Mobile Data Fusion for Maritime Surveillance

Abstract

Maritime surveillance operations are needed worldwide to monitor and reassure safety and security across the seas. Numerous devices are employed in order to provide situational awareness of the vast sea. Lots of different technologies are involved to provide multiple views and clarify maritime conditions at a given time and place, however making interoperability a real challenge. The task is even more tedious as there is a key request to provide a single window view for multiple even all possible inputs. In this work we present an integrated mobile fusion solution for multiple tracking and monitoring sensors (e.g. low weight/high performance radar, position transmission mechanisms and electro-optic/systems and hyper-spectral sensors) to assist the detection and early identification and tracking of moving targets (e.g. with moving target indication and data fusion/correlation capabilities), as well as methods for obstacle detection and maritime surveillance. This innovative single window mobile platform presents high efficiency, low operational costs profiles and contributes to standardization in construction as it utilizes typical tracking infrastructure and standard smartphones and tablets.