French HFSWR contribution to the European integrated maritime surveillance system I2C

Surveillance of the large Exclusive Economic Zone (i.e. 200 NM from the shore lines) is a challenge since many years. Three main issues are recurrently pointed out: the radar coverage up to the EEZ boundaries, the monitoring of small vessels and the analysis of the vessel behaviors. The European project I2C (i.e. Integrated System for Interoperable sensors & Information sources for Common abnormal vessel behaviour detection & Collaborative identification of threat) tackles those three issues and supply an effective solution from detection up to threat identification. The present paper focuses on long range detection with the new High Frequency Surface Wave Radar (HFSWR), owned by ONERA, which supplies the EEZ coverage to I2C project.