Earth Observation Maritime Surveillance System

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and medium (MR) and very high (VHR) resolution optical satellite images are valuable sources of information for maritime situational awareness. This paper presents the Earth Observation Maritime Surveillance System (EO-MARISS), an integrated processing framework of remote sensing satellite data developed at DLR’s Maritime Safety and Security Lab Neustrelitz to support sea monitoring tasks. The system is currently developed for operational use at DLR’s Ground Station Neustrelitz to support service provider like AIRBUS or EUSI and processes image data from different satellite missions received directly at the ground station or provided by a network of ground stations and service providers.