Benefiting from Space for Maritime security – Ensuring the continuity of surveillance from open seas to coastal areas
- Paper number
IAC-06-E3.3.09
- Author
Mrs. Fabienne Jacq, CLS, France
- Year
2006
- Abstract
Since 11/09, threats characteristics evolved: high seas can be viewed as the scene for illegal activities potentially dangerous for homeland security: drug traffic, illegal immigration, weapons traffic, or bases for terrorist attacks. From the policy point of view, Open Ocean is a vast territory relatively lawless and less monitored. Concerned of such weaknesses, international bodies, Europe and Member States started thinking about setting up capacities and policies to support an improved and global security and safety at sea, enhancing surveillance missions for prevention and preparedness against potential threats, enhancing also response at sea, while embracing the environmental dimension of security at sea also. Going through threats understanding, missions setting up, Space provides clearly core capacities that can support the improvement of maritime security contributing globally to all classical phases of security issues: prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. R\&D, Pilot projects in EU already demonstrated and are currently going on to demonstrate the benefit of space coupled and integrated with other "short range" capacities to contribute to maritime security both in the field of Earth Observation, Telecommunications and data collection or localization. Some Member States passed the step already to use it operationally to support i.e. control of illegal fishing or maritime traffic surveillance but there are few. Big challenges are de facto remaining in front of Research, Industry, Services operators but also Stakeholders in order for Space to be defined as one of the major "instrument" for an improved global maritime security capacity serving lives and goods protection all over the ocean: - Development of high performances capacities - Integration of space data and other sources of data into a combination of capacities \& systems supporting operational user infrastructures and operational procedures - Guaranty of continuity of service from space capacities and data availability/integrity - Sensibilisation of stakeholders in supporting the setting up of space capacities for maritime security and use at international, regional up to national and local levels. The purpose of this presentation will be to illustrate operational key requirements addressed by maritime security, answering both to public and private concerns, that could be served by space, illustrate the discussion with leading edge solutions currently developed in Europe and elaborate on technological challenges that the space industry should face to answer to the maritime sector of activity.
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