Division 3 Description of activities

Ad-hoc tasking of SatCen, in compliance with Council Decision 2014/401/CFSP, within the Area of Interest (AOI) (locations of interest within the sovereign state of Syria) and within the mandate of the EEAS – including the associated management and reporting – with regard to the following:

• imagery intelligence (IMINT) and geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) products and services, as described in the SatCen Products and Services Portfolio^f1, for crisis response, situation assessment, detailed analysis, contingency planning and mapping, such as:

  • First Impression Reports (FIRs) in response to crisis situations;

  • Briefing Notes (BNs) over a Location of Interest (LOI)^f2;

  • Reports (Rs) over LOIs with the support of descriptive text, collateral information, vector information, sources, and one or several images describing the object/facility and its environments;

  • Dossiers (Ds) providing intelligence reporting documents over more complex areas composed of LOIs);

  • Feasibility Studies (FSs) necessary to make a pre-assessment of products;

  • Geospatial Contingency Support Package (GCSP) focusing on evacuation activities using satellite imagery, collateral sources and, if possible, supported information from the terrain as primary inputs;

  • Image Maps (IMs) providing relevant and up-to-date thematic information over a specific LOIs;

  • Orthoimage Maps (OMs) providing gridded image maps, including a satellite image over specific LOIs;

  • City Maps (CMs) providing complete base-layer information over a city at a detailed scale;

  • Map Books (MBs) resulting from geographic information system (GIS) analysis techniques, terrain analysis, location of services in urban areas, etc.;

  • Map Coverage (MC) providing complete base-layer information over large areas.

• support to OPCW field mission staff: imagery derived products for planned routes (e.g. route-analysis products assessing the status of the road network).

• training of OPCW staff at SatCen's premises: technical GEOINT training, ArcGIS software training and IMINT product exploitation training. Training at OPCW premises can also be considered when deemed feasible.

Support will be provided to SatCen through the delivery of up to five FIRs (or equivalent effort^f3) per week for the total duration of the project as specified in point 8.