Maritime surveillance and rescue applications
The Public Procurement of Innovation initiative for Maritime surveillance and rescue applications refers to the pre-commercial procurement of R&D services for the development of an application that, based on Artificial Intelligence algorithms, performs the tasks of detection, identification and classification of vessels from satellite images and provides a decision support system in real time.
Need raised by a Public Administration
The range of activities related to maritime surveillance includes a large number of tasks, including maritime traffic control, detection of illegal activities, monitoring of areas of interest, identification and tracking of vessels, and all those related to maritime rescue.
Using the information available from Earth observation satellites to perform such surveillance is an opportunity that cannot be missed. In addition, artificial intelligence-based techniques, thanks to their agility in automating repetitive activities and the ease of recognizing predefined patterns, can facilitate maritime surveillance tasks and associated decision making.
Public administration user
The technological challenge raised
The main challenge of this activity is the creation of an Information System that integrates high and very high resolution satellite information provided by SAR satellites and/or V/IR optical means, and that from the development of Artificial Intelligence algorithms, facilitates the tasks of detection, identification and classification of vessels, and the associated decision making, in near real time.
The system must integrate data from the AIS (Automatic Identification System) maritime system, as well as other open source data, such as those provided free of charge by the Copernicus system, the atmospheric service (AEMET, EUMETSAT), the European Marine Observation and data Nerwork (EOMDnet), or those provided by Puertos del Estado.
The fusion of the information on the detected, identified and classified element together with other types of information (geolocation, ongoing missions, etc.) will contextualize and facilitate different tasks carried out in the maritime environment.
Number of file: CPP 11/2023 AB (DG/OCIE)
The highlights of the initiative Maritime surveillance and rescue applications, are as follows:
- Formalization of contract- has been published in the Platform for Recruitment of Public Sector conclusion of contracts the PPI of Maritime Surveillance and rescue - [April 12th, 2024]
- Award- has been published in the Platform for Recruitment of Public Sector awarding of contracts the PPI of Maritime Surveillance and rescue - [April 1st, 2024]
- Tender- Published in the platform for Public Sector Procurement bidding of the Pre-Commercial Public Purchase : CPP tenders- [November 12th, 2023]
- Report of findings of the PCM- has been published in the Platform for Recruitment of the Public Sector report of the conclusions of the preparatory consultation of the market to know the status of the development of technology in the Area of earth observation satellite systems in the framework of the PRTR: Report of findings of the PCM- [June 16th, 2023]
- Day of submission of the PCM- Online format, day of submission of the preparatory consultation of the market : Agenda and presentations of the day- [January 19th, 2023]
- Convening of the preparatory consultation of the market- has been published in the Platform for Recruitment of the Public Sector (PLACSP), the resolution signed by the Director General of the centre for technological development and innovation (CDTI), E.P.E. of the convening of the preparatory consultation of the market (CPM) to determine the level of development of technology in the Area of earth observation satellite systems in the framework of the PRTR: Resolution of the PCM in the field of earth observation satellite- [December 23th, 2022]
This initiative is funded with funding from of Mechanism for the recovery and resilience.
