PERIVALLON: Improved Intelligence Picture and Operational Capacities to Combat Organised Environmental Crime

PERIVALLON is a Horizon Europe co-funded Innovation Action project, entitled ‘Protecting the European territory from organised environmental crime through intelligent threat detection tools’ that started in December 2022 and focuses on combatting organised environmental crime by: (1) delivering an environmental crime observatory aiming to provide an improved and comprehensive intelligence picture of organised environmental crime, (2) developing an environmental crime detection and investigation platform at the forefront of technological innovation and (3) improving capacity building and international cooperation of security practitioners through enhanced investigation processes. The project aims to address the needs of police authorities, border guards and regional and national authorities fighting organised environmental crime, as the main security practitioners. To materialise such ambition, the platform exploits the latest advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) in the fields of geospatial intelligence, remote sensing, online monitoring and multimodal analytics. This paper offers an initial look into the PERIVALLON project, its objectives, ambition and the technological components that will be integrated into a tailored platform that is expected to significantly increase the capacity of relevant authorities to detect, investigate and prevent environmental crimes in Europe and beyond.