The world’s oceans, seas, and waterways are trade routes that are increasingly threatened by non-state actors, perpetrating criminal acts of terrorism, piracy, drug trafficking, over-fishing, pollution, illegal immigration and other abuses to international cooperation and law. For the first time in history, these non-state actors now have the ability for global reach and the potential for disastrous global impact. The emergence of unrestricted, asymmetric threats facilitated by the proliferation of technology and emergence of the global economy underscores the need for increased global situational awareness, and sharing that awareness with legitimate national sovereignties to enhance safety, security and prosperity.
The CANEUS Shared SmallSat CSSP International Workshop aims to:
- Provide participants and potential stakeholders with an interactive, in-depth assessment of current end-user requirements for AIS and data exfiltration to support short term and potential long term requirements, including potential new applications. This assessment would also help identify and address outstanding issues with current AIS and data exfiltration systems, such as, safety, security, privacy, infrastructure care and feeding cost, policies on data sharing, vulnerabilities to interference, reliability, and authentication.
- Present program factors with the active participation and contributions of attendees to articulate data gathering, data handling, and data distribution concepts; Small Sat Constellation Systems and Technologies; AIS and data exfiltration Applications.
- Facilitate international partnership by addressing challenges to collaborative framework models. Issues to be discussed include: proposed data formats, assigned frequencies and bandwidth; legal policies and considerations; regulatory considerations; and proposed Consortium scope, structure, roadmap and ROM funding.
CANEUS-Shared Small Satellites
Date: 20-22 October 2010
Location: Tuscany, Italy
Venue: Marina di Carrara
For more information and registration go to: CANEUS
