Border surveillance plays a critical role in ensuring national security by detecting and preventing illegal activities. This chapter presents a novel approach utilizing a lighter-than-air (LTA) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), equipped with ultra-high-resolution multisensor payload, meant for border surveillance (relevant to transnational organized crime activities), search and rescue (SaR), and rough terrain detection. The BorderUAS Project proposes a payload platform equipped with a synthetic aperture radar (SAR), a shortwave/longwave infrared (SWIR/LWIR) and acoustic sensors, coupled with optical and hyperspectral cameras intended for indirect detection. To achieve its goals, BorderUAS is further capitalizing on border police infrastructure (command and control centers), innovative data models for irregular crossing patterns and routes identification, events detection, as well as advanced audio/video analytics, data fusion, and storage. First results show that the proposed solution offers increased operational flexibility, rapid deployment, and comprehensive multisensory coverage and analysis of the surveyed areas.

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BorderUAS Project: Semiautonomous Border Surveillance Platform Combining a Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with Ultra-High-Resolution Multisensor Surveillance Payload: A Comprehensive Overview

  • Ioannis Athanasakis,
  • Dimitrios Myttas,
  • Theodore D. Katsilieris,
  • Elisavet Bellou,
  • Michalis Zervakis,
  • Marios Antonakakis,
  • Nikolaos Koutras,
  • George Boulougaris,
  • Marios Georgiou,
  • Iva Salom,
  • Dejan Todorovic,
  • Ivan Salajster,
  • Giovanni Nico,
  • Olimpia Masci,
  • Ioannis Kontopodis,
  • Francisco Iriarte,
  • Peter Leskovsky

摘要

Border surveillance plays a critical role in ensuring national security by detecting and preventing illegal activities. This chapter presents a novel approach utilizing a lighter-than-air (LTA) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), equipped with ultra-high-resolution multisensor payload, meant for border surveillance (relevant to transnational organized crime activities), search and rescue (SaR), and rough terrain detection. The BorderUAS Project proposes a payload platform equipped with a synthetic aperture radar (SAR), a shortwave/longwave infrared (SWIR/LWIR) and acoustic sensors, coupled with optical and hyperspectral cameras intended for indirect detection. To achieve its goals, BorderUAS is further capitalizing on border police infrastructure (command and control centers), innovative data models for irregular crossing patterns and routes identification, events detection, as well as advanced audio/video analytics, data fusion, and storage. First results show that the proposed solution offers increased operational flexibility, rapid deployment, and comprehensive multisensory coverage and analysis of the surveyed areas.