Satellite Assistance for Danube Navigation

SAFERDANUBE will help the Romanian River Administration of the Lower Danube (AFDJ) in improving safety and fluency of the naval traffic during the winter and summer periods where ice banks/sand banks appear in the Danube. In addition, the project expects to demonstrate how the use of Satellite Communications can be a competitive alternative to standard mobile telephony for vessels navigating along the Danube. To achieve this objective, the project envisages the design, development, integration and pre-operation of a service to detect, monitor and distribute obstacles information (i.e. ice and/or sand banks) in the Danube river in near-real time. The service will be based on Satellite Earth Observation (Very High Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar).