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MARITIME
S E C U R I T Y
WHILE Maritime Patrol
Aircraft (MPA) receive
the lion’s share of the
attention in maritime surveillance,
it is land based
sensors that do the lions share of the work
increasingly coupled with command and control
(C2) systems to achieve their effect.
Turnkey solutions
Countries are avidly seeking turnkey solutions
that bring together new and existing
sensors and fuse their feeds within a command
and control networks. France’s
Spationav project, developed by EADS
Sofrelog is the country’s premier maritime
surveillance system integrating sensor feeds
from AIS, airborne and land based sensors
allowing the Gendarmerie and other bodies
to see that information and plan and react
accordingly.
Spationav is undergoing regular
improvements. Obzerv Technologies Inc.
recently won a contract from EADS-Sofrelog
for two ARGC-2400 cameras for use in the
Spationav programme. At 6km, the ARGC-
2400 can detect whether the crew of a fast
moving craft are carrying rifles or not,
allowing a rapid response.
Combinations of sensors are
being used in fixed and mobile
implementations in the coastal
watch role © AJB
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EADS Sofrelog’s maritime security package
are in use in a number of harbours in the
region including Pelabuhan Tanjung
Pelepas, Malaysia; Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Goa,
India and Dalian, China, In other areas they
provide security management systems for
naval facilities at Brest and Toulon and
other classified locations as well as coastal
monitoring capabilities for the Danish military
and a 700km stretch of coastline for the
Finland Maritime Authority.
France is continuing to
work to improve solutions
on its Mediterranean
coast with 30 percent of
the world’s maritime traffic
going through its waters
Sofrelog systems are part of the maritime
surveillance component to the 2007 €240m
Qatari National Security Shield and the
Saudi border surveillance contract covering
the complex environment of the Red Sea
and part of the Arabian Gulf. In June 2010,
EADS Sofrelog and Atlas Maritime Security
announced their intention to form a joint
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venture in this area.
France is continuing to work to improve
solutions on its Mediterranean coast with 30
percent of the world’s maritime traffic going
through its waters. In September, the DGA
signed a contract with DCNS to begin the
€7m SISMARIS programme which provides
a compete information systems and sensors
co-operative and non co-operative tracking
of vessels at day and night and in all weather
conditions at distances of three to four
days out from ports such as Marseille,
roughly from the Straits of Gibraltar to
Western Libya. Information generated will
be shared with partner organisation including
the Centre de Coordination pour la
Lutte Anti-Drogue en Méditerranée,
Gendarmerie Maritime and CROSS MED
(Affaires Maritimes). The SISMARIS programme
includes the installation of a complete
sensor and detection platform with
basic and innovative sensors, high frequency
radar and for long range detection and
integrates of airborne platform. DCNS leads
13 partners in the programme.
Indra Sistemas has recently been awarded
a contract by Portugal for its Sistema
Integrado de Vigilância de Comando e
Controlo (SIVICC) programme in a €25