How Canada does basic air-breathing and non-air-breathing surveillance to monitor if someone belongs in their waters.
Additional surveillance services are provided through a contract arrangement with Provincial Airlines Limited. It supplies three specially modified and equipped Beechcraft King Air B200, ground support and other related services.
The aircraft are equipped with a full suite of surveillance equipment including:
A 200 mile, 360° search radar
Forward looking infrared (FLIR)
Tele-photo video cameras, a night time illumination system, and fully integrated data management systems.
Also:
Satellite Surveillance:
In 2008 DFO launched a pilot project using satellite imagery from Radarsat-2, a Canadian-owned space satellite that detected and photographed fishing vessels operating in the North Pacific. The project, offered with DND assistance through project Polar Epsilon, showed promising results in its ability to alert DFO of suspicious fishing activity – which was then investigated through fly-over inspection. Satellite surveillance may in future years become an increasingly important part of DFO’s enforcement arsenal.
H/T-Mark
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