Objectives:
Italian Navy and Coast Guard, are involved in monitoring and control operations on open sea and specific marine areas, and in search and rescue purposes (e.g. people smuggling between Libyan and Italian coasts). Merchant ship companies, leisure boat users and the related Insurance and Assistance Companies want to perform:
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- Better management of risks related to navigation;
- Reduction of navigation incidents;
- Better monitoring of pollution caused by possible oil spill events.
IMONA Platform leverages on the integration of Satellite Assets (EO, GNSS and SATCOM) with ICT technologies (e.g. Web Services, smartphones, GIS, 3G, Bluetooth, etc…) and services (e.g. AIS, Meteo data, etc…) to augment the maritime situation awareness of the Users, providing them with the following secure and easily accessible services.
Features
The User needs targeted by SIMONA can be grouped in the following four macro areas:
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- Open Sea Control Authorities (Italian Navy and Italian Coastguard);
- Coastal Control Authorities (Italian Coast Guard);
- Mercantile Transport Companies (d’Amico International Shipping (IT);
- Insurance Companies and related customers (GB Sapri and insured leisure boat users (IT))
System architecture
SIMONA Platform is able to fuse and correlate data from different sources (Satellite Assets downstream, AIS, Meteo/Oceanographic, position reporting, crowd-sourcing, other), and to generate value-added information to provide to the Users through Web Services, smartphone Apps and adapters to legacy systems.
Hereafter some concept views of the services realized implementing this approach:
Benefits
EO, GNSS, SATCOM are integrated for support, report, communication.
Current Status
Project ended successfully in november 2017. Feedbacks have been collected and analysed.
Official link to the project: https://business.esa.int/projects/simona
