Smart Fishing and Route Planning System

GLAUCUS is an end-to-end system to help fisheries to optimise their navigation routes and identify the best fishing grounds, dynamically updated to know where it would be more convenient to fish them during the fishing trip. The system will allow fishermen not only to locate the fishing grounds and the best time to fish in them over time but will also provide the optimal route to navigate through the seas, between fishing grounds and/or to the ports.

Initial services are developed for any fishery operating in the Atlantic Ocean, but service could be extended worldwide.

GLAUCUS is only possible thanks to an intense use of space assets. Vessels historical and current positions are gathered thanks to SAT-AIS, which are used to plan the future routes that require Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) to ensure navigation across seas and oceans.

Satellite Earth Observation is used to determine the ocean state conditions which are essential inputs for determining the optimal fishing grounds and routes and its associated weather forecasts.  Finally, intense use of Satellite Communications are required to transmit and receive information in the vessels and the GLAUCUS Service Center.