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Space-Based Global Maritime Surveillance. Part I: Satellite Technologies
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Maritime surveillance (MS) is crucial for search and rescue operations, fishery monitoring, pollution control, law enforcement, migration monitoring, and national security policies. Since the early days of seafaring, MS has been a critical task for providing security in human coexistence. Several generations of sensors providing detailed maritime information have become available for large offshore areas in real time: maritime radar sensors in the 1950s and the automatic identification system (AIS) in the 1990s among them. However, ground-based maritime radars and AIS data do not always provide a comprehensive and seamless coverage of the entire maritime space. Therefore, the exploitation of space-based sensor technologies installed on satellites orbiting around the Earth, such as satellite AIS data, synthetic aperture radar, optical sensors, and global navigation satellite systems reflectometry, becomes crucial for MS and to complement the existing terrestrial technologies. In the first part of this work, we provide an overview of the main available space-based sensors technologies and present the advantages and limitations of each technology in the scope of MS. The second part, related to artificial intelligence, signal processing and data fusion techniques, is provided in a companion paper, titled: "Space-based Global Maritime Surveillance. Part II: Artificial Intelligence and Data Fusion Techniques" [1].<br />This paper has been submitted to IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine
- Subjects :
- Signal Processing (eess.SP)
Pollution
Synthetic aperture radar
National security
Automatic Identification System
Computer science
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Aerospace Engineering
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FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Radar
Search and rescue
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business.industry
Law enforcement
Sensor fusion
Orbit
Space and Planetary Science
Systems engineering
Submarine pipeline
Satellite
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Data integration
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fc2ce784535c9150d33a76689ddf3aca