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e-GEOS Maritime Surveillance services reveal routes and positions of pirated vessels

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First Activation – Rosalia D’Amato

On April 22nd, 2011 the vessel Rosalia D’Amato was attacked by pirates in the Arabic Sea.
The Italian bulk carrier, with a crew of 21 – 6 Italians and 15 Filipinos – was on its way to Iran from Brazil when it came under attack, approximately 365nm Southeast of Salalah, Oman.

Triggering entity: Italian Coast Guard

  • e-GEOS was activated by the Italian Coast Guard (specifically the Head of Operational Centre, I.M.R.C.C. – Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre – , Captain Leopoldo Manna and his staff Walter Conti and Dario Cau) in the framework of the G-MOSAIC Rapid Gespatial Reporting Service to monitorthe vessel route using both optical and radar satellite images.
  • e-GEOS immediately planned and acquired Cosmo-SkyMed and IKONS images along the expected route provided by the IT Coast Guard, detecting the vessel in different locations.

Second Activation – Savina Caylyn

Event description:
On February 8th, 2011 the vessel Savina Caylyn was attacked by pirates in the Arabic Sea.
On May 6th, 2011 the vessel was moved toward another port
Triggering entity: Italian Coast Guard

  • e-GEOS was activated by the Italian Coast Guard in the framework of MARitime Security Service project (MARISS), and continued its activity within G-MOSAIC Rapid Gespatial Reporting Service to monitor vessel route using both optical and radar satellite images.
  • e-GEOS immediately planned and acquired a Cosmo-SkyMed and GeoEye images along the expected route estimated by e-GEOS on the basis of information provided by IT Coast Guard, detecting the vessel in different locations.

24 /7 /2011

This map was produced by the G_MOSAIC Rapid Geospatial Reporting Service (RGR).
The location of the “SAVINA CAYLIN” vessel and of other vessels is reported in different times on july 24th – 26 th , 2011. The location of “SAVINA CAYLIN” VESSEL CLOSE TO THE Somalian coast has been provided as an external information by the Italian Coast Guard. The vessel position is stationary. Some other vessel has been identified close to the Somalian coast, Detailed zoom boxes provide a closer view of the detected vessels, exploiting the high resolution of the GeoEye image (0,5 m), IKONOS (1m and COSMOSkyMed Spotlight image (1m). Image analysis was performed by eGEOS.

24 /7 /2011

This map was produced by the G_MOSAIC Rapid Geospatial Reporting Service (RGR).
The location of the Rosalia D’Amato vessel is reported in different dates. The vessel position is stationary. The location of “Rosalia D’Amato” vessel close to the Somalian coast has been provided as an external information by the Italian Coast Guard. Other vessels have been identified close to the Somalian coast, a possible location of storage of vessels attacked by oirates. Detailed zoom boxes provide a closer view of the coastal area, exploting the high resolution of the GeoEye-1 image (0,5m). Image Analysis was performed by e-GEOS

Source e-GEOS