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MARITIME S E C U R I T Y award which will replace the Elbit sourced LAOS system and will be integrated with Spain’s Sistema Integrado de Vigilância Exterior (SIVE). Indra was also selected to provide Romania’s maritime surveillance systems cover radar, electro–optic sensors linking via a bespoke communications network to the C2 hub based on Constanza. The Transas Baltic company in late 2010 has recently signed a contract with Lithuania to provide a sea surveillance information system (SSIS) for traffic tracking and logging and fisheries surveillance using sensors along Lithuania coast, which will use the Transas Navi-Harbor maritime surveillance and information service. Selex Sistemi Integrati are currently upgrading Italy’s Dispositivo Interministeriale di Sorveglianza Marittima (DISM). In a roughly two year deal to improve coastal radar coverage, SSI will supply seven sites with its remotely operated Radar di Avvistamento per la Scoperta di Superficie-Costiero IASR (RASSCI). The RASSCI is an over the horizon radar, building on the capabilities of the Selex Galileo Gabbiano T2000C radar. Countries in the region are benefiting for outside funding for maritime security. It was recently announced that the US is ELTA's EL/M-2107 is a high resolution advanced miniature radar for security applications including harbour security © AJB 14 ASIAN MILITARY REVIEW donating 16 coastal and 11 shipboard radar systems and C2 posts to Indonesia to cover the Straits of Malacca. The two country plan to extend the network into the Sulawesi Sea and covering roughly 2500km with the overall system centre will be on the island of Batam. Japan has also provided radar to the support maritime security in the same project. The work is funded under US DoD Section 1206 funding to support the international counter-terrorism work. Malaysia has received similar capabilities under the same programme also using US donated radar. In 2008, FLIR Systems announced an order from Malaysia for 12 ThermoVision 2000 (THV2000) long-range thermal imaging sensor systems with a range of up to 20 km for coastal surveillance. In July 2008, Vietnam’s Marine Police ordered Swedish Space Corp’s MSS 6000 maritime surveillance system which will equip CASA C212-400 aircraft for delivery in 2011. The aircraft will be equipped with Side-looking airborne radar, still and video cameras and other on board sensors in all weather and day and night and airborne AIS automatic identification system for ships linked back to base, using broadband satcom. In 2008, Indra were awarded work under Spain’s Sea Horse network system, a secure satcom based system linking Spain, Portugal, Mauritania, Senegal and Cape Verde, focused on information exchange between the parties on illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Raytheon’s HFSWR (High-Frequency Surface Wave Radar) is designed to detect and track ships and low-flying aircraft at beyond 200 nautical mile and has been used by DoD’s CTDPO (Counterdrug Technology Development Program Office) to deliver low-cost, all-weather detection capabilities using polarized HF (High-Frequency) electromagnetic signals which propagate along the sea’s surface rather than stopping at the horizon. Controp’s Thermal Imaging solutions have been used in a number of coastal surveillance solutions. In late 2010, Controp were awarded a contract to supply their Fox 720 Thermal cameras as a coastal surveillance subcontract to local prime contractor in support of India’s Coast Guard. Complete systems built around Fox variants have also been supplied for similar programmes with DANIS systems covering Sydney harbour since 2010. In Italy, five of Controp’s
Radar solutions such as Cassidian’s TRGS can detect, small fleeting targets at range on land sea and air © Cassidian CEDAR systems cover the 9km long Gioia Tauro harbour in a port security system led by IBM Italia, with two systems covering the maritime perimeter, the remainder covering the land facing external fence. The CEDAR system was also used during the Athens Olympics for coastal protection. All the firm’s cameras use Controp’s pioneering continuous optical zoom technology, allowing seamless close in investigation of an object without the operator losing situational awareness by being able to zoom in and out without losing focus. A key feature of Controp’s surveillance systems such as CEDAR, DANIS and others including the SPIDER family is the inclusion of advanced intruder detection software matched to a panoramic scanning capability. Once set up, the camera only needs three complete sweeps taking less than a minute for long range system over 180 degrees. In a coastal environment, the software is able to distinguish between the normal movement of waves or sea birds and pick out swimmers or rigid inflatables and automatically alert operators to their appearance. Controp’s latest camera is the Fox 1400, which equips the SIPDER LR. In recent tests by Spain’s Guardia Civil, the system was able to identify a rigid inflatable test subject at 20km in poor weather at night. The Fox 1400 has a 1.4m focal plane array but this is ‘folded’ using a proprietary method to reduce the actual length of each camera to just 40cm. IAI Elta’s work on coastal surveillance was prompted by terrorist attacks from the sea against Israel in the 1970s. In response the company developed ELM-2112 family of multi-mission multi-function radars designed to detect objects with the range IAI Elta’s work on coastal surveillance was prompted by terrorist attacks from the sea against Israel in the 1970s l MARCH/APRIL 2011 l MARITIME S E C U R I T Y resolution of approximately 1m and is capable of ground and sea surveillance and supports simultaneous processing and in service with 15 customers including on Israel’s coast. The latest version is the V15 which can detect moving targets at up to 30km. Co-operation and organisation Organisational efficiency as much as technology is responsible for ensuring effectiveness in maritime security. Indonesia and Sri Lanka have both recently activated national coast guards. International co-operation is growing too. In July, the South Korean National Marine Police Agency and the Russian Federal Border Service conducted an anti-piracy exercise in the Sea of Japan. Jakarta is reported to be considering coordinated border patrols with Vietnam along their common maritime borders in the South China Sea. Indonesia has also undertaken joint patrols with the Philippine Navy along their common maritime borders. The India- Indonesia Co-ordinated Patrol known as Indido Corpet began on March 5 2010, covering the seas around the Andaman-Nicobar 15
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