Improvement of Maritime Safety in the Baltic Sea through Enhanced Situational Awareness

The ISABELIA Feasibility Study specified and validated the sustainability of services and that would provide users at sea with near real time information on dangerous ice situations, indicators of collision risk and on risk of grounding, thereby improving the safety of vessels in the Baltic Sea. The objective of the ISABELIA feasibility study was to evaluate the technical feasibility and economic viability of an integrated solution supported by at least two space assets (AIS equipment and messaging, as well as EO data) providing services to improve the maritime safety in the Baltic Sea by enhancing the situational awareness in support of preventing collision and grounding of vessels, and minimising consequential damage in case of an accident.