Stradar — Multimedia Dispatcher and Teleinformation System for the Border Guard

Abstract

Security of national borders requires utilization of multimedia surveillance systems automatically gathering, processing and sharing various data. The paper presents such a system developed for the Maritime Division of the Polish Border Guard within the STRADAR project. The system, apart from providing communication means, gathers data, such as map data from AIS, GPS and radar receivers, videos and photos from camera or audio from phone calls and SMS messages, from multiple mobile units and stationary points located along the coastline. All gathered data can be visualized on a multidisplay by the personnel that can dynamically select presented data and configure form of presentation. The paper describes system functionalities, its hardware and software implementation, and presents results of acceptance tests that the system have recently passed.

Emulator and Simulator of Term a SCANTER and ARPA Radar Data Server

“…The presented software will be used to test new functionalities of the multimedia surveillance system implemented for PBG within the STRADAR project [1].…”

“…The aim of the STRADAR system [1], developed for the Maritime Division of the Polish Border Guard (PBG), is to generate tasks for visualization of different types of data and present them in the Event Visualization Post (EVP), which includes a multi-display high-resolution screen. Each visualization task can contain ongoing or archival video from cameras, audio (telephone calls), SMS, files/photos or map data.…”

Radar Data Fusion in the Stradar System

“…Currently the system gathers position data from Automatic Identification System (AIS), Global Positioning System (GPS) and Automatic Radar Plotting Aids (ARPA). The STRADAR system collects also video and photos from cameras installed on BG's Mobile Units (MUs) and in Observation Points (OPs), audio data including phone calls received by the BG's officers as well as SMSs and exchanged data files [2,4]. The system is accessed by the operators from stationary consoles or mobile console on MU.…”

“…The system is accessed by the operators from stationary consoles or mobile console on MU. The overall situation awareness can by visualized and monitored on a high resolution multiscreen display (EVP) [1,2,4].…”

“…Hardware and software implementation of the STRADAR system with presentation of acceptance tests performed under the supervision of the gestor, i.e. the Polish Border Guard, are presented in [1,2].…”