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Fully Automated Maritime Surveillance System Developed for EU Borders
Mark Hoffman
First Posted: Jul 17, 2013 04:19 PM EDT
Europe's territorial waters are difficult, dangerous and expensive to monitor and patrol. An innovative fully automated and autonomous system can help keep a watchful eye on the EU''s coastlines for suspicious activity at a fraction of the cost.
Protecting Europe''s extensive coastlines is a challenging, risky and costly endeavour, relying heavily, as it does, on patrol boats and surveillance flights. The latest in electronic surveillance technology can help develop a reliable, continuous system for monitoring EU coasts.
Funded by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), the ''Autonomous maritime surveillance system'' (AMASS) project has designed a reliable, round-the-clock maritime monitoring solution. This includes a flotation platform, optronics, hydrophones, communications, power management and image exploitation, as well as command and control.
The system depends on a line of buoys – each equipped with the latest visual and acoustic sensors – located offshore to amass comprehensive data on movement and activities in Europe''s territorial waters. When AMASS detects a suspicious vessel, it relays images directly to a control centre on shore, enabling coastguards and other services to take swift and appropriate action.
Once adopted, the AMASS system will enable maritime border agencies to monitor their territorial waters for suspicious small vessels, such as those used by traffickers and smugglers, at a fraction of the current cost and risk. -- © 2013 European Union, CORDIS
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First Posted: Jul 17, 2013 04:19 PM EDT
Europe's territorial waters are difficult, dangerous and expensive to monitor and patrol. An innovative fully automated and autonomous system can help keep a watchful eye on the EU''s coastlines for suspicious activity at a fraction of the cost.
Funded by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), the ''Autonomous maritime surveillance system'' (AMASS) project has designed a reliable, round-the-clock maritime monitoring solution. This includes a flotation platform, optronics, hydrophones, communications, power management and image exploitation, as well as command and control.
The system depends on a line of buoys – each equipped with the latest visual and acoustic sensors – located offshore to amass comprehensive data on movement and activities in Europe''s territorial waters. When AMASS detects a suspicious vessel, it relays images directly to a control centre on shore, enabling coastguards and other services to take swift and appropriate action.
Once adopted, the AMASS system will enable maritime border agencies to monitor their territorial waters for suspicious small vessels, such as those used by traffickers and smugglers, at a fraction of the current cost and risk. -- © 2013 European Union, CORDIS
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