Francesco Soldovieri National Council of Research (CNR) Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA) Topic BES 1 - 2014: Maritime Border Security topic 1: radar systems for the surveillance of coastal and pre-frontier areas and in support of search and rescue operations Interest to be partner SMI2G MEETING 2014 January 23 – 24 2014, Bruxelles 1

Role in the project Marine X-band Radar SMI2G MEETING 2014 Objective: To develop an innovative system based on X-band marine radars for search and rescue application. The analysis of marine radar data provides real time information about sea surface current and waves. This allows at localizing with good accuracy the search area so to improve the efficiency of the rescue procedures. The possibility to exploit radars of improved performance will permit to design “ad hoc” techniques able to produce more accurate results. Expertise: Analysis of marine radar images to extract sea state parameters as: direction, period, wavelength of dominant waves, significant wave height, surface current and bathymetry maps. Relevant Experience: HABITAT : National Operative Program Sea state and surface current monitoring at Salerno (Italy) harbour RITMARE: Italian Project Involvement in the WAVE RADAR coastal network for sea state, current and bathymetry monitoring SMI2G MEETING 2014 January 23 – 24 2014, Bruxelles 2 2

Products and outcomes Waves and current monitoring Marine X-band Radar Waves and current monitoring To develop and use in real conditions X-band radars for the estimation of sea wave, and surface current from fast vessels and/or costal installation. To design an operational strategy, based on sea and wind information, as support to search and rescue operations. Local and remote databases To store sea state measurements and current maps in local (on board) and remote database for time series generation and post processing. GeoView Integrate the results in a Web-Scenario (geo-reference on web maps) . SMI2G MEETING 2014 January 23 – 24 2014, Bruxelles

Contact Information CONTACT INFO For further information, you may contact: Name of contact point : Francesco Soldovieri Name of organization : IREA-CNR Mailing address : Via Diocleziano 328, 80124 Napoli, Italy Telephone number : +39 081 7620651 E-mail address : soldovieri.f@irea.cnr.it SMI2G MEETING 2014 January 23 – 24 2014, Bruxelles 4