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Oceans and Maritime Panel

Order Speaker name Organisation Project Title

1 Amani Becker National Oceanography Centre

2 Lewis Miller Scisys Quantifying Congested Maritime

Environments

3 Craig Jacobs Argans Marine Litter/Plastics Monitoring

4 Q&A

5 Anthony Deakin exactEarth South Africa Safety Initiative for Small

Vessels

6 Steven Obaditch Inmarsat Reducing Illegal Fishing in Indonesia

7 David Cotton Satellite Oceanographic

Consultants (SatOC)

Coastal Risk Information Service

8 Q&A

Time: 13.00 – 14.00Chair: Amani Becker, NOCOrganiser: Athene Gadsby, UKSARoom: Lower Floor

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Oceans and Maritime Panel

Introduction

Amani BeckerNOC and University of Liverpool

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Quantifying Congested Maritime Environments

Quantifying Congested Maritime

Environments (QCME)

Using Earth Observation to address key information gaps for

situational awareness, hazard avoidance and commercial

planning

Lewis Miller, Emma Hatton and Nikos ArgyropoulosSCISYS Earth Observation – Downstream Applications

www.eo.scisys.co.uk

This feasibility study was conducted by SCISYS UK Ltd with funding from UK

Space Agency under the Space for Smarter Government Programme (SSGP

2018). The study includes modified Copernicus Service Information processed

by SCISYS, as well as information derived from Planet Labs and ExactEarth

data. Charting is © British Crown Copyright 2018. All rights reserved.

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What was the project?

o UKHO partnered to investigate ways to:

o Quantify littoral marine traffic

o Improve operational planning

o Inform commercial chart update

o The QCME Feasibility Study:

o Demonstrates efficient vessel

detection as proxy for Pattern of Life

o Compares image-based detections

to existing vessel tracking

o Develops novel processing and

efficient target aggregation methods

o Delivers new activity-based insights

using independent data sources

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Satellite Applications Used

o Exploiting optical and radar data gives

repeatable broad area coverage

o Sentinel-1 and -2

o PlanetScope Daily Images

o Integration of vessel tracking via the

Automatic Identification System (AIS)

o ExactEarth Satellite-AIS

o Terrestrial AIS

o One year study: April 2017 – April 2018

o Three very different study sites: Plymouth,

British Virgin Islands and Gibraltar

o Machine Learning aided vessel detection

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Project Outcomes:

o Detection of small / non-AIS vessels using Sentinel

o Derived activity patterns including small vessels

Benefits to Public Sector / Government / Society:

o Addresses a maritime information gap

o Scalable and low-cost approach using free data

o Reduces exposure to risk for commercial users

o Focuses chart update or services in areas of need

o Supports blue economies (environment, policing, etc)

Working together with UKHO enabled SCISYS to:

o Improve our understanding of maritime requirements

o Engage with a wider network within the community

What were the benefits and challenges?

“QCME benefited from a

close and trusted

relationship with public

sector staff at UKHO and

SSGP. We valued the

regular and open project

communications”

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What are the next steps?

o SCISYS continues to collaborate with the

public sector user to refine next steps of QCME

o The team intends to fully automate the

solution in a scalable architecture

o In future the capability could be demonstrated

over new regions for other use cases

o More broadly, the project team is investigating

the requirements of a wider audience

For more information,

come and talk to us at

our stand!

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GeoInt for Marine Litter

Craig JacobsBusiness Development Director

cjacobs@argans.co.uk

Phase 1: Feasibility Study

Funded By:

End-Users:

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Project Overview

➢Addressing the global Marine Litter challenge - GeoInt Data Platform:

• Satellites

• Drones

• Citizens (crowdsourced e.g. Simplex Application)

• Modelling

➢Phase 1 - Space for Smarter Government Programme Feasibility Study:

• Assess the potential of public satellites to detect marine litter

• To engage with public sector end-users

✓Environment Agency and Cornwall Council

➢ 13 separate case studies from 3 different environments:

• Open Water & Rivers

• Over Land

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Satellite Data Used

➢Assess the viability of Public Satellites to deliver information of significant accumulations of Marine Litter

• Sentinel 1

• Sentinel 2

➢Positioning/Geolocation

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Outcomes, Challenges and Benefits

➢Outcome:

• Proved viability of public satellites:

✓Costal Waters

✓Riverine Areas

• Significant user need:

✓better data

➢Challenges:

• No visibility on Beaches

• Sentinel 1 not viable

• Verification/Validation difficult –lack of in situ data

➢Benefits - Public Sector/ Government/Society:

• Too early as a feasibility study

➢Benefits for ARGANS:

• Public Satellites viable

• Introduction of a novel methodology based on the specific signature of litter

• Growth of Marine Litter Team

• International funding:

✓European Space Agency

✓Copernicus Marine Service

• End-User (Public/Private/NGO)

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Next Steps

➢Building further knowledge:

• VHR satellite data

• Drone data

• Crowdsourced data

➢Demonstrator prior to Service Launch:

• GeoInt for Marine Litter integrated data platform

➢Market:

• Expand engagement:

✓with local coastal councils

✓with NGOs

➢Partnerships:

• with our End-Users

• with thought leading, innovative clean-up companies

➢Exports:

• GeoInt is scalable and exportable

• A number of options are under consideration

➢Programme Expansion:

• Micro Litter

• Land Litter

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Oceans and Maritime Panel Q&A

Order Speaker name Organisation Project Title

1 Dr Amani Becker National Oceanography Centre

2 Lewis Miller Scisys Quantifying Congested Maritime

Environments

3 Craig Jacobs Argans Marine Litter/Plastics Monitoring

4 Q&A

5 Anthony Deakin exactEarth South Africa Safety Initiative for Small

Vessels

6 Steven Obaditch Inmarsat Reducing Illegal Fishing in Indonesia

7 David Cotton Satellite Oceanographic

Consultants (SatOC)

Coastal Risk Information Service

8 Q&A

QUESTIONS PLEASE!

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OASIS-TU

Anthony Deakin,

exactEarth Europe Limited

Funding Source: International Partnership

Programme

(IPP) Call One

‘SOUTH AFRICA SAFETY INITIATIVE FOR

SMALL VESSELS’ - OPERATIONAL TAKE-

UP (OASIS-TU)

IBONIA

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Project Overview

• World-wide, small fishing vessels and small commercial ships/work boats

account for many of the accidents occurring at sea

• Drowning death rates are highest in the WHO African Region.

• Small vessels in Africa typically operate outside of the range of coastal

monitoring and lack safety, navigation and communications equipment.

• South African waters are notoriously treacherous; the cost of rescue missions

in the area exceeds several million Rand a year.

• eEE is working with SAMSA and the NSRI to deploy a cost-effective means of

tracking small boats via satellite AIS (exactTrax), providing the Authorities with

a boat’s last known position in an emergency.

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Which satellite applications were used?

• Tracking small vessels is difficult even in the best circumstances. However,

appropriate satellite systems can support tracking of boats regardless of their

location – inshore, offshore, or on the high-seas.

• 1,000 exactTrax-enabled em-trak I100 AIS Identifier transponders procured

under the project, are being delivered to small boat owners and operators along

the South African coast. Detected satellite AIS data are provided to SAMSA and

the NSRI.

• Satellite AIS has the benefit over emergency beacons and man overboard

devices in that it supports position reporting at all times in any location, and not

just in times of emergency. This provides real-time collision avoidance and the

ability to know where to look if a boat does not come home, but no emergency

signal has been received.

• Transponders are battery operated and easily deployed on any boat; as well as

routine AIS position reporting, they also can transmit a standard AIS Safety

Message in the event of an emergency.

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What were the benefits and challenges?

Outcomes:

• SAMSA has confirmed that it has a budget in place to cover the post-project

annual exactTrax service cost for the 1,000 transponders.

• A new AIS exactTrax transponder has been developed by a South African RF

company, Stone Three, and very successfully trialled in Madagascar.

• Under an extension, three hundred exactTrax-enabled AIS transponders have

been supplied across seven other African countries for concept trials

Benefits:

• (expected) Reduction in South African Small Boat-Related Deaths / SaR costs

• Directly related to the OASIS-TU project, to date across 9 African countries:

• eEE is currently engaging with 19 different organisations

• 213 people have been trained in satellite AIS.

• The development of the ‘AngelFish’ transponder by Stone Three has provided

job and business opportunities in South Africa.

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What are the next steps?

• The South Africa deployment component will complete in February 2019; and

the SADC extension component will finish in March 2019.

• Legacy Monitoring & Evaluation reviews for the South Africa component are

planned for Feb 2020 & for Feb 2021.

• Persuading boat users, particularly fishers, to use the transponders is not easy.

SAMSA and the NSRI will now concentrate on maintaining usage of the

devices once deployed.

• Opportunity for full operational deployment of exactTrax in Madagascar (1,000

boats)

• We would also hope that a number of the extension trials will result in

participating countries wishing to deploy the technology operationally

Inmarsat IPP – Indonesia Fisheries

Introduction to Inmarsat

• Founded in 1979 by IMO as Inmarsat (International Maritime Satellite)

• Became a commercial company in 1999

• Operates 13 satellites and a network of ground earth stations

• Leading provider of GMDSS Global Maritime Distress and Safety at Sea satellite services

• Over 200,000 ships using Inmarsat communications

• Serving maritime, aviation, land and governments worldwide

Indonesia Programme OverviewInmarsat, with UKSA half funding, partnering with KKP and local

partners over 2 year programme 2017-2019.

Developing and deploying satellite solutions and apps

o on 200 boats 20-30GT with IDP Pointrek

o 100 boats >30GT with Fleet One

Programme Goals

Reductions in illegal fishing and more secured livelihoods

Build capability for more effective monitoring and enforcement

policies, infrastructure and processes

Enhance safety, business efficiency and crew voice that results in the

welfare and financial resilience of fishers, companies and

communities

traceabilityability to enforce

fishing community

benefits

Three Pillars of Sustainability in Fisheries

Global Challenges How Inmarsat Can Help1. Initiatives to combat maritime crimes, including maritime law enforcement and capacity building activities

• Inmarsat technology aids tracking and adds capability to law enforcement

2. Policies that promote maritime transportation safety and security

• Ability for vessels in distress to ask for help • Enable SAR coordination • Improve social impacts in poorer communities (previously

would wait weeks to find out of a vessel is lost)

3. Establishment and/or enhancement of global multi-stakeholder networks on maritime security to improve global cooperation to address various maritime security issues

• Seamless and secure communication capability to government and commercial organisations

• Enables wrongdoing to be reported via satcoms from the remotest areas of the world

• Cyber security for the technology innovations

4. Technology innovations to maritime surveillance and monitoring

• Creating affordable VMS tracking tech that will provide feature rich capabilities to large and small vessels based around safety, traceability and efficiency

5. Enhancement of information sharing mechanisms to improve maritime surveillance

• Provide the underlying data and voice communication capability at sea

Scoping

• Be clear how participation will align with your long term strategy

• Perform due diligence on your international partners (especially non gov)

• Cut ideas that do not fly in terms of SDG, business priorities or that lack up front commitment from the potential partner

• Understand the unique ODA aspects clearly and hire expertise to help

Delivering

• Focus on the delivery of the programme and build trust with your senior international stakeholders

• Engage a local programme and relationship manager to act in your interest who can navigate local customs and political situation – check references

• Leverage the UK Embassy for business development, introductions and escalations

• Use opportunity to commercially learn and localise your offerings where appropriate

Key Lessons

Thank You

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CRISe – Coastal Risk Information Service

David Cotton (Satellite Oceanographic

Consultants Ltd)

IPP Phase 1

C-RISe - Supporting vulnerable coastal

populations in addressing the consequences

of climate variability and change

http://www.c-rise.info

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C-RISe - Project Overview – What is the Problem?

• Global sea level is increasing, and large-scale weather patterns are

changing.

• C-RISe partner countries in the South West Indian Ocean

(Mozambique, Madagascar, South Africa) have significant coastal

populations highly vulnerable to the consequences of climate

variability and change.

• With access to improved regional information on coastal risk factors

(sea level, wave and wind extremes) plans to protect coastal

communities and safeguard economic activity can be improved.

• Will also contribute to improving industrial and commercial

competitiveness in the maritime sector, heavily dependent on access

to accurate relevant oceanographic information.

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The C-RISe Solution

C-RISe Data Products

• Reprocessed satellite sea level measurements: derived

trends and variability

• Waves, winds and surface current climatologies

• Near real time waves, winds and currents

Use Cases

• Practical applications to implement use of C-RISe data

• 33 Use Cases in 5 themes: Marine Protected Area

Management; Sea State Information, Sea Level

Analyses; Wind and Wave Climate Variability; Climate

Change Impact on Marine Ecosystems

Training Workshops

1. Wind, Wave and Sea Level Information from Satellites• November / December 2017, 31 participants at 2 locations

2. Satellite Data for Coastal Risk Applications• October 2018, 60 participants at 3 locations

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C-RISE: Benefits and challenges?

• 2 years into a 3 year project – Evaluation is starting

• Aim is to support development of local capability through knowledge transfer and training

• Very high local interest, with diverse needs:

• 60 participants in the latest training, increase from 31 in the previous year

• 33 Use Cases under 5 themes, only 4 originally planned!

• Benefits to UK partners are through development of new long-term partnerships

• Challenge is to build a sustainable partnership and maintain trajectory to impact

• Need to ensure C-RISe information feeds through to strategy development and

decision making in coastal management.

• Benefits to local population generally over the longer term – Impacts from

development of coastal management strategies will be felt in 5-10 yr timescale

• Communication can be a big challenge, useful to build a network of local contacts

who are enthusiastic and fully engaged

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Next steps for C-RISe

• Evaluation of the C-RISe services, and development of Road Map / Business Case for

implementing a long-term, sustainable service.

• Local countries have limited resources to develop / maintain infrastructure, and to provide

funding. Funding sources may be international.

• Enabling / supporting feed through of C-RISE information into local strategy development.

• Expanding project to include new partners in Mauritius. Potential to develop a collaborative

regional network

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Oceans and Maritime Panel Q&A

Order Speaker name Organisation Project Title

1 Dr Amani Becker National Oceanography Centre

2 Lewis Miller Scisys Quantifying Congested Maritime

Environments

3 Craig Jacobs Argans Marine Litter/Plastics Monitoring

4 Q&A

5 Anthony Deakin exactEarth South Africa Safety Initiative for Small

Vessels

6 Steven Obaditch Inmarsat Reducing Illegal Fishing in Indonesia

7 David Cotton Satellite Oceanographic

Consultants (SatOC)

Coastal Risk Information Service

8 Q&A

QUESTIONS PLEASE!