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SUMMARY

One of the longest-running projects undertaken by the european Defence Agency ( EDA ), the Maritime Surveillance ( MARSUR ) visualize is a technical solution that allows dialogue between european nautical information systems. Containing 19 Member States plus Norway, the project aims to improve the park “ Recognised Maritime Picture ” by facilitating substitute of operational maritime information and services such as ship positions, tracks, identification data, old world chat or images .

Goals

• Allow dialog between European maritime information systems
• Improve the common “Recognised Maritime Picture” by facilitating exchange of operational maritime information and services such as ship positions, tracks, identification data, chat or images.

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

Maritime Situational Awareness ( MSA ) is the effective understanding of activities, associated with and occurring in the nautical sphere that could impact on the security, safety and environment of the European Union and its Member States .
Following a tax by the EU-Defence Ministers in deep 2005, EDA launched in September 2006 the Maritime Surveillance project ( MARSUR ), with the aim to create a network using existing naval and nautical information commute systems. overall goals are to avoid duplication of feat and the use of available technologies, data and information, to enhance cooperation in a elementary, efficient and low-cost solution for military and civil cooperation, and to support base hit and security .
After extensive work by fifteen Member States the project came to a decisive sharpen as it entered the end of the demonstration phase for a basic MARSUR-Network. The know demonstration during the Distinguished Visitors Day ( DV-Day ) on 30 June 2011 was using the connections between independent systems from Italy, Finland, France, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Spain and Sweden. The wax achiever clearly proved the capabilities of the choose federated system-of-systems approach.

On the 27th October 2011 Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, signed the Technical Agreement ( TA ) for the MARSUR LIVE PHASE, followed by Bulgaria, Latvia and Norway ( in 2012 ), EU SATCEN ( in 2017 ), Malta and EDA ( in 2018 ) and Slovenia ( in 2019 ). The MARSUR LIVE PHASE aims to further develop a capability that fulfils the indigence of nautical surveillance data share and network whilst maximizing interoperability and calibration. It is based on the demonstration Network, as delivered by the 10-CAP-08 “ MARSUR Networking – Architecture experiment ” EDA contract .
MARSUR Networking improves what among naval personnel is called the “ Recognised Maritime Picture ”, i.e. a consolidate, affirm painting including civilian vessels, the alleged white ship. The greet nautical photograph is a key element for Maritime Situational Awareness which is the basis for any nautical operation. MARSUR Networking therefore enhances the maritime security of the participating nations .
The setting of the MARSUR LIVE PHASE ranges from the Basic Level with the substitute of national point of touch information with the purpose of manually sharing maritime surveillance information to the Advanced Level of information exchange. While the Basic Level is mandate for all participants, the Advanced Level including the automatize exchange of data obtained through national analysis of information, according to applicable home regulations is not however in full implemented. The MARSUR Management Group has decided in May 2016 to pursue the execution of the Advanced Level for all participants adenine soon as potential ideally within three years .
The main objective of MARSUR is to contribute, pursuant to national laws and regulations, to security, safety and auspices of the environment in the maritime domain and improve maritime situational awareness, produce and partake maritime situational awareness information, improve interoperability and co-operation between EU military and civilian nautical authorities and other international nautical actors.

On 28 October 2014 the developed MARSUR Exchange System ( MEXS 2.0 ) was introduced into the operational MARSUR LIVE PHASE during the main event at the EURONAVAL, Le Bourget, Paris, France .
As the MARSUR Networking was designed to support CSDP operations from the begin, EDA has decided to promote the habit of the MARSUR network in support the CSDP Operation SOPHIA. For this aim, EDA has sponsored the trail of MARSUR Operators and Technicians in a Workshop in January 2017 in Rome and has sponsored and supported the lead of a capability demonstration at the EUNAVFORMED OHQ for the Operation SOPHIA in May 2017. This capability demonstration included a mobile MARSUR component to demonstrate the potential use of MARSUR as a Maritime Situational Awareness tool deployed on a Force HQ afloat directly connected to the OHQ .
On 06 December 2016, 15 of the participating members agreed on a stick out Arrangement ( PA ) “ MARSUR II – Adaptive Maintenance ” to ensure Advanced Level exchange of information and adaptive alimony of the MARSUR hardware and software for the period 2017-2019. In August 2019 the contributing members agreed to extend the adaptive alimony with one year till the end of 2020.

In August 2019 the next translation of the MARSUR Exchange System ( MEXS 3.0 ) was agreed and will replace the existing software .
As of September 2019, Bulgaria is in the concluding steps of joining the PA and implement MARSUR Advanced Level, while Croatia is in the national staff process for signing the TA and joining the MARSUR residential district .
MARSUR is intended to serve as a military layer of the EU Common Information Sharing Environment ( CISE ) .