Definition of Standard Scenarios

The COURAGEOUS project aims at the development of a common baseline understanding amongst Member State authorities concerning the effectiveness of different technical systems intended for specific use in the detection, tracking and identification of non-cooperative drones (DTI). Therefore, the COURAGEOUS project focuses on the development of a set of relevant standard scenarios that will describe different situations in which protection from non-cooperative UAS may be necessary.
After the second amendment, the deliverable 2.3 was separated in two deliverables:
 D2.3.1: this document describes the methodology and the first identification of the standard scenarios
 D2.3.2: this document will be submitted after the execution of the first trial execution and focus on the validation and evaluation of the standard scenarios that were developed in this deliverable.
Deliverable D2.3.1 (“Definition of Standard Scenarios”) describes a set of standard scenarios related to UAS attacks. The collected knowledge from the previous activities, the report on previous incidents & the identification of gaps, as well as the review of the current C-UAS framework, are all combined and form an initial design for the upcoming trials which will take place later in the project.
The key output of the current Deliverable is a set of standard scenarios and use cases, as well as a preliminary but coherent and structured design of the trials, all of which will be exploited to extract the functional and non-functional requirements of the system in WP3 and will act as the basis for shaping the scenarios and pilot planning in WP5. The current deliverable will also be utilized to create a detailed evaluation framework towards the validation of scenarios after the first execution and the workshop with end-users and relevant stakeholders that will be organized after the first execution.
A methodological approach was followed for the development of the standard scenarios. It starts with an identification of the end-user needs for the use of the different tools and techniques. The overall goal was to determine the most important needs of the law enforcement agencies (LEAs), the analysis of relevant incidents and the technological framework that depicts the current situation, as well as the gaps faced by the European Union. In this framework, a detailed questionnaire was drafted, asking LEAs for specific information in several domains. Building on this data, a set of standard scenarios were drafted. The identified standard scenarios depict situations in which C-UAS is necessary for a variety of different circumstances and thus, they will provide a useful baseline for evaluation of all the parameters of any DTI system in WP3 & WP4, taking into consideration the dedicated operational needs of end-users.