Life program SEADETECT on track

SEADETECT is a European Union’s LIFE project that aims at developing an automated detection system to reduce vessel collision risk with marine mammals and unidentified floating objects (UFOs). The LIFE Programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action.

This detection system consists in combining three elements :

• An automated onboard detection system composed of several sensors : RADAR, 3D-LiDAR and electro-optics sensors system.
• A real-time passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) network at sea
• A real-time detection-sharing and alert system (REPCET®)

For the SeaDetect project, NEXVISION designs a very innovative optical detection of cetaceans, based on artificial intelligence (Deeplearning) algorithms running on a dedicated designed electro-optics composed of:

• An on-sea object detection and classification video camera with 180° panoramic view and a panoramic dual band (thermal infrared LWIR 1920×480 + visible band 12Kx4K) customised from https://nexvision.fr/products/panoramic-camera/panomix-panoramic-vision/;
• A cetacean recognition and tracking zoom camera equipped with a long range view, a gyro-stabilised gimbal with zoom optics (continuous magnification x10, 4° – 40°) and triple band (thermal long-wave infrared LWIR 1280×1024 vision + visible-near infrared VNIR 4Kx4K quarter moon night vision + visible color band 4Kx4K), customised from https://nexvision.fr/products/gsg9-gsg11-gyrostabilized-gimbal/; 
• A vision calculator to analyse images and detect cetaceans by an artificial intelligence algorithm, customised from https://nexvision.fr/evpu-embedded-vision-processing-unit/;
• A command and control Human-Machine Interface with 4K tactile display.

More details : https://riojournal.com/article/113968/element/8/204224//