Data and Tools to Counter Terrorism

Tool Catalog

The objective of the Tool Catalog is to provide an overview of JRC tools and applications, at the disposal of practitioners and stakeholders to meet their specific technical needs. Access is subject to approval based on a justified 'need-to-know'. All JRC tools and applications follow a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach.

Blast Load Assessment and Damage Evaluation (BLADE)

This tool allows a preliminary assessment of the expected consequences after the impact of a blast wave on structures, structural components and people. Its results are based on a combination of Pressure-Impulse curves and empirically-derived blast parameters.

Vehicle SPEed Evaluation and Dynamics Assessment (V-SPEED)

The tool assesses the maximum speed of threat vehicles by using the urban street geometry from web mapping platforms (openstreetmap). It facilitates the selection of Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM) measures which is based on the combination of threat vehicle speed and mass.

EUROPLEXUS

EUROPLEXUS is a simulation software dedicated to the analysis of fast transient phenomena. The programme is used to assess the performance of structural models under blast and impact.

Urban Blast Simulator

The effects of the propagation of blast waves in urban environments can be modelled by creating simulation models from web mapping platforms (openstreetmap) and analysed through EUROPLEXUS software.

SecData

These databases are automatically generated, extracting daily events from European Media Monitor (EMM) via various information sources (news, newspapers, social media etc.). The use of Machine-Learning and Large Language Model approaches improve data quality.