MEDUSA Quantitative Airborne Pollution Surveillance: Technology and Recent Results Presented by : Dr. Theo Hengstermann Business Development & Sales Optimare Systems GmbH
Overview • Company Introduction • Airborne Pollution Surveillance • Scenarios • Requirements for Airborne Pollution Surveillance • Principal Modes of Operation • Mission System • Sensor Configurations • Examples from the Operation • Information Dissemination • OctoPod – The All-in-One Airborne Surveillance Solution • References
OPTIMARE System GmbH ➢ Founded in 1992 ➢ Turn-key solutions for environmental monitoring ➢ 100% affiliated company of Aerodata Group in 2013 Fischkai 1 27572 Bremerhaven Germany 3
OPTIMARE Surveillance Products & Services Optimare‘s surveillance products & services are distributed over two branches: ▪ Airborne Systems ▪ Marine Systems
Typical Scenarios Accidental Discharges Illegal Discharges from Ship Traffic Discharges from Offshore Installations
Requirements for Airborne Surveillance This is the matter we are looking into …
Principal modes of operation Close-Range Analysis Thickness, oil type, spatial properties Coverage: 2 x Altitude Far-Range Surveillance Coverage: ca. 40 NM @ 3.000ft System integration makes use of IR/UV VIS ▪ Complementarity ▪ Redundancy SLAR MWR LFS
Airborne oil spill surveillance Mission Management Pre-flight In-flight Post-flight • Mission planning • Multi-sensor system • Report creation • Use of satellite data • Sensor data fusion • Archiving • Transfer of flight plan • Coms • Data Dissemination to FMS • Data link • Web GIS • Use of ext. AIS data • Tactical map • Mission preparation • Report creation • Data Dissemination
Far Range Surveillance Side-Looking Airborne Radar (SLAR) OPTIMARE SLAR ▪ Imaging radar for improved awareness ▪ Detection of spills, wakes etc. ▪ All-weather / day & night ▪ Beam shape optimized for maritime surveillance ▪ Lightweight & ultra-flat antennas ▪ Superior performance
Far Range Surveillance Side-Looking Airborne Radar (SLAR) SLAR data
Far Range Surveillance Side-looking Airborne Radar (SLAR) SLAR data
Close-Range Analysis IR/UV Line Scanning MWR-P LFS-P IR/UV VIS OPTIMARE IR/UV Line Scanner ▪ Day and night spill detection ▪ Mapping of relative oil layer thickness ▪ IR/UV Composite Imaging for improved awareness
Close-Range Analysis VIS Line Scanning VIS image of an MWR-P LFS-P oil film found during IR/UV routine operation VIS OPTIMARE VIS Line Scanner ▪ Scene documentation ▪ “More standardised” use of oil appearance codes due to Bonn Agreement Oil defined observation geometry Appearance Code (BOAC)
Close-Range Analysis Microwave Radiometry OPTIMARE Microwave Radiometer MWR-P ▪ Day and night / all-weather spill detection ▪ Thickness measurement (0.05mm .. 3mm) MWR-P LFS-P ▪ Volume calculation IR/UV ▪ Used to locate and analyse hot spots of oil VIS spills
Close-Range Analysis Laser Fluorosensing OPTIMARE Laser Fluorosensor LFS-P ▪ Day and night pollution type classification MWR-P LFS-P IR/UV VIS IR LFS ▪ Rough classification (poll. / no poll.) ▪ Fine classification (type of crude / refined oil) IR and LFS data of an oil spill
Scene Analysis Oil Spill Scene Analysis System (OSSAS) Feature extraction through automatic image segmentation for determination of properties: ▪ Area ▪ IR LFS Center position ▪ Orientation ▪ Length x width SASEMAR (Spain) CN-235 ▪ Drift / Spreading Portuguese Airforce C-295
Information Dissemination C OMMUNICATION N ETWORK • MBR - H IGH - SPEED AND HIGH CAPACITY MICROWAVE DIGITAL RADIO LINK • 15 M BIT • R ANGE 70 NM @ 3,000 FT Ground Control Center • S ATELLITE LINK Ships Oil Rigs Mobile Ground Stations
Information Dissemination • REAL TIME DATA TRANSMISSION • QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION • GEOREFERENCED DATA / GIS • EFFECTIVE PLATFORM FOR THE DECISION MAKERS • DEFENDABLE DATA
Information Dissemination
OctoPod Missions ▪ Airborne Maritime Surveillance ▪ Oil Spill Surveillance ▪ Search & Rescue ▪ Airborne Land Surveillance LFS SLAR MWR-P MWR-P LFS-P LFS-P Patrol Radar IR/UV IR/UV VIS VIS EO/IR Direction Finder
OctoPod Core Features IR LFS ▪ Eight core functionalities based on eight selected sensors ▪ Supports more than 20 different mission tasks ▪ Belly-Mounted ▪ Low effort for aircraft modification & certification ▪ Low impact on the aircraft’s cabin ▪ Multi-Platform ▪ Modular ▪ Individually configurable from subset to full configuration ▪ Removable ▪ Low effort for aircraft reconfiguration ▪ Fully Integrated full mission system integration Launched at Paris Air Show 2015
References Major airborne projects
References Major airborne projects
References Major airborne projects CN235 - Spain C295 - Portugal C295 - Oman
Summary SLAR MWR-P MWR-P LFS-P LFS-P IR/UV IR/UV VIS VIS
Thank you! Questions? For further information please contact us: theo.hengstermann@optimare.de
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