The European maritime safety and surveillance project MARISA reaches its initial operational level

Between 5 and 9 November, the Spanish Guardia Civil and the Portuguese Navy - in conjunction with GMV, INOV and Inovaworks - carried out the Iberian trial as part of the MARISA project.

The main purpose of MARISA (Maritime Integrated Surveillance Awareness), which started in May 2017, is the integration of Big Data with the Fusion of Multisensor Data, an innovative technique for the exploitation of data from different sources to obtain useful and quality information, in this case applied to maritime security activities. This will be made possible thanks to the development of a series of interoperable tools which will be used to access more easily the data generated by different technological resources that are currently in operation.

The project is the result of a consortium led by the Italian multinational Leonardo, together with another 21 companies from nine EU Member States. GMV is one of the members and has a significant role in the project. It is in charge of designing the system, developing level-one fusion algorithms and detecting anomalies, together with the execution of integration and operational tests.

During this trial, in which two vessels provided by the Guardia Civil and the Portuguese Navy took part, different solutions foreseen within the project were tested and the capacity of the anomaly detection services and the visualisation software was evaluated. GMV, as the party in charge of these trials, coordinated the activities to be executed in the Guardia Civil’s facilities in Madrid and those of the Portuguese Navy in Lisbon, ensuring their success.

The success of this demonstration, together with the rest of the operational trials, has led to the commencement of the project’s Phase 2 activities, which will take place throughout 2019. In this second phase, the design and implementation of data and infrastructure fusion services will be updated on the basis of the results of the operational trials. Moreover, extra functionalities will be added.