Israeli Innovation Helps Protect Large Scale Events
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Recently there’s a growing demand by security forces and decision makers to achieve real time, continuous intelligence imagery covering a wide area in high resolution, for situational awareness purposes during large scale events.
A new system was demonstrated during the traditional Carnival in Sao Salvador da Bahia, a new breakthrough wide-area, persistent surveillance ground system which generates real-time intelligence imagery in high resolution, enabling security forces to enhance the safety and security of the thousands participating in the Carnival celebrations.
The system, called GroundEye, is a highly sophisticated wide-area, persistent surveillance ground system. providing comprehensive situational awareness for multiple users. With it security forces can monitor and deal with multiple events simultaneously in the area-of-interest under their responsibility. In addition, the system detects and issues alerts upon the occurrence of pre-programmed events, thereby complementing and enhancing human detection capacity.
The system used during the Salvador Carnival is designed for both civilian and military applications, including border protection, perimeter control of infrastructure and critical sites, military operations, Safe City programs and large scale events.
iHLS – Israel Homeland Security
The system’ s main components are a mast-top, non-rotating panoramic sensor head, a processing and storage unit and several operator stations. GroundEye enables re-playing scenarios recorded recently or in the past, to be examined later by operators.
Located at the foot of the mast is a large storage device used to store the vast volume of imagery flowing from the mast-top sensors, at the same time it is being viewed. This multiple random-read access, allows several users to examine, in parallel, several events which occurred at different times and in different locations. Built into the system are powerful image processing capabilities, aimed at providing users with rigorous investigation and alert tools.
The system, developed by the Israeli Elbit Systems, can be operated either in a stand-alone mode or in a network integrated mode, meshing with the customer’s existing command and control networks.
Photographs: Elbit Systems.
