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MARISA MARitime Integrated Surveillance Awareness

4th MARISA Newsletter

February 2020

MARISA End User contributions play essential role in MARISA Trials

The MARISA End-User Community shared with the consortium the capability gaps for future enhanced

Maritime Integrated Surveillance Awareness system in the first year

of the MARISA Project. Furthermore, the MARISA End-User Community hosted and co-organised the

MARISA Phase-1 and Phase-2 Trials.

The project’s iterative approach with two trial periods, allowed MARISA

End-User Community to detail and refine with the consortium their

capability requirements. The MARISA End-User Community experts detailed relevant operational

scenarios for the MARISA Trials for the testing and validation of the

MARISA Toolkit.

MARISA cross border Iberian Trial with Spanish Guardia Civil and Portuguese Navy

The Iberian Sea operational trial Phase

2 took place successfully on 30th September - 3rd October 2019. Two countries were involved, hosted by the

Guardia Civil in Spain and by Marinha in Portugal. The trial was supported by

GMV, INOV & Inovaworks. Two configurations of the MARISA

toolkit have been used in this trial: one MARISA node at Portuguese Navy

Maritime Operations Centre (MOC) in Lisbon and the other node at Guardia

Civil National Coordination Centre (NCC) in Madrid. Both MARISA nodes were connected with its respective

EUCISE nodes and they shared maritime information through the

EUCISE network. [Read more]

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MARISA North Sea Trial in back up facility of Netherlands Coast Guard

The MARISA North Sea operational trial for Phase 2 organized by TNO and hosted by the Netherlands Coastguard (NLCG) took place

successfully in Den Helder, The Netherlands on 2nd and 3rd of October 2019.

The NLCG organised a dedicated training exercise “MARISA Alert” in the maritime

security and safety domain coinciding with the trial involving NLCG operational assets with

relevant scenarios. A MARISA Toolkit configuration was deployed in the NLCG operational back up facility in Den Helder.

[Read more]

MARISA Aegean Sea Trial performed by Hellenic Navy

The Aegean Sea Trial took

place in November 2019 at the Hellenic Navy General Staff and

at the Hellenic Navy’s Maritime Operations Center. The aim of this second set of trials was to

make use of the MARISA Toolkit for enhanced maritime

situational awareness using sensor data provided by the Hellenic Navy via their National

EUCISE node.

There were many scenarios demonstrated such as those involving maritime safety,

irregular immigration, smuggling and suspicious behaviours in the Aegean Sea. A sub-set of services of the MARISA Toolkit were used according to the user’s requirements. The operators

were satisfied with the results of the trial and made use of the MARISA toolkit in their daily duties. [Read more]

MARISA cross border Ionian Sea Trial with Hellenic Navy and Italian Navy

The 2nd MARISA Ionian Sea trial took place on 26th, 27th, 28th of November 2019 to

validate the final implementation of the MARISA Toolkit services. The Hellenic Navy (HMOD)

and the Italian Navy (ITN) hosted the trial and validated the MARISA Toolkit Services in

cross-order surveillance scenarios and cooperation related to the irregular immigration,

smuggling, maritime security and safety, common situation awareness and sharing of

information. The trial has been leaded by Leonardo with the collaboration of Satways.

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Two interconnected

MARISA Toolkits have

been set-up, one in

Italy and one in Greece.

The MARISA Toolkits

interfaced the Legacy

Systems of ITN and

HMOD (via the National

EUCISE Node) receiving

live AIS in the area

from ITN Coastal

Surveillance stations

and HMOD sensors.

Furthermore, various

heterogeneous data

(historic AIS, satellite, OSINT, ocean and meteo) were integrated and fused to demonstrate

the numerous services of the toolkit for object assessment, behaviour analysis, prediction of

future states, common situation awareness and sharing of data. [Read more]

3rd MARISA Workshop, 11th December 2019 in Taranto Italy

The 3rd MARISA workshop was

held at Leonardo premises in Taranto (Italy), on 11th

December 2019. Besides the MARISA practitioners, several end users and national

authorities participated to the workshop activities.

The main objective was to present the final version of the MARISA toolkit and the results of

the second and final campaign of MARISA operational trials.

A discussion was held on how the exploitation of the MARISA

services could contribute to:

improve and extend maritime border situational awareness, improve operational support to Search and Rescue activities, reduce death at sea while contrasting irregular immigration and cross border crime.

The status of the exploitation and standardization activities was also presented and the

stakeholders expressed their ideas about the future use of the MARISA toolkit. [Read more]

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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation

program under Grant Agreement No 740698