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Trends in Security Information
The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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Drone related technology
Drone related technology is an umbrella term used to describe all technology related to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), for us also unmanned water- and land vehicles fall under this umbrella. Drones and drone-related technologies originally emerged from the military sector. Besides military use, drone technology also made its advance for commercial and personal use. Accordingly, drones have become central to the functions of various governmental organizations and businesses over the past few years. For example, drones can be used for gathering information, supplying essentials for disaster management, geographic mapping of inaccessible and/or dangerous terrain and locations, surveillance, search and rescue operation (thermal sensor drones), shipping & delivery and aerial photography for real estate. The function of the drone is determined by the payload, e.g. a video camera, other sensor, package (transport function) or other.
Next to a positive function, drones could pose several threats. They could breach privacy standards by detecting and tracking people against their will. There are also examples where drones hinder regular (air)traffic. Rules about flying standards are under development but not yet adequate, therefore everyone is able to buy and fly a drone which can create dangerous situations. There are several examples where drones were succesfully hacked. A controversy is that military drones are dual-use technologies, which means they can have both a civil and a military application. And can, thus, be used to carry out an attack for instance with payloads such as explosives, chemical, radiologial or biological hazards. This is one of the reasons Counter-Drone technologies (C-UAS) are developed to detect and stop drones. C-UAS includes all technology varying from drone monitoring equipment, radio frequency (RF) analysers, acoustic sensors, optical sensors, radar and countermeasures equipment as GPS spoofers, lasers, deployable nets, hacking and many more.
Related keywords: Counter-Drone Technologies, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Systems, Dual-use.
Drone related technology is an umbrella term used to describe all technology related to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), for us also unmanned water- and land vehicles fall under this umbrella. Drones and drone-related technologies originally emerged from the military sector. Besides military use, drone technology also made its advance for commercial and personal use. Accordingly, drones have become central to the functions of various governmental organizations and businesses over the past few years. For example, drones can be used for gathering information, supplying essentials for disaster management, geographic mapping of inaccessible and/or dangerous terrain and locations, surveillance, search and rescue operation (thermal sensor drones), shipping & delivery and aerial photography for real estate. The function of the drone is determined by the payload, e.g. a video camera, other sensor, package (transport function) or other.
Next to a positive function, drones could pose several threats. They could breach privacy standards by detecting and tracking people against their will. There are also examples where drones hinder regular (air)traffic. Rules about flying standards are under development but not yet adequate, therefore everyone is able to buy and fly a drone which can create dangerous situations. There are several examples where drones were succesfully hacked. A controversy is that military drones are dual-use technologies, which means they can have both a civil and a military application. And can, thus, be used to carry out an attack for instance with payloads such as explosives, chemical, radiologial or biological hazards. This is one of the reasons Counter-Drone technologies (C-UAS) are developed to detect and stop drones. C-UAS includes all technology varying from drone monitoring equipment, radio frequency (RF) analysers, acoustic sensors, optical sensors, radar and countermeasures equipment as GPS spoofers, lasers, deployable nets, hacking and many more.
Related keywords: Counter-Drone Technologies, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Systems, Dual-use.
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