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India Defence Online, New Delhi — The Indian government’s continuous efforts to secure its vast coastline are being pursued with the much needed urgency and zeal in order to ward-off any shortcomings in homeland security.
The most conspicuous development in that front has been the implementation of the Coastal Surveillance Scheme which aims to protect India’s vulnerable coastline from any maritime threat. The Coastal Surveillance Scheme is a network of radars and sensors installed on lighthouses and towers. These electro-optic sensors will enable the transmission of data picked up from along the coast to surveillance centres located in the interior. By assimilating data gathered from sensors, radars and cameras, the image of the threat will be available with clarity. This process is called data fusion, which up until now has been a challenge to create.
The only hitch that was being faced in the Coastal Surveillance Scheme was the issue of transmission of data from the electro-optic sensors and integrating it to form a clear picture. However, the state-owned Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has managed to solve the problem. Software that will enable the transmission and integration of the data received from the various sensors and radars along the coast has been created. This software will enable the Remote Operating Station to remotely manipulate its coastal radars and cameras and observe any threat in greater detail.
As for the other tasks of the software, they include monitoring the health of the remote systems and the presence of an alarm system that gets activated when a threat is perceived in the sensitive coastal zone. BEL has also indicated that the issue of data fusion, wherein the multiple inputs of the data from sensors and radars are integrated, has been sorted. BEL had built up enormous experience in data fusion while developing the Indian navy’s Combat Management Systems.
The Coastal Surveillance Scheme will have two phases of implementation. The Phase 1 will involve the coast guard setting up 46 electro-optic sensor stations in high-threat areas, and 12 Remote Operating Stations. The Phase 2 will cover the entire coastline over the next three years. The 12 Remote Operating Stations feed into one of the four Regional Operating Centres at Mumbai, Kochi, Chennai and Visakhapatanam. Finally, the apex control centre, where all the data will be fed in real-time, will be in New Delhi and the entire data will be composed into one operational picture.
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