Authorities need to protect interests in Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), territorial waters, rivers and lakes against resource plundering, smuggling, illegal immigration, piracy, and terrorism. They also need to tackle the challenges of large and unrestricted navigational areas, small and non-cooperative objects taking advantage of dense maritime activity to conceal their actions, the need for increased detection notice, interactions with multiple resources and agencies, and complex legal aspects. Thales’s integrated solutions, spanning from detection to response, include the following key capabilities to support maritime surveillance:
- Comprehensive Maritime Operational Picture based on networks of sensor sites and centres (local, regional…)
- Full coverage with wide choice of platforms (coastal, airborne, satellite…) depending on operational requirements
- Correlation with intelligence data
- Abnormal behaviour detection to support operators
- Integration of assets (patrol boats, helicopters, aircrafts…)
- Improved resource allocation for greater efficiency and cost savings