THE DOLPHIN PROJECT
PRESENTATION TO THE
4TH MARITIME BORDER SURVEILLANCE
IMPLEMENTATION GROUP MEETING
PAOLA NICOLOSI, DOLPHIN PROJECT COORDINATOR
DG HOME, BRUSSELS, MARCH 1ST, 2012
DOLPHIN aim and impacts
Main aim of DOLPHIN is to fill the current technological gaps,
identifying and developing new tools providing effective
improvements of the state-of-the-art capabilities in Maritime
Surveillance with respect to Users’ real needs.
Improve Maritime Surveillance Awareness inside an
integrated picture for maritime surveillance services:
- Prevention and management of illegal activities at sea (Border
Surveillance)
- Prevention and management of collision, grounding in sea areas
(Traffic Safety)
- Control of illegal fisheries (Fisheries Control)
DOLPHIN Project will respond to through the development
of Decision Support Modules (DSM), providing actual
and effective added values to Users’ decisions making
processes.
DSMs will be based on the integration of
innovative Software Tools, aiming at filling
specific Technological Gaps, stressing technological
solutions beyond the current state-of-the-art.
Operational scenario campaigns
Q4 2012
Drugs traffic- small/fast
Atlantic area between
Morocco and Portugal
Q1 2013
Illegal trafficHigh dynamics/data fusion
North Sea and Baltic area
Bay of Biscay
Early warning for crossings
Q2 2013
Drugs traffic-big ships
near small/ anomalous behav.
Azores-Portugal
English Channel
Early warning for grounding
Q3 2013
Q4 2013
Illegal immigration
Libya and Lampedusa
North East Passage –Norway/
Russia - Ice conditions
Plus 3 Joint Scenarios campaigns
1.
2.
3.
South West Approaches Europe/English
channel
Navarea-XIX Barents Sea, Norway
Marocco/Portugal and Portugal/Azores
Central/Southern Med
Bluefin Tuna and Swordfish
Adriatic sea
transfer of catches Croatia and Italy
MARISS: the starting point in operational
maritime surveillance
• MARISS (MARItime Security
Services), on
going project funded by ESA in the Maritime
Security field.
• Start in 2006, end in 2013 (as DOLPHIN).
Threats
around
EU waters
• The key is the creation of a “MARISS Service
Network”, a network formed by the major
European Service Providers in the maritime
surveillance field.
• MARISS already involve EMSA, Frontex, NATO,
EFCA, Customs, National Coast Guards, Navy.
• The DOLPHIN development will then feed the
operational MARISS services, creating a synergy
between the two projects.
• The continuity of the operational service
provision will be guaranteed by the services
under the AToMS (Advanced Tactical Near Real
Time Services for Maritime Surveillance)
proposal submitted in November 2011, in the
framework of EUROSUR network.
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DOLPHIN benefits
The Border Surveillance DSM will support users by offering:
helping for intelligence information for illegal activity prevention,
reduction of in-situ inspections for border European areas monitoring,
improvement in ship detection probability, size, classification, recognition,
automatic forecast and backward tracking of ships’ routes,
better data fusion capability and complete picture on suspect behavior,
automatic alarm generation, e.g. for specific classes of ships crossing borders.
The Traffic Surveillance DSM will support users by offering:
knowing better the position of ships in advance, as an early warning mechanism,
detection of collision risks in near real time and detection of risks inherent to the ship itself
(hazardous material or blacklisted ships).
The Fisheries Control DSM will support users by offering:
ship localisation with an improved accuracy, to detect fishing boats in protected areas,
detection of abnormal behaviours, such as those where trawling is forbidden,
geo-fencing alerts generated when vessels are detected in areas where fishing is banned.
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DOLPHIN improvements leading to new services
in Border Surveillance in the EUROSUR framework
Before DOLPHIN: small boats detected with low probability
to detect very small and fast boats (indicatively less than 8 meters in length and
travelling at more than 20 knots) such as those used for illegal immigration or drug
smuggling.
Before DOLPHIN: tracking of medium-large vessels, classification no accurate enough
to track boats in near real time (indicatively with an approximate refresh interval of less
than 30 minutes, exploiting both EO and cooperative systems).
Before DOLPHIN: back-tracking of only medium-large vessels
the capability, following a ship detection, to track back a ship route, for determining the
departure points of smugglers, violation of no transit areas.
i.e. only EO tracking boats
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DOLPHIN improvements leading to new services
in Border Surveillance in the EUROSUR framework
Before DOLPHIN: no capacity to well discriminate small and large boats close each other and no elements for
supporting the detection of suspicious behaviour
to discriminate between small and large boats, especially in remote areas, and to identify rendezvous
points for smugglers,
suspect behavior around sensitive assets, i.e. latest position of vessels which have disappeared because
of piracy attack.
DOLPHIN improvements leading to new services
in Border Surveillance in the EUROSUR framework
Before DOLPHIN: no operational recognition and classification from SAR images
Ship models from 3D CAD models. Recognition and classification of vessel using high resolution SAR
data.
Before DOLPHIN: no automatic ship classification
to enhance automatic ships classification with almost continuous monitoring over small/medium size
areas, such as near ports or other coastal assets.
Before DOLPHIN: no validation of AIS integrity
to enhance ship localisation accuracy (ship reporting systems) in order to validate data provided by
declarative systems, such as AIS.
Before DOLPHIN: no discrimination between ships and icebergs.
to detect and classify objects other than ships.
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MARISS & BMM - Example of integration:
the Italian Interministerial node
Ship Detection Data
Details on BMM
webGIS
e-GEOS/Selex collaboration
The Consortium
Participant
no.
Participant organisation name
Country
1
e-GEOS
IT
2
Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT)
3
Participant organisation
name
Country
11
Edisoft S.A. (EDI)
PT
NO
12
European Satellite Centre
(EUSC)
EU
Qinetiq (QQ)
UK
13
Thales Alenia Space – France
(TAS-F)
FR
4
Spacetecpartners (STC)
BE
14
Aster (AS)
IT
5
Space Hellas (SPH)
GR
15
Università degli Studi di
Napoli Federico II (UNINA)
IT
6
Collecte Localisation Satellite (CLS)
FR
16
IT
7
Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt (FFI)
NO
17
Università degli Studi di
Roma La Sapienza
(UNIROMA1)
Instituto de
Telecomunicacoes (IT)
8
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor
Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk
Onderzoek (TNO)
Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und
Raumfahrt (DLR)
NL
18
Oceanwaves (OW)
D
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19
Thales Alenia Space – Italia
(TASI)
IT
Selex – Sistemi Integrati (SSI)
IT
20
Gesellschaft für angewandten
Umweltschutz und Sicherheit
im Seeverkehr (GAUSS)
D
9
10
Participant
no.
PT
PAOLA NICOLOSI
HEAD OF MARITIME SURVEILLANCE BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT
PH.+39.091.8451.394
[email protected]