Collaboration on integrating satellite detection to daily track dark fleet

Dark vessel activity, AIS manipulation and GNSS interference can create significant gaps in the conventional maritime picture. Satellite detection becomes especially valuable when AIS signals alone cannot tell the whole story.

Airbus, an aerospace and space technology specialist, and global trade intelligence provider Kpler have signed a strategic agreement to deliver daily satellite vessel detection, providing customers with the ability to verify vessel movements independently of AIS.

The service will detect vessels independently of their AIS signal, whether they stop transmitting, spoofed their position, or had their positioning disrupted by GNSS interference.

Using Airbus’s SPOT Earth observation satellites, the service captures daily high-resolution imagery; at 1.5-metre resolution with a 60-kilometre swath, with advanced artificial intelligence, to detect vessels at sea and in port.

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