CarmentiS A German Early Warning Information System - Challenges and Approaches -

CarmentiS, a joint effort of the early warning working group within the German CERT association, provides an infrastructure and organizational framework for sharing, correlating and cooperatively analyzing sensor data. This article gives an overview of the CarmentiS infrastructure and organizational framework, and describes the current status of the project. It also addresses open questions that can only be solved by experimenting with co-operative analysis and gives an outlook of possible further developments of the CarmentiS approach towards improved situation awareness and early warning.