European enhanced space-based AIS system study

Author

Scorzolini, Andrea ; De Perini, Veronica ; Razzano, Elena ; Colavolpe, Giulio ; Mendes, Susana ; Fiori, Pierluigi ; Sorbo, Angelo

Author_Institution

Telespazio, Rome, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

13-15 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

16

Abstract

A recent study of an European consortium (TPZ, Carlo Gavazzi Space, Edisoft, Elman, ITS) led by Telespazio and co-financed by ESA has investigated about the possibility of receiving AIS signals (i.e., AIS transmissions of vessels equipped with regular AIS transponders) from space with an improved performance with respect to the current literature thanks to an optimized mission design and enhanced technical capabilities mainly in terms of antennas and signal processing. The performances is assessed by means of a dedicated end-to-end System Simulator developed during the project.

Keywords

antennas; signal processing; space communication links; AIS signals; European consortium; antennas; automatic identification system; signal processing; space-based AIS system; Base stations; Companies; Marine vehicles; Monitoring; Orbits; Payloads; Satellites; AIS: Automatic Identification System; EO: Earth Observation; IMO: International Maritime Organization; ITU: International Telecommunications Union; VHF: Very High Frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced satellite multimedia systems conference (asma) and the 11th signal processing for space communications workshop (spsc), 2010 5th

Conference_Location

Cagliari

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6831-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6832-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASMS-SPSC.2010.5586883

Filename

5586883