Objective
The SeaBILLA proposal aims to 1) define the architecture for cost-effective European Sea Border Surveillance systems, integrating space, land, sea and air assets, including legacy systems; 2) apply advanced technological solutions to increase performances of surveillance functions; 3) develop and demonstrate significant improvements in detection, tracking, identification and automated behaviour analysis of all vessels, including hard to detect vessels, in open waters as well as close to coast. SeaBILLA is based on requirements for Sea Border Surveillance defined by experienced operational users. These requirements have been transformed into Scenarios, included in Annex to this proposal, representative of gaps and opportunities for fruitful cooperative information exchange between Members States a) for fighting drug trafficking in the English Channel; b) for addressing illegal immigration in the South Mediterranean; c) for struggling illicit activities in open-sea in the Atlantic waters from Canary Islands to the Azores; in coherence with the EU Integrated Maritime Policy, EUROSUR and Integrated Border Management, and in compliance with Member States sovereign prerogatives. The project will provide concrete added value and benefits for users, by providing a solution that can be implemented at national and EU level to increase effectiveness, pool resources and address Maritime Security and Safety challenges; for world competitiveness of EU industries, by increasing knowledge and reducing risks for future product investments; for European citizens, by providing effectively deployable solutions for law enforcement along the European sea borders. SeaBILLA will be carried out by a reliable team of major European system integrators, technology providers and leading research organizations, establishing strong links with several EU and national projects and assuring worldwide exploitation of project results.
Call for proposal
FP7-SEC-2009-1
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Funding Scheme
CP - Collaborative project (generic)Coordinator
00195 Roma
Italy
Participants (27)
00195 Roma
43124 Parma
GU14 6YU Farnborough
60372 Or Yehuda
78990 Elancourt
2770 153 Paco De Arcos
02006 Albacete Castilla La Mancha
164 90 Stockholm
7300 AS Apeldoorn
28108 Alcobendas Madrid
1049 Brussels
75018 Paris
75015 Paris
1932 Zaventem
00131 Roma
71254 Ditzingen
2595 DA Den Haag
75100 Matera
78990 Elancourt
39011 Santander
WC1E 6BT London
30003 Murcia
PO1 2UP Portsmouth
31100 Toulouse
92230 Gennevilliers
00156 Roma
00131 Roma
