Maritime Prevention Project (MAPP) Demonstrator

This hidden tracker is discreet, GNSS-free, autonomous with a long lifetime battery to keep track of vessels in all circumstances and allow early detection of anomalous ships’ behaviours. The ARGOS system, on which the service is based, offers advanced “doppler effect” positioning and low consumption transmitters capabilities to provide valid ship’s location during several years. In addition, the knowledge of the valid ship’s location after an attack brings the accurate intelligence to enrich the maritime picture thanks to Earth Observations data (radar or optical images) at their best resolution. The attacked vessels’ locations given by the hidden tracker allow optimized EO acquisitions by reducing the swath and then increase the resolution to get valuable space images including the non-cooperative detection of surrounding vessels in the vicinity of the attacked ship. The target users for this study are: Shipping companies; Situational awareness centres; Insurance companies (indirect).