The COVID-19 pandemic spreading determined the need for several countries to define methods to show the current status of the spreading in each country, in each region or even in each municipality. During the initial expansion phase, it was important to establish which was the growth rate and...

In this paper we address the issue of the automatic detection of abnormal behavior in time series extracted from international trade data. We motivate, review and use three specific methods, based on solid frameworks: Wavelets, Kalman Filter and Forward Search. These methods have been...

This report describes the full life cycle of an intercomparison among European laboratories monitoring radioactivity in the environment. Gravimetrically pipetting droplets of a gravimetrically diluted standardised 137Cs solution onto real air filters, SI-traceable reference values were...

This report describes the full life cycle of the measurement comparison of 137Cs in air filters among 43 European laboratories monitoring radioactivity in the environment. Gravimetrically pipetting droplets of a gravimetrically diluted standardised 137Cs solution onto real air filters,...

The last two decades have seen a growing concern about rising inequality. In a recent book (2012), Economics Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz argues that rising income inequality is one of the main factors underlying the economic and financial crisis in the United States. Wilkinson and Pickett...

This report describes a risk assessment process for Critical Infrastructures (CI) based on the staff working document from DG ECHO namely "Risk Assessment and Mapping Guidelines for Disaster Management" and DG HOME "on a new approach to the European Programme for Critical Infrastructure...

In this report we provide an informal mathematical introduction to the use of some methods from graph theory for the data analysis of non-standard time series. By this we mean information from a channel that is not presented to us in the usual format as a regular sequence of numbers. In...

This article describes the methodology and results of a new JRC phenology-based classification algorithm able to generate accurate land cover map sin a fully automatic manner from Landsat 8 (L8)remote sensed data available since 12th April 2013 at no charge throughout the USGS website. A...