The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) will equip three Dornier 228 maritime patrol aircraft with the SSC Maritime Surveillance System. The planes are operated by the Indian Coast Guard Aviation and are part of a fleet of 24 Dornier aircraft. The planes are produced by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL).
Indian Coast Guard is planning to enhance its surface and aerial surveillance capability for monitoring oil spills and other potentially illegal activities in the Exclusive Economic Zone, which currently extends over 2 million square kilometres. It is also responsible for protecting a coastline of 7500 kilometres including pollution prevention and search and rescue.
“The Indian Coast Guard Aviation is celebrating their 25th anniversary on 22 May 2007 and we are very happy that with the conclusion of an installation agreement with HAL we will be able to provide the Indian Coast Guard with powerful tools for their aerial surveillance mission. The systems will include a number of new and improved features from our latest generation of the system to provide the operator with a good overview of the area under surveillance”, says Mr. Olov Fäst, Manager of the Airborne Systems Divison of SSC.
The SSC Maritime Surveillance System has been installed in a variety of aircraft in countries all around the world, for example Sweden, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Greece, USA and Canada.
For further information please contact
Mr. Olov Fäst, tel. +46 8 627 62 08
or e-mail olov.fast@ssc.se
Facts
The SSC Maritime Surveillance system for the Indian Coast Guard is a fully integrated system including SLAR (Side-Looking Airborne Radar), IR/UV (Infrared/ Ultraviolet) scanner, still and video cameras.
Information from the sensors will be accessible from the operator console. It is displayed in real time and is tightly integrated with a tactical map. The map will contain the current aircraft position and time marks on the flight track. The map image has a large number of operator selectable overlays such as background information (territorial borders, economic zone borders, protected areas etc.), geocorrected overlays from SLAR, IR/UV, observation and target notes as well as notes on location of captured images from cameras.
This gives the right support to the operator in every situa-tion. All information from the mission is saved and can be compiled in mission reports and/or sent on to ground station and other units.
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