ALTISS is an innovative solution that will improve force protection while decreasing collateral damages and logistic footprint. The objective is to increase air observation coverage capacity through an affordable permanent detection of crossing events on a linear surface 10 km x 500 km wide when the others rare and expensive air observation assets are unavailable, either dedicated to more critical mission or too expensive to be acquired by governments. The SMEs of the consortium will strengthen their ability to provide assets for security and defence purpose in these critical capacities: 

• Enhanced image processing algorithms for light UAV on-board processing and automated event detection 
• Enhanced SIGINT sensors and on-board processing to detect and localize radio emitters and merge info with image processing to improve the identification of targets 
• Affordable resilient UAVs’ swarm flight based on innovative solutions for UHF communication and flight management system The architecture and the specification of the project will also ensure the ability of the solution to be easily deployed in the current C4ISR environment by using EU & NATO standards. 

MALE UAVs are highly effective but have a huge Total Cost of Ownership with expensive and time-consuming Operation & Maintenance. That reduces the affordability of these capacities and leads to use these assets only for anticipation and high added value targets or stakes. Therefore, it is difficult to commit UAVs capacity to provide air observation in support of less strategic missions or area even if by doing so you could increase force protection and decrease collateral damages. 

ALTISS fills the gap between MALE UAVs and Mini-Drones Reconnaissance Systems. It gives the ability to deploy permanent forward air observation system when and where it is needed even if the major assets are dedicated to a more strategic mission. It is an operational game changer to carry out both defence and security mission.