Utilizing wide area maritime domain awareness (MDA) data to cue a remote surveillance system

Anthony W. Isenor; Richard Cross; Sean Webb; Anna-Liesa S. Lapinski

doi:10.1117/12.2028597

22 October 2013 Utilizing wide area maritime domain awareness (MDA) data to cue a remote surveillance system

Anthony W. Isenor, Richard Cross, Sean Webb, Anna-Liesa S. Lapinski

Proceedings Volume 8899, Emerging Technologies in Security and Defence; and Quantum Security II; and Unmanned Sensor Systems X; 889915 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2028597
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2013, Dresden, Germany

Abstract

Defence Research and Development Canada – Atlantic (DRDC Atlantic) is currently involved in research on the topic of northern Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA). One project, entitled Situational Information for Enabling Development of Northern Awareness (SEDNA), includes research on the exploitation of MDA data in northern areas. One aspect of this research is to utilize wide area MDA data to provide awareness to an unattended, land-based system. Wide area MDA is attained through the use of space-based AIS (SAIS) data, a data feed used by the Canadian Department of National Defence and supplied by the commercial provider exactEarth Ltd. The land-based surveillance system used is the remote northern system constructed within the DRDC Northern Watch Technology Demonstration Project. Northern Watch is a multi-year project intended to show state-of-the-art, unattended, surveillance capabilities in the Canadian north. The link between the SAIS and Northern Watch is provided by a research infrastructure that consists of an assembly of data sources, users, applications, and product management techniques that collectively support research in areas such as information management and MDA data exploitation. High-level descriptions of the systems are provided along with elaboration on the alerting algorithm, the notifications that would be sent to the Northern Watch southern command site, and the resulting actions that could be taken by the Northern Watch surveillance system.

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Anthony W. Isenor, Richard Cross, Sean Webb, and Anna-Liesa S. Lapinski "Utilizing wide area maritime domain awareness (MDA) data to cue a remote surveillance system", Proc. SPIE 8899, Emerging Technologies in Security and Defence; and Quantum Security II; and Unmanned Sensor Systems X, 889915 (22 October 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2028597

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