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the maritime security segment. systems for maritime surveillance. The uses shifts in mass to steer and changes

In the Project’s term, ended in June objectives have been successfully met in buoyancy to dive and surface) and a

PERSEUS 2015, CMRE scientists and engineers by using innovative solutions integrated Wave Glider (an autonomous vehicle

Autonomous, Real-time worked to design, develop and dem- on board unmanned mobile platforms, with a surface ? oat and a submerged

Maritime Surveillance onstrate at sea concepts of continuous, i.e. both on an underwater glider (an glider, generating forward movement by

Conventional surveillance technolo- gies cannot easily help to detect fast real-time passive underwater acoustic autonomous underwater vehicle which exploiting sea wave energy). boats, which generally have small radar signatures and do not carry automatic identi? cation systems (AIS). For this reason, the NATO STO CMRE (Center for Maritime Research and Experimen- tation) has addressed this problem along with other project partners, as part of the

European project PERSEUS.

The PERSEUS project (Protection of

European BoRders and Seas through the

IntElligent Use of Surveillance), coordi- nated by Spanish technological company

Indra, is one of the most signi? cant ini- tiatives within the 7th Framework Pro- gram of the European Commission, and has constituted the ? agship of R&D in

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