Description The only comprehensive Asian seaport security conference in 2012! The security of port facilities and ships is of utmost importance, especially with the global threat of terrorism. Incidents such as the Mumbai attacks remain fresh on the minds of everyone, ensuring that port security remains at the forefront of port operators and authorities’ concerns. [...]
Continue Reading →Drugs, arms and people smuggling. Stowaways. Vandalism. Opportunistic theft. There is an abundance of critical security threats that you face on a daily basis. Understanding how to adapt your security strategy to identify and tackle breaches is crucial to your operational security. http://maritime-crime.com/
Continue Reading →Event Description Asia’s Largest Maritime Event Celebrates its 30th Anniversary with New Benchmark The Best and Unique B2B Platform for the International Maritime Industry Official Event Website: http://www.marintecchina.com/
Continue Reading →Description Clarion Events is proud to announce the launch of its inaugural Maritime Security & Surveillance conference in the UAE. Maritime Security & Surveillance will be a high-profile conference designed to address the region’s most pressing issues around developing strategies to maximise coastal security, combat piracy and other crimes at sea, enhance Maritime Domain Awareness [...]
Continue Reading →As satellite technology continues to advance, unclassified commercial imaging systems are reaching an operationally relevant level of utility and persistence commensurate with the maritime domain awareness (MDA) problem set facing the maritime operational level commander. Particularly applicable for MDA are the wide area coverage capabilities of commercial synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites such as RADARSAT, Cosmo Sky Med and Terra SAR-X.
For the past two years, the U.S. Sixth Fleet has used the wide area search modes of SAR satellites to generate actionable, near real-time, situational awareness products to support operational and tactical decision makers.
Commercial SAR satellites primarily contribute to the left hand side of an MDA prosecution chain that includes surveillance, detection, classification, identification, location, tracking and prosecution. Systems such as RADARSAT can image up to 300 nautical mile wide swaths, which can be sewn together frame after frame, yielding tens and even hundreds of thousands of square nautical miles of north to south SAR imagery.
In terms of detection, this imagery provides an expansive “ground truth” from which open-ocean or coastal maritime situational awareness can be derived. This ground truth detection information, when fused with other information sources, such as Automatic Identification System (AIS), electronic emissions intelligence or commercial shipping data bases, can aid in sorting the distinctive set of known vessel contacts from the unknown. As such, the maritime operational commander can better allocate resources and concentrate specifically on the unknown or anomalous contacts, or patterns in activity, identified through imaging.
Continue Reading →Description The Maritime Security Conference 2012 will take place at the Westin Nova Scotian Hotel, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, from 4 to 7 June, 2012. Building on the success of the last year, the conference will be co-sponsored by the Combined Joint Operations from the Sea Centre of Excellence (CJOS COE) and the Centre of [...]
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Continue Reading →2012, Defense, Security, and Sensing will be moving to the Baltimore Convention Center. This world-class venue positions SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing at the epicenter of the defense and security marketplace. This new location will enable SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing to continue to grow to meet the needs of its over 6,000 attendees. Conference [...]
Continue Reading →The Duke of Wellington once remarked: “All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is finding out what you don’t know from what you do. That’s what I called ‘knowing what was on the other side of the hill’.” Two centuries on, the need to “know what was on the other side of the hill” – or beyond the horizon – is the primary driver for affordable and effective maritime domain awareness (MDA), at home as well as overseas.
THE IMPERATIVE OF UNDERSTANDING AND SHARING MDA WITH GLOBAL PARTNERS
The US National Security Presidential Directive 41 defines MDA as “…the effective understanding of anything associated with the global maritime domain that could impact the security, safety, economy, or environment” – a tall order. For the United States, MDA addresses a broad spectrum of threats and challenges, from environmental disasters in the Gulf of Mexico to depleted fisheries to Mariners held hostage by pirates. ‘Understanding’ is important to success against these and other threats, but even more so is sharing that understanding with organisations charged with protecting US interests, citizens and friends in the maritime domain – from America’s inland and coastal waterways and ports to the high seas (see figure 1).
Domestic efforts are important, but perhaps even more imperative are regional and global partnerships for MDA. “Increased cooperation equals increased security”, Rear Admiral David W. Titley, USN, (Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy and Director, Maritime Domain Awareness and Space, N2N6E, in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations) noted in an August interview. “Facilitating information sharing at the regional level is a cost-effective way to expand awareness for both our nation and our international partners. This will provide a cost-effective means to secure everyone’s littoral waterways, ensure the safety of commerce, and curtail the use of the maritime commons for illicit activities. But we can’t do it alone”, he underscored. “Stated another way, global situational awareness of the maritime domain cannot be monopolised by anyone nation, agency, or entity. It must be freely shared.”
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