Maritime Surveillance
Maritime surveillance includes monitoring of sea borders, maritime safety, illegal immigration and illegal trafficking. SENTINEL-1's SAR mission supports ship monitoring.
Thematic Results
Sentinels catch traffic jam07 August 2015Low water levels in the Danube river have left ships to queue close to the town of Zimnicea in Romania. Satellites and piracy on the high seas15 June 2012Piracy may be a topic of schoolboy adventure stories, but it’s still a dangerous and costly problem for merchant shipping and tourism in some parts of the world. In the pirate-ridden waters of the Indian Ocean, satellites show that environmental conditions have limited recent pirate activity. Pressure now on to launch ESA's Sentinel missions07 June 2012The loss of the Envisat satellite is affecting services by Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme. Efforts are being coordinated with other space agencies to fill some of the gaps, but the situation adds further urgency to launch the Sentinel missions. |
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