the WCO represents 183 Customs administrations across the globe that collectively process approximately 98% of world trade. As the global center of Customs expertise, the WCO is the only international organization with competence in Customs matters and can rightly call itself the voice of the international Customs community. The goal of the Challenge is to make the border surveillance semi-automated, by detecting changes in rural localities that may evidence a suspicious economic development, using change detection maps from Sentinel-1 images acquired in IW Mode at 10m and 5m. One data pipeline was defined under this challenge. |
ResultsThe results below are divided into Software Repositories, Online Services and Data Products Repositories.
Software RepositoriesThere are two categories of software repositories generated for the Challenge:
Follow the links below to proceed to one or the other, and find an "Ellip Workflows (ewf)" software application implementing a data processing function.
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Data Processing as-a-ServiceThere are two categories of "Data Processing as-a-Service" application packages created for the Data Challenge:
Follow the links below to proceed to one or the other, via a dedicated Geobrowser application providing web access to one or the other of the Data Processing services.
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Data Product RepositoriesThere is a dedicated client App publicly available for the visualization of the data products resulting from EO data processing challenges. The results can consist of:
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