Space based vessel detection – combining earth observation and ais for maritime surveillance

Space based vessel detection – Combining Earth Observation and AIS for Maritime surveillance

Rolf Skatteboe

President, Kongsberg Satellite Services

Seoul, May 15, 2012

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Outline

• KSAT in brief

• Satellite baser Maritime Situational Awareness

• SAR technology and application

• AIS (Automatic Identification System)

• KSAT Vessel detection service in support of activities in different areas

• Illegal fishing

• Oil spill detection

• Ice monitoring

• Norwegian Korean cooperation

• Concluding remarks


Kongsberg Satellite Services

KSAT is a service provider dedicated to satellite operation and utilization of satellite data


Kongsberg Satellite Services, KSAT

• Established in 1967

• Kongsberg Satellite Services since 2002

• World leading commercial satellite centre

• Providing products and services based on

polar orbiting satellites

• Round the clock

operations (24h/365d)


KSAT has two business areas


The KSAT polar Network

The KSAT mid-Latitude Network

KSAT Operation

TNOC, SvalSat and TEOS

Jan Mayen


KSAT’s Extended Polar and Mid-Latitude Network

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Tromsø; Operation Center 365/24/7

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KSAT clients World- wide

Network Operations

Center

SvalSat TrollSat Grimstad Tromsø

Client sites Partner sites

Dubai Hartebeestoek Singapore


• Operational Maritime Situational Awareness including Global Marine Monitoring

• Oil spill detection and environmental control (<30 minutes)

• Vessel Detection and identification

• Ice navigation and prediction

• Data fusion (Automatic Identification System – AIS and environmental data like wind and waves)

• Multi-Mission global near real time data access SAR and Optical

• Disaster monitoring

• Surveillance and monitoring

• MultiMission-MultiUser services

• Forest monitoring, Snow, Iceberg tracking…

• Global Data Acquisition

Earth Observation Services


Earth Observation Services

VESSEL DETECTION OIL SPILL DETECTION ANTI PIRACY

ICE NAVIGATION SATELLITE IMAGES ICEBERG TRACKING


• Vast ocean areas

• Approx. 7x mainland

• Increasing oil and gas activity

• Unregistred fishing (IUU)

• Increasing vessel traffic • Shipment of Russian oil

• Gas and LNG

• Transport of goods and chemicals

• Ecotourism

In vulnerable arctic environment

Weather; wind, darkness, cloud cover and fog

Norway and the High North


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• Active sensor

• Independent of daylight

• Sees through clouds and fog

• Large area coverage

• Excellent tool for detecting slicks, vessels and installations

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Why use radar from satellites for Marine Situational Awareness including to detect oil spills?


KSAT Service chain

SAR

Processing

Satellite acquisition, multiple satellites

VA

Processing

Automatic Identification

System (AIS) GIS -information Sea-State

End user

Operations centre

Analysis and Notification


Oil spill detection by analysis of SAR images

• Typical oil spill, black defined feature on the sea surface, a long tail

combined with ship (small white spot) at the end.

• The black colour is due to the SAR technology

and is not true colour.

• Ships marked by white circles.

Oil spill in Brazilian coastal water. Oil spill in the south of Norway.


Identification of source Combining satellite images with AIS -a powerful combination

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Oil spill outside the Norwegian coast,

ships in the area. Warning with

excact position, size and confidence

level is given.

Combined with AIS, tracked back, one of the ship

lanes closely corresponds with the potensial spill.

The vessel can easily be identified, and

authorities can decide on further action.


Identification of Source

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Oil spill from an oilrig detected from satellite where the image is overlaid with information

of pipelines and offshore installations to identify the most likely source (marked with

yellow in image to the right). The other bright dots are signatures of vessels

Combining satellite images with more information layers, installations and pipelines


Coordinated surveillance, satellite and airplane observation

An integrated system combining available surveillance means represents the

optimal and most cost efficient solution for environmental monitoring

Ordered satellite images may be used for planning of airplane activity


Key user groups

Coastal state authorities responsible for maritime surveillance

•Coastal administration

•Coast guard

•Pollution control

•Border control

•Navy

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Operating oil companies and oil industry associations

•Self monitoring

•Early warning

•Meeting national requirements

•Documenting clean operations


What makes KSAT different? Vendor-neutral availability guarantees user-friendly access and one-stop-shopping

What KSAT does;

- Order handling

- Planning

- Tasking

- Data acquisition

- Processing

- Analysing

- Dissemination

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Radarsat-1/ Radarsat-2 WorldView-1/WorldView-2/QuickBird

GeoEye QuickBird Kompsat-2 Envisat TerraSAR-X/Tandem-X

Cosmo Skymed 1,2,3,4

Unique infrastructure ensures fast access and delivery in near – real time


KSAT Multi mission concept secures coverage

Multimission SAR and

optical satellite data provide

recognised situation picture: Envisat, Radarsat, TerraSAR

Envisat/MERIS, DigitalGlobe

Copyright raw data

ESA, CSA/MDA, InfoTerra, DigitalGlobe

Data processing/analysis KSAT


Satellite Radar Alone is not enough


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AIS from Satellite – Norwegian Capability

Northern area and marine focus

Industrial development

Ministry of Trade and Industry and Norwegian Space Centre in the lead for AISSat-1.

European and transatlantic dimension

AISSat-2 awaiting launch. Third and larger

satellite in planning

Norways AISSat-1 Size does (not) matter - 20x20 cm


A Month of Winter or Summer

08/2011

01/2012


A More Equatorial Dimension


• Oil spill pollution

• Identification of source

• Risk assessment

• Fisheries control

• Illegal fishing

• Fishing pattern

• Effort estimation

• Safety

• Maritime traffic density

• Accident risk

• Compliance with traffic separation schemes

• Security

• Border control, illegal immigration, smuggling

• Piracy

• Non-reporting vessels

Vessel/Target Detection and Identification – a core application for:


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KSAT Vessel Detection Service

• Use of Satellite images for detecting vessels at sea

• Fisheries- monitoring and control

• Traffic safety

• Maritime security

• Methodology

• Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for detection

• Optical images for recognition

• Correlation with AIS, VMS and LRIT

• Key customer

• European Maritime Safety Agency

Ship detected by both

satellite SAR and AIS

Ship detected only by

satellite SAR


Checking for illegal fishing in the NE Atlantic


Two vessels at Bear Island – No AIS received

Compilation FFI


Fishing vessels in the Barents Sea

Compilation FFI

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/showallphotos.aspx?imo=8723270











Barents Sea monitoring; Radarsat-2 and AISSAT-1

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AISSat-1

RADARSAT-2© MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (2011)


MARISS: Barents Sea/Svalbard 24.10.2011


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Ice navigation


Ship routing in ice waters reduces fuel, emissions and risks

Planned route through the ice

6 hours Actual route around the ice

3 hours


Ship Routing in Ice

• Real time access to high resolution satellite data

• Saves time

• Easiest, simplest route can be identified

• Navigate around obstacles

• Saves money

• Less fuel consumed

• Less hull maintenance

• Less time in dry-dock and therefore potential increase in number of operating days per year.

• Reduce risk


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Climate change – opening new shipping lanes

September 2007

Nordvest passasjen åpen

(orange line)

Nordøst passasjen delvis

åpen (blue line).

• Growing concern

• Increasing transport

• Eco-tourism

• Search and Rescue?

• oil-spill preparedness?

Need for enhanced monitoring


Different demands for satellite monitoring and

surveillance

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Maritime Situational Awareness, including

OceanSurveillance from satellite –

vessels, ice and pollution

Norway first and is the world leader with civilian vessel and oil spill monitoring based on radar satellites.

Requires access to new European and Canadian satellite radar systems.

Integration of Satellite Radar and AIS a “winning team”.

Norwegian actors in the lead: Kongsberg Seatex, KSAT, Kongsberg Spacetec, Kongsberg Norcontrol

As well as FFI, NORUT, NERSC, NCA, met.no


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C-scope from Kongsber Norwegian Coastal Administration Vardø Vessel Traffic Services (VTS)

• Monitoring all ships in the

Norwegian Coastal Waters

• Information exchange with

Local Maritime Safety Agency

(MSA)

• Linked to all regional VTS

centers

The KONGSBERG C-Scope VTS System


Conclusions

• Satellite baser Maritime Situational Awareness

• Modern tool for large area surveillance and control

• Kongsberg capabilities are unique

• KSAT Vessel detection service is a core component for control of

• Illegal fishing

• Oil spill detection

• Ice monitoring

• The Norwegian-Korean cooperation is extensive

• Satellite operation

• Costal monitoring

• Maritime activity


Thank you for your attention!

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