An advanced surveillance platform to improve the EURopean Multi Authority BordeR Security efficiency and cooperation.
Security risks and threats in the maritime domain are becoming increasingly more complex day by day. Within the EU there have been significant increases in irregular migration flows and human trafficking and smuggling but also of other illegal activities, such as drugs and arms trafficking and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, and the challenge becomes even bigger. There is increased interest in assessing the viability of multi-authority cooperation in (especially high altitude) sensing and capability advancement for enhanced wide area surveillance of land, air, and sea borders.
EURMARS’s ground-breaking vision is to expand the common risk assessment practices currently deployed by authorities to enable the development and evaluation of a secure multitasking surveillance platform that improves sensing capabilities for a wide range of security risks and threats in wider border areas. As part of the EURMARS framework, the various existing and future systems for maritime surveillance, e.g. by clustering high altitude platforms technology, satellite imagery, UxVs and ground-based sensors will be integrated, to allow for the collaborative operation and the provision of the sensing results to related authorities. The open architecture will build on the lessons learnt of previous initiatives, assimilate the knowledge of the stakeholders and their practice on CISE and other relevant systems, exploit the latest AI, risk assessment and visualization innovations, and undergo extensive technical and user acceptance tests and ethical and legal impact assessments.
Goals
- Improve border authority surveillance capabilities by enhancing critical quality characteristics of aerial and ground-based sensor platforms.
- Enhance security and risk assessment performance of surveillance solutions.
- Platform development for multiauthority missions at maritime/coastal borders.
- Benchmark platform performance and ensure acceptability by stakeholders.
Facts
- Project start: 1.10.2022
- Project duration (in months): 36
- Budget: 7M €
- Funding: Horizon Europe
- Project partners: European Dynamics Luxembourg SA, Thales Alenia Space, University of Reading, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Trilateral, Space SI Slovenian Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies, Bulgarian Defence Institute “Professor Tsvetan Lazarov, European Union Satellite Centre, GeoSystems Hellas, Hardware and Software Engineering, SKYLTD, Bulgarian Ministry of Interior, Border Guards and CIS Directorate, Cyprus Coast Guard, Albania General Maritime Directorate, General Inspectorate of Romanian Border Police, UK Home Office
- Project website: https://eurmars-project.eu/
