ALFA (1) H2020 Project: Advanced Low Flying Aircrafts Detection and Tracking
EUVATION: Spotlight on European Innovation
Technikon
5 • 1 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we speak with Jose-Ramon Martinez about the ALFA Project. This EU H2020 funded effort ultimately seeks to create safer maritime borders in Europe by building state of the art sensing equipment which detects low and slow flying aerial vehicles. As the project team meets to test the integration of the equipment, we get answers to the questions -how does it work, what results are expected and what are the challenges?
The ALFA project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 700002.
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| 0:00.0 | Powerful collaborations, cutting-edge science, and curious minds coming together for a glimpse of the future. |
| 0:12.0 | Stay tuned as we look at the latest updates on some of the most promising technology projects. |
| 0:19.0 | It's the end of June in 2019. promising technology projects. |
| 0:24.6 | It's the end of June in 2019. I'm with a few dozen computer programmers, radar specialists, |
| 0:29.6 | coders, engineers, and even national police authorities |
| 0:33.6 | at the southern coast of Portugal near the Spanish border. |
| 0:37.7 | We have the companies T&O and Tales from the Netherlands, Atoz from Spain, and engineering |
| 0:44.0 | from Italy. |
| 0:45.2 | To name a few. |
| 0:46.4 | And what are they doing? |
| 0:47.7 | They're testing their work. |
| 0:49.0 | This group usually works together from countries across Europe, but today they come together as a team in order to |
| 0:56.1 | test a solution to a growing problem. Drug smuggling. Of course, it's not a new issue. The bad guys are |
| 1:04.6 | constantly looking for innovative ways to carry out cross-border drops. In this case, UAVs. |
| 1:11.5 | Unmanned aerial vehicles are a viable solution for the smugglers |
| 1:14.7 | because they fly low and slow and under the radar, literally. |
| 1:20.3 | We're mainly talking about drones here, |
| 1:22.5 | and to be more specific, we're talking about the vulnerable border |
| 1:26.0 | between Europe and Africa. With the |
| 1:29.3 | possibility for the bad guy to send a virtually untraceable drone across borders with a payload, |
| 1:35.3 | it becomes abundantly clear that a new detection method is needed. And that's where the Alpha |
| 1:41.8 | project comes in. Alpha is an EU-H funded project which not only intends to find these low-flying objects, |
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