SAGRES

Services Activations for GRowing Eurosur's Success

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'Services Activations For Growing Eurosur's Success” in response to topic SPA.2012.1.1-01 entitled “Testing and validating the intelligence-driven and high time-critical CONOPS”. The context of EC’s call to the present study is aimed at: -the validation of the services pointed out by FRONTEX in the specification of Concept of Operations (CONOPS) -the development of a cost-effective analysis -the definition of the bases to deploy the fully-operational versions. SAGRES will put into service the main outcomes of EO research to support the operational deployment of the high-time critical CONOPS component through the EUROSUR network. As described in the proposal, the reference scenarios are: 1.Tracking vessels on the high seas with two main components: a.Monitoring of a specific third country port. b.Tracking the identified vessel over high seas. 2.Punctual monitoring of third-country port and coasts with one component: a.Monitoring of specific ports and stretches of third country coasts. The pre-operational services will be delivered to Frontex via EUSC and EMSA. The principle of “use, comment, upgrade, use” applies, which will result in a cyclic development of five service versions during the timeline of the project. The last one will base the design of the fully operational service that would be deployed in the period of 2014-2015. For such purpose, engineering tasks shall be applied to the cyclic feedback received from the user community so that the specifications are delivered at the end of current project.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

There are many tools that Europe can use to address security challenges. The Copernicus programme's services, for which an EU-funded project has prepared the ground, will significantly enhance its information-gathering capabilities in border surveillance.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Over the course of two decades, the European Commission, universities and the space industry have been jointly working on preparatory research and development for the Copernicus programme. The aim of these significant investments was the establishment of a European capacity for Earth observation (EO).

One of the most recent research projects focused on further development of the Copernicus programme was SAGRES (Services activations for growing Eurosur's success). This EU-funded project was designed to deliver a set of maritime surveillance services defined by the user community.

These services have been defined by Frontex, the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), the European Union Satellite Centre (EU SatCen), the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Space Agency (ESA) and CONOPS.

Generated by processing EO imagery and collaborative data streams, the services will track ships over the high seas. In operation, they should allow tracking vessels over hundreds of kilometres and issue an alarm if 'abnormal behaviour' is detected.

The SAGRES team supported the pre-operational tests as well as deployment of critical CONOPS components through Eurosur. This information exchange framework supports the management of Europe's external borders and helps Member States to prevent loss of migrants' lives at sea.

Specifically, SAGRES partners tested and validated the technology available for monitoring third country coasts that have been identified as regular departure points for migrant boats. The tools and data resources that were put in operation overlapped what currently existed.

The SAGRES project demonstrated a new dimension of EO exploitation by merging received data with a wide range of ancillary data streams. It is expected to provide a direct link between activated Copernicus services and those needed by authorities in charge of monitoring European maritime borders.