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The Agenda for the upcoming FG Meeting on Technology Convergence on September 14, 2010 in Paris is now published.
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HIDE – Homeland Security, Biometric Identification & Personal Detection Ethics
HIDE FP7 Projects Dynamic Database:
| HIDE Topics | Technology Convergence, System Interoperability |
| Name | Autonomous maritime surveillance system |
| Acronym | AMASS |
| Area | in wide maritime areas through active and passive means |
| Start Date | 2008-03-01 |
| Duration | 42 months |
| Status | Execution |
| Description | The Autonomous Maritime Surveillance System (AMASS) will be for the observation and security of wide critical maritime areas in order to reduce actual and potential illegal immigration and the trafficking of drugs, weapons and illicit substances. The surveillance system will consist of autonomous, unmanned surveillance buoys with active and passive sensors, the key sensors being un-cooled thermal imagers connected as a network with wideband radio. Further sensors will include hydrophone arrays and possibly other sensors e.g. CCD camera. A sophisticated data fusion process will enable the transmission of relevant information. Alarms from the system will be displayed on a map system in blue border surveillance command centres providing information on location and direction. It will also be possible for the operator to switch directly to a video stream to view the detected image. AMASS will be a capability for integrated blue border surveillance. |
| Coordinator | CARL ZEISS OPTRONICS GMBH,CARL-ZEISS-STRASSE 22,GERMANY |
| Contact | ANDERSON, Thomas (Mr) (Contact ) |
| Tel / Fax | +49-7364-202833 / +49-7364-203277 |
| URL | http://www.AMASS-project.eu/ |
| partners | FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V (GERMANY),HSF SPOL. S R.O. SOKOLOV (CZECH REPUBLIC),IQ WIRELESS GMBH (GERMANY),ARMED FORCES MALTA (MALTA),FUGRO OCEANOR AS (NORWAY),OSRODEK BADAWCZO-ROZWOJOWY CENTRUM TECHNIKI MORSKIEJ (POLAND),INSTITUTO CANARIO DE CIENCIAS MARINAS (SPAIN),UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA. (SPAIN) |