1. Giovanni Cannizzaro - Telespazio
Les 7èmes journées scientifiques et techniques du CETMEF – Paris – 8, 9 et 10 décembre 2008
Le projet LIMES : Land and Sea Integrated Monitoring For European Security
Giovanni Cannizzaro - Telespazio

2. 42 months programme, started 1° December 2006
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 €

3. 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

4. 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

5. Maritime surveillance
Long Range Identification & Tracking
VHR Optical Monitoring
Optical Monitoring of Suspicious Behaviour
Satellite SAR Surveillance
C2 Centre
VTS Centre
Maritime Patrol Aircraft
AIS
Coastal Radar
C2 Centre
3rd Party Territorial Waters
EU Waters: AIS/Coastal Radar Max Range

6. Maritime Surveillance Service 2008 Demonstrations
Caribbean
Coastal Water
Baltic/North Sea
Cargo
Non EU
Atlantic
Eastern Med 6

7. Earth Observation Correlation SAR-AIS 1. SAR Ships 2. SAR + AIS
4. Uncorrelated ships

8. Earth Observation
EO data provide a new “information” layer to the Maritime Picture
Satellites detect all vessels (both cooperative and non cooperative)

9. Examples of COSMO-SkyMed Potentiality
Spotlight-2 imaging mode; angle 30°
15 May :03 UTC,
Descending orbit, Right looking

10. FRONTEX Nautilus Demo (July – August 08)
Area of Interest (AOI) for satellite acquisitions

11. 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

12. 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

13. Caribbean Waters Services Caribbean Large area monitoring
in Near Real Time conditions with RADAR and Optical satellites
Surveillance of activities and maritime situation update
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

14. Caribbean Waters Large area monitoring
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

15. Caribbean Waters Open Ocean routes monitoring
Routine surveillance of routes in the Atlantic Ocean
Systematic wide swath SAR data acquired and made available to EUSC
Full reports made at EUSC

16. 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

17. Cargo Surveillance architecture
The inferred maritime picture from traffic and meteocean information, is delivered to:
(i) Coast Guards,
(ii) Shipowners,
(iii) On board

18. Sensitive Cargo Surveillance
Ground segment
On board segment

19. Sensitive Cargo Surveillance

20. 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

21. 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

23. 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 Centre
Infoterra
Telespazio
Thales Alenia Space
User Groups: Representative of the Main Users

24. 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)

25. Examples of COSMO-SkyMed Potentiality
Spotlight-2 imaging mode; angle 30°
15 May :03 UTC,
Descending orbit, Right looking

26. Earth Observation
The SAR image

27. On-Going Validation Activities
The SAR image and detected Ships

28. On-Going Validation Activities
The SAR image with AIS tracks and detected SHIPs

29. On-Going Validation Activities
Cargo Ship
MMSI Number
IMO Number
Length = 82 meters
Width = 13 meters
AIS tracks of ship with length less than 90 meters

30. 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.

31. 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)