NAUPLIOS - Navigation and perilous goods input and output system
Overview
Background & policy context:
Following a number of maritime accidents within the coastal zones of European Union countries, the European Commission issued calls to evaluate the Galileo contribution to improving monitoring and surveillance of the transport of hazardous goods.
Objectives:
NAUPLIOS aimed at demonstrating Galileo improvements for maritime navigation security and hazardous goods transport, and at evaluating new services made possible by the return link to be used for search and rescue (SAR), doing much more than a simple positioning system.
These services respond to the needs of coastal states to have at their disposal information about maritime traffic toward harbours located in an EC country and to detect rapidly any abnormal situation.
Methodology:
The architecture permitting such new services combines three main elements:
- A positioning system;
- satellite communications; and
- specific long-range messages based on the Automatic Identification System (AIS).
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