Marine surveillance using spaceborne SAR in MASS

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Marine surveillance using space-borne SAR in MASS

• Ole Morten Olsen
• MASS workshop
• ESTEC, Noordwijk, 17.02.2002

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Overview of presentation

• Company information
• Selected product and service areas
• Marine surveillance
• Description of services
• Benefits participating in MASS

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Your long term partner in Space

• Kongsberg Spacetec (KSPT) are Norways no. 1
  space company, with more than 15 years in EO
  business
• Stable and highly skilled staff, providing
  lifetime commitment to products and support
• Innovative and reliable solutions, based on
  state of the art technologies
• Turn key focus, taking full responsibility to
  become your single source supplier

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Kongsberg Gruppen ASA
Kongsberg Spacetec AS Operating revenues 5.296
MNOK Number of employees 3.800
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Selected KSPT product areas

• MEOS
• Station Control System for monitoring and control
• Satellite instrument processors
• SAR satellites
• Meteorological satellites
• Applications - value added processing
• SAR products for marine surveillance
• Meteorological products for weather forecasting

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MEOS Overview
KONGSBERG SPACETEC AS
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SAR Processors

• KSPT can provide processors for JERS, ERS, RSAT,
  ENVISAT and ALOS PALSAR
• Processing of stripline products based on the
  EETF algorithm developed by NDRE
• ScanSAR processing based on the Specan algorithm.
• Very fast processing and excellent phase
  preservation properties

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Applications

• Marine Surveillance
• Wind Extraction
• Ship Detection
• Eddie/Current Detection
• Oil Spill Monitoring
• Ice Flow/Edge Monitoring

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Services provided through MASS

• For the MASS demonstration we have selected a
  subset of
• the services which are planned or already
  supported by
• the KSPT systems
• Processing of basic SAR products
• Ship detection from SAR products
• Oil spill detection from SAR products

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Marine surveillance

• Different countries and organizations have
  varying mandates
• associated with ship and oil spill detection
• Search rescue,
• Monitoring of fishing activities
• Shipping regulation
• Pollution control

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Why using SAR data

• Cost effective
• SAR independent of
• Weather
• Clouds
• Atmospheric conditions
• Light conditions

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Service schema
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SAR processing

• The SAR processing services provides basic
  processing of
• standard SAR products with focus on the ESA
  missions
• ERS-1/2
• ENVISAT
• Formats
• Input formats are standard formatted ERS RAW CEOS
  and ENVISAT Level 0 products
• Output formats are standard formatted ERS CEOS
  and ENVISAT Level 1b products

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Ship detection

• Input
• ENVISAT ASA_WSM_1P (for the demo period)
• Output
• Ship target report containing (via email/ftp)
• Date and time of observation
• Geographical location of identified ship targets
• The input data may either be provided by the
  end-user by ftp,
• or selected from the service providers local
  archive by specifying
• area of interest and time period

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Oil spill detection

• Input
• ENVISAT ASA_WSM_1P (for the demo period)
• Output
• Oil spill report containing (via email/ftp)
• Date and time of observation
• Geographical location of identified oil spills
• Size
• The input data may either be provided by the
  end-user by ftp,
• or selected from the service providers local
  archive by specifying
• area of interest and time period

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Combined services

• Automatic chaining of SAR processing and
  detection services
• No combined ship detection and oil spill
  detection product, but
• Possible to order both ship detection and oil
  spill detection product from the same SAR
  products
• By overlaying the information from the ship
  detection and oil spill detection services, ships
  responsible for oil spills may be identified

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Identified customers

• National Coastguards
• Polution autorities
• Enviromental Consultancy
• Oil Industry
• Commercial and Governmental Monitoring of Fishing
  Wessels

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Benefits participating in MASS

• Important benefits for our company
• Demonstrating that our products are suitable for
  integration in an end-to-end Web service
• Demonstrating for the end-users a set of EO
  services based on spaceborne SAR
• Possibility to integrate EO products and
  geo-data from different providers
• Distribute information about our products and
  services to new customers