Land and sea integrated monitoring for European security

Project Information

LIMES

Grant agreement ID: 31046

Project closed

Start date 1 December 2006

End date 31 May 2010

Funded under

• Aeronautics and Space: thematic priority 4 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Total cost € 21 196 157,00

EU contribution € 11 928 618,00

Coordinated by

TELESPAZIO SPA
Italy

Objective

LIMES has the goal to define and develop prototype information services, based on satellite technology, to support security management at EU and global level in the following thematic/policy areas of interest:
- Organization and distribution of humanitarian aid and reconstruction
- Surveillance of the EU borders (land and sea)
- Surveillance and protection of maritime transport for sensitive cargo
- Protection against emerging security threats (e.g. terrorism, illegal trafficking, proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction).

The services developed by LIMES will support the building up of a common cooperation framework between the major EU research and operational actors on Security management. LIMES has the following operational objectives: Definition, development and validation of pre-operational versions of:
- Services to support Security management in EU;
- Enabling Decision Support Tools and Platforms for the provision of the services.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• social sciences › political sciences › political transitions › terrorism
• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › vehicle engineering › aerospace engineering › satellite technology
• social sciences › social geography › transport

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Programme(s)

• FP6-AEROSPACE - Aeronautics and Space: thematic priority 4 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• AERO-2005-2.3.2.1b - Security

Call for proposal

FP6-2005-SPACE-1
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Funding Scheme

IP - Integrated Project

Coordinator

TELESPAZIO SPA

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: via Tiburtina 965 ; ROME ; Italy
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Participants (47)

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, DIRECTORATE GENERAL JRC

Belgium

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• Address: BRUXELLES
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THALES ALENIA SPACE ITALIA

Italy

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• Address: Via Saccomuro,24 ; ROMA
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THALES ALENIA SPACE FRANCE

France

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• Address: 26, avenue Jean-François Champollion ; TOULOUSE
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GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE S.A.

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Issac Newton 11 PTM Tres Cantos ; TRES CANTOS MADRID
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ASTRIUM SAS

France

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• Address: 6, Rue Laurent Pichat ; PARIS
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ISTITUTO AFFARI INTERNAZIONALI

Italy

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• Address: Via Angelo Brunetti, 9 ; ROME
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NAVIGATE CONSORTIUM

Italy

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• Address: Via Brera, 16 ; MILANO
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KONGSBERG SATELLITE SERVICES AS

Norway

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• Address: Prestvannveien 38 ; PO Box 6180 TROMSOE
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THALES COMMUNICATIONS SA

France

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• Address: 160 Boulevard de Valmy ; BP82 COLOMBES
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D'APPOLONIA

Italy

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• Address: Via San Nazaro, 19 ; GENOA
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DEFINIENS AG

Germany

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• Address: Trappentreustr. 1 ; MUNICH
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GAF AG

Germany

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• Address: Arnulfstrassee 197 ; MÜCHEN
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INFOTERRA LIMITED

United Kingdom

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• Address: Atlas House, 41 Wembley Road ; LEICESTER
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NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT

Norway

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• Address: Instituttveien 20 ; PO Box 25 KJELLER
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JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT M.B.H.

Austria

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• Address: Steyrergasse 17 ; GRAZ
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GUARDIA COSTIERA

Italy

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• Address: Viale dell'Arte 16 ; ROME
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PARIS LODRON UNIVERSITAT SALZBURG

Austria

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• Address: Kapitelgasse 4-6 ; SALZBURG
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SPACE RESEARCH CENTRE, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Poland

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• Address: Bartycka 18a ; WARSZAWA
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UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR PROJECT SERVICES

Switzerland

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• Address: 11-13 chemin des Anémones ; GENEVA
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NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS

Greece

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• Address: Lofos Nymfon, Thission ; PO Box 200 48 ATHENS
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PRESIDENZA DEL CONSIGLIO DEI MINISTRI - DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE

Italy

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• Address: Via Ulpiano 11 ; ROMA
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CENTRO ITALIANO RICERCHE AEROSPAZIALI

Italy

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• Address: Via Maiorise snc ; CAPUA (CE)
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SPACE ENGINEERING S.P.A.

Italy

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• Address: Via dei Berio 91 ; ROMA
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4C TECHNOLOGIES

Belgium

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• Address: Veldkant 35 D ; KONTICH
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GEOAPIKONISIS SA

Greece

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• Address: 11 Maiandroupoleos Str ; ATHENS
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ITALIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL OF RESEARCH

Italy

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• Address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 ; ROMA
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UNIVERSITY OF ROME "LA SAPIENZA"

Italy

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• Address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 5 ; ROMA
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EUROPEAN UNION SATELLITE CENTRE

Spain

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• Address: Avda. de Cadiz, 457 ; TORREJÓN DE ARDOZ, MADRID
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UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA

Spain

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• Address: D3-Campus Nord - UPC / Jordi Girona 1-3 ; BARCELONA
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HELLENIC MINISTRY OF MERCHANT MARINE

Greece

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• Address: 150, Grigoriou Lampraki Ave. ; PIRAEUS
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CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS

Greece

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• Address: 6th Km Charilaou-Thermi Road ; PO Box 361 THERMI - THESSALONIKI
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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK

Ireland

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• Address: College Road ; CORK
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INGENIERA Y SERVICIOS AEROSPACIALES S.A

Spain

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• Address: Paseo Pintor Rosales 34 ; MADRID
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TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG

Germany

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• Address: Akademiestrasse 6 ; FREIBERG
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FLYBY SRL

Italy

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• Address: Via Puini 97 ; LIVORNO
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ITALIAN RED CROSS

Italy

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• Address: via Toscana Nr 12 ; ROME
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PLANETEK ITALIA

Italy

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• Address: via Massaua, 12 ; BARI
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ATOS ORIGIN SOCIEDAD ANONIMA ESPAÑOLA

Spain

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• Address: Albarracin, 25 ; MADRID
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DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FÜR LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRT E.V.

Germany

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• Address: Linder Hoehe ; KOELN
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FONDATION POUR LA RECHERCHE STRATÉGIQUE

France

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• Address: 27, rue Damesme ; PARIS
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INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT

France

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• Address: 213, Rue Lafayette ; PARIS
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QINETIQ LTD

United Kingdom

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• Address: 85 Buckingham Gate ; LONDON
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SOCIÉTÉ WALLONNE DE PHOTOGRAMMÉTRIE.

Belgium

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• Address: rue Van Opré, 97 ; NAMUR
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Spot Image SA

France

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• Address: 5, rue des satellites ; 4359 TOULOUSE
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UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PISA

Italy

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• Address: Lungarno Pacinotti 43-44 ; PISA
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UNIVERSITÀ  DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO

Italy

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• Address: Via Belenzani, 12 ; TRENTO
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UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR STRASBOURG I

France

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• Address: rue Blaise Pascal, 4 ; STRASBOURG
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