Summary
The aims for the study are:
- To summarize current understanding of the main proliferation related actors, threats and underlying processes and their evolution expected over the next 5 years.
- To identify organizations responsible for collecting information and analysing threats and risks related to chemical, nuclear and radiological proliferation and their interaction.
- To review the information collection and analysis systems and methods operated by these organizations and identify gaps or constraints in information collection and analysis processes (both at present and with respect to potential threat/risk evolution).
- To identify information products of relevance for counter-proliferation derived from civilian EO satellites, characterize the extent to which these address the gaps and constraints in conventional information collection and analysis capabilities (both at present and with respect to potential threat/risk evolution) and elaborate the required levels of performance to be achieved for the EO data collection systems in order to ensure the identified gaps and constraints are comprehensively addressed.
