Coastal Surveillance

Wide area surveillance of coastlines with SPYNEL 360 IR sensors

Piracy, illegal and irregular immigration, drug trafficking, smuggling… Protecting one’s own coastline is becoming increasingly challenging. From Navies who want to set virtual fences and monitor traffic around their Naval bases, to Coast Guards and Customs who want to strengthen surveillance of sensitive areas and to Islands cities or countries who want to protect their inner waters: Coastal surveillance organisations thus need state of the art, reliable sensors that operate in all weather conditions.

With 15 years of experience in optronics wide area surveillance, HGH SPYNEL® surveillance cameras deliver astonishing performance in coastal surveillance. The systems enable full maritime and coastal domain awareness with real-time 360-degree thermal videos, detection & tracking of multiple simultaneous targets.

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Advantages of SPYNEL® coastal surveillance solution include:

  • Detection & tracking of small boats and swimmers
  • Automatic classification of maritime and air targets with Artificial Intelligence
  • Alarm editor: smart alarm filtering (speed, trajectory, size…) and automatic response (screenshot, email, video, etc.)
  • Smart virtual fences
  • Friend/ Foe discrimination with AIS tracks integration and fusion
  • All in one cost effective solution with low integration cost
  • Easy integration with your security systems:
    • Multi-layer coastal surveillance with integration and fusion of Radar alarms
    • Long range identification capabilities with interfacing with Pan Tilt Zoom (PTZ) cameras
    • Integration with Search Lights and LRAD devices for countereaction
    • Integration with navigational & monitoring software (Vessel Traffic System – VTS)
    • Integration into third part Video Management System (VMS) – ONVIF Profile S compliant

Specific Coastal Surveillance Applications

Strengthening maritime security of a continental island

Monitoring the coasts of an island can be difficult due to various installation configurations and distances. Network integration is possible with SPYNEL®using reduced bandwidth consumption and various communication technologies. This provides a 360° overview around the full island that can be displayed in a single monitoring and control room.

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Naval base protection

Despite a large variety and number of vessels are travelling around a naval base or a strategic port, SPYNEL®  provides efficient and early detection. With Artificial Intelligence and smart alerts criteria, Cyclope software provides friend/foe discrimination. Integration into existing VMS (ONVIF compliant) eases the monitoring and communication with base security crews.

With ten different SPYNEL® models, HGH can cover your short, medium and long-range surveillance requirements. Spynel® solutions have already been deployed worldwide and help several of our clients achieve their maritime and coastal surveillance objective.

coastal surveillance classification

3 Key Points

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Very long distance monitoring

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Suitable for marine environment, robust

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Plug & Play

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