Emerging Maritime Surveillance Technologies

Paper number

IAC-11,B1,2,5,x11187

Author

Mr. Frank te Hennepe, OHB System AG, Germany

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Mr. Torkild Eriksen, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway

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Mr. Stefan Foeckersperger, Kayser-Threde GmbH, Germany

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Mr. Frode Storesund, Kongsberg Seatex AS, Norway

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Ms. Leanne Evans, OHB System AG, Germany

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Mr. Karsten Strauch, ESA, The Netherlands

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Mr. Filippo Marliani, ESA, The Netherlands

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Mr. Ghislain Ruy, LuxSpace Sarl, Luxemburg

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Mr. Philippe Ries, LuxSpace Sarl, Luxemburg

Year

2011

Abstract

Being an important spearhead in the GMES programme, maritime security has been deemed a priority by ESA and the European Union. Through navigation and remote sensing, various aspects of maritime security can be monitored such as monitoring shipping routes, anomalous navigation behaviours and illicit trafficking. In order to support the space-based maritime initiatives, the Space-based Maritime Reconnaissance and Surveillance (SMRS) mission was initiated by ESA.
The SMRS mission is a low-cost in orbit demonstration (IOD) mission proposed by ESA for the demonstration of new sensor technologies for ship detection and tracking. SMRS will demonstrate the potential of data fusion products for value added services to the maritime situation awareness community, such as combining AIS data with SAR imagery.
In order to facilitate the production of data fusion products the SMRS spacecraft has been planned to operate in a similar orbit to Sentinel-1 to ensure that the latency between radar images and AIS data is minimal which will ease the fusion of data. For this purpose, the SMRS spacecraft will operate in a 600 km sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), with an 18:00 LTAN. 
The platform that has been chosen for the SMRS spacecraft is the TET+ platform, which is an improvement to the platform of the small satellite TET-1, which will be launched in 2011. The modification to the TET platform increases the allowable payload power, downlink rate and leads to a lower mass/power ratio, resulting in a high-performance, low-cost platform for the SMRS mission. Additionally, the TET+ platform will adhere to requirements for a piggy back launch and will have a short development time. 
The sensors that are foreseen to be accommodated on the TET+ platform are as follows:
\begin{itemize}\item AIS Payload (Kongsberg Seatex)\end{itemize}
\begin{itemize}\item Frequency Monitoring Package (QinetiQ)\end{itemize}
\begin{itemize}\item Navigation Radar Detector (LuxSpace)\end{itemize}
\begin{itemize}\item Maritime FMP (LuxSpace)\end{itemize}
With the selected sensor suit, the SMRS mission is able to offer the following services:
\begin{itemize}\item Ship tracking with AIS\end{itemize}
\begin{itemize}\item Ship positioning using X-band navigation radar emissions\end{itemize}
\begin{itemize}\item Ship detection and coarse positioning based on VHF and UHF emissions\end{itemize}
\begin{itemize}\item Mapping of frequency spectrum utilization in the maritime bands\end{itemize}
After a successful preliminary requirements review, work is planned to proceed into preliminary design (phase–B) in 2011. SMRS is foreseen to be piggy-back launched at the first opportunity after flight acceptance in 2014.

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