Giovanni Cannizzaro - Telespazio

Le projet LIMES : Land and Sea Integrated Monitoring

For European Security

Les 7èmes journées scientifiques et techniques du CETMEF – Paris – 8, 9 et 10 décembre 2008

LIMES

•Project Overview

• GMES Security • 42 months programme,

started 1° December 2006 • 45 partners from 11 European countries

and around 20/25 main users• Budget: 21 Million €

LIMES Overview

Development of satellite-based services providing relevant information and decision-support tools in relation to the following domains:

Organization and distribution of humanitarian relief & reconstruction

Surveillance of the EU borders (land and sea)Surveillance and protection of maritime transport for sensitive cargo

Protection against emerging security threats

LIMES MARITIME

Maritime Surveillance: Monitoring of both Vessel and Sensitive

Cargo movements over coastal and open ocean areas .

based on satellite SAR and include the integration of VMS, AIS, SATCOM, other vessels and aircraft data

Test areas are Mediterranean, North Sea, Atlantic and areas outside EU.

Main Users are Coasts Guards, Customs, FRONTEX; others EU and Internl Agencies

SAR - AIS integration

Maritime surveillance

MaritimePatrol

Aircraft

Satellite SAR Surveillance

Long Range Identification

& Tracking

AIS

CoastalRadar

VHR OpticalMonitoring

C2 Centre

C2 Centre

VTS Centre

Optical Monitoringof Suspicious

Behaviour

EU Waters: AIS/Coastal Radar Max Range

3rd PartyTerritorialWaters

Maritime Surveillance Service 2008 Demonstrations

Coastal WaterCargo

Atlantic

Baltic/North Sea

Eastern Med

Caribbean

Non EU

Earth Observation

•Correlation SAR-AIS

1. SAR Ships

2. SAR + AIS

3. CorrelationSAR - AIS

4. Uncorrelatedships

Earth Observation

EO data provide a new “information” layer to the Maritime Picture

Satellites detect all vessels (both cooperative and non cooperative)

Examples of COSMO-SkyMed Potentiality

Cosmo-SkyMed 1, Spotlight-2 imaging mode; angle 30°15 May 2008 11:03 UTC, Descending orbit, Right looking

FRONTEX Nautilus Demo (July – August 08)

Area of Interest (AOI) for satellite acquisitions

Nautilus 2008 Operation

Data Provision: Cosmo-SkyMed (CSK) Earth Observation data acquisitions to support the Joint Operation NAUTILUS 2008 (illegal immigration)

Service Provision: Near Real Time Tasking, Acquisition, Processing, and Product delivery via WebGIS

Personnel Support: Telespazio personnel at the Operational Center in Malta – NAUTILUS 2008 Team coordinated by FRONTEX

Surveillance Outside Europe

Illegal trafficking surveillance in the Caribbean waters

• SCENARIO

• The Caribbean waters: a transit zone of narco-traffic, from South America to U.S., Europe and local markets.

• Mostly by sea: small go-fast vessels, larger fishing vessels, yachts and freight carriers

Caribbean Waters

•Services

Caribbean small areas surveillance

in off line conditions with RADAR high resolution satellite

Detection of small vessels

Open ocean routes monitoring

in off line conditions with RADAR satellites

Detection and tracking of large vessels

Caribbean Large area monitoring

in Near Real Time conditions with RADAR and Optical satellites

Surveillance of activities and maritime situation update

Caribbean Waters

• SAR and complementary optical data.

• Data reception by Cayenne ground station

• vessel extraction in Cayenne facilities

• Picture made available to Fort de France end user centre

• Near real time use

•Large area monitoring

Caribbean Waters

• Routine surveillance of routes in the Atlantic Ocean

• Systematic wide swath SAR data acquired and made available to EUSC

• Full reports made at EUSC

•Open Ocean routes monitoring

Cargo Surveillance

Satellite-based solution for cargoes monitoring and protection of maritime transport along sea lanes and corridors of special interest.

The Sensitive Cargo Surveillance responds to the needs of E-Navigation along trans-national routes

Cargo Surveillance

•architecture

The inferred maritime picture from traffic and meteocean information, is delivered to:

Port of Destination

Coast Guards

VTS Centers

Service Center

Port of Origin

On board Maritime Picture

In-situ MP

(AIS-Coastal Radar)

Ground Station Ship Detection Report

Risk

Analysis

Coast Guards

VTS Centers

Info Service Info Service

Delivery Delivery

Shipowner

Premises

(i) Coast Guards,

(ii) Shipowners,

(iii) On board

Sensitive Cargo Surveillance

AIS Transponder – GPS Receiver

Visualisation Console

On Board Platform

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· Visualisation Tables· Alarms

DBOn board systems

interface

ORBCOMM

Uplink: 2.4 kbps @ 148.00-150.05 MHz Downlink: 4.8 kbps @ 137.00-138.00 MHz

Message Decoder

ORBCOMM Terminal

Subscriber Uplink Rate: 2.4 kbpsSubscriber Downlink Rate: 4.8 kbps3.

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Visualisation Console

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Message generator4.

On board segment

Ground segment

Sensitive Cargo Surveillance

USER FEEDBACK

Ability to acquire imagery and provide analysis was appreciated and well received : user ready to develop this service further – need to work on service integration

Development foreseen to provide operational support in the next 2 to 5 years

Satellite imageries and vessel detection reports useful to: follow maritime routes to plan reconnaissance missions

At present: revisit time insufficient for real time monitoring trade-off resolution/swath lead to difficulties in detecting small vessel

simultaneously/synoptically over a large area improvement needed to reduce false detection and to provide vessel

speed

CREDITS

• Armed Force of Malta• ASI – Italian Space Agency• D’Appolonia• DLR – German Space Agency• EADS Astrium• ESA – European Space Agency• EUSC – European Satellite Centre• French Navy • FRONTEX• Italian Coast Guard• JRC – Joint Research Centre

LIMES Actors

Coordinator: Telespazio; Scientific Coordinator: EC-JRC

Cluster Service coordinators: DLR (Humanitarian Relief)QinetiQ (Maritime Surveillance)

GMV (Land and infrastructure surveillance)

Capability/Product main partners: Joint Research CentreInfoterra Telespazio

Thales Alenia Space

User Groups: Representative of the Main Users

Cargo Surveillance

•Products

Alarms (transmitted to the ship)“Suspect” vessel detection (EO/in-situ based info)

Risk Maps (delivered to the Authorities and sip owners), customized for:

Management of Tracks in the corridor (Interpolation – Propagation of traffic and meteocean data)

Examples of COSMO-SkyMed Potentiality

Cosmo-SkyMed 1, Spotlight-2 imaging mode; angle 30°15 May 2008 11:03 UTC, Descending orbit, Right looking

Earth Observation

The SAR image

On-Going Validation Activities

The SAR image and detected Ships

On-Going Validation Activities

The SAR image with AIS tracks and detected SHIPs

On-Going Validation Activities

AIS tracks of ship with length less than 90 meters

Cargo Ship

MMSI Number 201100105

IMO Number 7600873

Length = 82 meters

Width = 13 meters

On-Going Validation Activities

The Ship Detection depends on the Signal to Noise ratio, sea condition and view angle. For Ship with length less than the resolution products, the Ship sizes could not be measured precisely.

Nautilus 2008 Operation

• Period: July 17 – Aug 06, 2008 (21 days)• COSMO SK1 & COSMO SK2: two satellites in dawn/dusk orbit, therefore acquisitions over the AOI occur in the morning (~5-6 a.m. UTC) and/or in the evening (~5-6 p.m UTC)• Images acquired in different observing modes, defined on a day by day basis, 1 to 3 acquisitions per day (34 images)• 2 hours between data acquisition and ship detection report (642 targets reported)