Vigilance joins AIRBEAM project
January 2012
Vigilance B.V. will participate in the AIRborne Information for Emergency situation Awareness and Monitoring (AIRBEAM) project together with 20 European companies and organizations. AIRBEAM is a Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project related to crisis management (natural disasters and other wide-scale crises). The goal is to develop a multi-platform approach to situational awareness for crisis management, utilizing especially Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), aerostats and satellites.
The AIRBEAM project proposes a situation awareness toolbox for the management of crisis over wide area taking benefit of an optimized set of aerial (unmanned) platforms, including satellites. The number of unmanned air- and space-borne platform available and their associated sensors present a new set of challenges to end users involved in the effective management of emergencies and actions of law enforcement.
Within the scope of crisis management, the project intends to provide official public users from each Member States with the means to specify their own needs and to assess the technical solutions provided by unmanned aerial platforms. Through intense collaboration between industrial partners, stakeholders and end users, AIRBEAM will define an ambitious yet realistic concept of use. By running scenarios that will be properly selected and defined by the end-users within the project in a simulated environment, the increased capabilities for situation awareness will be assessed methodically. Various platform and sensor mixes will be compared using key performance indicators among which is cost effectiveness.
Live demonstrations with multiple civil unmanned and manned aerial platforms will complete these ground simulation exercises in demonstrating to end users the potential and maturity of the coordinated use of multiple platforms.
Vigilance B.V. will participate in the AIRborne Information for Emergency situation Awareness and Monitoring (AIRBEAM) project together with 20 European companies and organizations. AIRBEAM is a Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project related to crisis management (natural disasters and other wide-scale crises). The goal is to develop a multi-platform approach to situational awareness for crisis management, utilizing especially Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), aerostats and satellites.
The AIRBEAM project proposes a situation awareness toolbox for the management of crisis over wide area taking benefit of an optimized set of aerial (unmanned) platforms, including satellites. The number of unmanned air- and space-borne platform available and their associated sensors present a new set of challenges to end users involved in the effective management of emergencies and actions of law enforcement.
Within the scope of crisis management, the project intends to provide official public users from each Member States with the means to specify their own needs and to assess the technical solutions provided by unmanned aerial platforms. Through intense collaboration between industrial partners, stakeholders and end users, AIRBEAM will define an ambitious yet realistic concept of use. By running scenarios that will be properly selected and defined by the end-users within the project in a simulated environment, the increased capabilities for situation awareness will be assessed methodically. Various platform and sensor mixes will be compared using key performance indicators among which is cost effectiveness.
Live demonstrations with multiple civil unmanned and manned aerial platforms will complete these ground simulation exercises in demonstrating to end users the potential and maturity of the coordinated use of multiple platforms.