Maritime Surveillance

Maritime surveillance includes monitoring of sea borders, maritime safety, illegal immigration and illegal trafficking.

Copernicus Sentinel-1's SAR mission supports ship monitoring.

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Piracy may be a topic of schoolboy adventure stories, but it’s still a dangerous and costly problem for merchant shipping and tourism in some parts of the world. In the pirate-ridden waters of the Indian Ocean, satellites show that environmental conditions have limited recent pirate activity.


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