MARISA

Maritime Integrated Surveillance Awareness

Abstract

Combating irregular migration, human smuggling, terrorism at sea, piracy, as well as arms and drug trafficking has become a high priority on Europe’s security agenda. Securing the sea requires a day-to-day collaboration activities among European actors of maritime surveillance, Member States’ administrations and European agencies principally, and a significant number of initiatives are being taken at EU level to address this challenge. The large amount of ‘raw data’ available today are not usable by systems supporting maritime security since they are not accessible at the same time and, often, they are not interoperable. Therefore, the overarching goal of MARISA project is to provide the security communities operating at sea with a data fusion toolkit, which makes available a suite of methods, techniques and modules to correlate and fuse various heterogeneous and homogeneous data and information from different sources, including Internet and social networks, with the aim to improve information exchange, situational awareness, decision-making and reaction capabilities. The proposed solution will provide mechanisms to get insights from any big data source, perform analysis of a variety of data based on geographical and spatial representation, use techniques to search for typical and new patterns that identify possible connections between events, explore predictive analysis models to represent the effect of relationships of observed object at sea. Enterprise and ad-hoc reporting and services, within the CISE context, will be provided to support users and operational systems in their daily activities, as well as presentation tools for navigating and visualizing results of data fusion processing. The involvement of 5 practitioners as full partners will allow on the one hand to align innovation to user needs, on the other hand to validate the toolkit through a number of trials addressing cross country/cross domain applications.

Project details

Unibo Team Leader: Nadia Pinardi

Unibo involved Department/s:
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Augusto Righi"

Coordinator:
Leonardo Spa(Italy)

Other Participants:
Aster Spa (Italy)
Inov Inesc Inovacao - Instituto De Novas Tecnologias (Portugal)
Laurea Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy (Finland)
Airbus Ds Sas (France)
Toulon Var Technologies (France)
Fraunhofer Ipa (Germany)
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna (Italy)
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa (Italy)
Luciad Nv (Belgium)
Cinav Research Center-Ministerio Da Defesa Nacional (Portugal)
Marina Militare-Ministero Della Difesa (Italy)
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Tno (Netherlands)
Nederlandse Kustwacht (Netherlands)
Gmv Aerospace And Defence Sau (Spain)
Ministerio Del Interior (Spain)
Satways - Proionta Kai Ypiresies Tilematikis Diktyakon Kai Tilepikinoniakon Efarmogon Etairia Periorismenis Efthinis Epe (Greece)
Nato Science And Technology Organisation (Belgium)
Ministry Of National Defence, Greece (Greece)
Inovaworks II Command and Control, Lda (Portugal)
PLATH GmbH (Germany)
E-Geos Spa (Italy)

Total Eu Contribution: Euro (EUR) 7.997.492,50
Project Duration in months: 30
Start Date: 01/05/2017
End Date: 31/10/2019

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Reduced inequalities This project contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 740698 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 740698