Full coverage, from inland to port, to open seas Coastal surveillance

Organisations such as coast guards and navies are responsible for vast expanses of water and have the need to know what goes on, where their assets are and how to best deploy them. This requires real-time information, as well as intelligence from a variety of sources, that is presented in a clear way for effective decision making.

Coastal surveillance covers a very broad range of responsibilities: law enforcement, safety and security. This calls for a flexible toolbox of solutions that can be configured to match any set of requirements. With extensive experience in topics such as surveillance, target tracking and C4I at national scales, Saab is well equipped to provide a suitable solution for your needs.

Saab provides an integrated platform to support coastal monitoring activities around the world in their daily operations. This includes sea and lower airspace surveillance, monitoring of vessel behaviour, management of incidents, and communications. The system can use mobile surveillance units and the sensors on board of own assets to maximize surveillance coverage.

Information exchange with neighbouring systems greatly extends the reach of the system, allowing suspect contacts to be picked up earlier. In addition, the system provides tools to find trends in historic data, providing much needed information to adjust strategies and policies.

Features

Interconnection that adds value

The maritime transport world can be seen as four separate zones, each centred around a port:

The port itself where most of the economic activity takes place, served by Port Management, Terminal Operations and Vessel Traffic Services systems.
The area 12 nautical miles out of the coast on one side of the port and inland waterways on the other side, where Vessel Traffic Services systems play an important role.
Areas covered by Coastal Surveillance Systems.
International waters.

Facilities in these zones support each other. Saab VTS systems and platform protection systems often contribute to coastal surveillance systems, just as port management and VTS systems are very much interconnected.

A port management system often embraces multiple ports. Direct data exchange with management systems at other ports helps to streamline vessel visits by providing the right information at the right time.

Smart, cost-effective design

Saab’s flexible architecture allows separate systems to share the same infrastructure. National AIS networks deliver ship information to port authorities, coast guards and waterway authorities at the same time.

Radar stations can be shared among several users, with individual processing systems to fulfil different tracking needs if required.

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Full coverage, from inland to port, to open seas Coastal surveillance

Features

Interconnection that adds value

Smart, cost-effective design

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