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Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of the use of Unmanned Aerial Systems or drones by governments, consumers and \u2013 unfortunately \u2013 also by terrorists and criminals. Indeed, whereas there are a great number of very good applications for the use of drones, these new technological tools provide also a threat in the hands of people with bad intentions. Examples are the use of unmanned aerial robotic vehicles or drones for operations such as illegal observation and surveillance and drugs trafficking, or even as attack vector. Currently, it is very difficult for law enforcement and border management authorities to deal with these new\u00a0 threats, as the Radar Cross Section of these drones is too small to be detected by regular radar systems.<\/p>\n

Several novel detection modalities are being researched to tackle this problem: RADAR, LIDAR, Acoustic Sensing, Radio Sensing, Thermal Sensing and Visual sensing. However, no individual sensing modality currently attains satisfying levels of accuracy. The European Commission noted this capability gap and decided to fund the H2020-SafeShore project, which has as a main goal to cover existing gaps in coastal border surveillance, increasing internal security by preventing cross-border crime such as trafficking in human beings and the smuggling of drugs.<\/p>\n

The SafeShore core solution for detecting small targets that are flying at low altitude is to use a 3D LIDAR that scans the sky and creates above the protected area a virtual dome shield. 3D LIDAR will be integrated with passive acoustic sensors, passive radio detection and video analytics. With this 3D LIDAR technology, the SafeShore system is able to cover a vast area of the coastal border using mobile platforms. Each mobile platform covers its area with a dome-shaped virtual detection shield with a radius of about 250-300m. Overlapping multiple platforms creates a continuous detection shield along the shoreline.<\/p>\n

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