Toronto, September 2010: The study, supported by the Public Security Technical Program (PSTP), will examine persistent surveillance capabilities in Maritime, Great Lakes, and St. Lawrence Seaway (GLSLS) border regions, and Canada’s preparedness to counter the small vessel threat. It will employ a systematic and interdisciplinary, qualitative analysis to better understand the current and arising capability gaps relating to port-based (GLSLS and maritime) and coastline/shoreline persistent small vessel surveillance, and evaluate potential technological approaches that will address these gaps.
This will provide a roadmap to designing a Surveillance, Intelligence and Interdiction (SII) solution aimed at countering asymmetric threats and improving border management in the maritime and GLSLS inshore regions. This will be achieved by identifying the most suitable and complementary technologies for identification and tracking of anomalous targets and target behaviour, and a multi-sensor information fusion approach, which will allow for persistent surveillance and the accurate, robust and timely identification of small vessels – compliant and non-compliant.
Consortium Partners:
Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) – (Federal Lead and Project Champion)
A.U.G. Signals Ltd.
Blue Force Global Special Services Group Ltd.
CFN Consultants
AKW Global Enterprises
For more information, please contact Tatyana Litvak, the Project Manager.