SIREHNA to take part on the Life-Seadetect Project
SIREHNA has announced its involvement and contribution in a new collaborative project ‘LIFE-SeaDetect’, partly funded by the European LIFE program, to develop and demonstrate innovative solutions to significantly reduce the risk of collisions between vessels, cetaceans & UFOs. .
SIREHNA is fully engaged in this innovative project that will last until August 2026, as both work-package leader & affiliated as subsidiary of NAVAL GROUP.
Collisions between vessels and large cetaceans are the first danger for non-natural death for marine mammals that are currently listed as threatened in the IUCN Red List of endangered species. SIREHNA & NAVAL GROUP as well as all the partners involved into the consortium are looking into developing a functional and relevant solution in order to contribute to the reduction of these deadly collisions.
SEADETECT will achieve this very critical protection of cetaceans using 3 complementary systems:
- An on-board multi-sensors “DETECT BOX”: daylight color visible band camera + near-infrared band and thermal infrared band camera + LIDAR + RADAR and a data fusion and AI high-performance system to merge data and classify detection.
- A network of passive acoustic monitoring buoys to detect and geolocate marine mammals and allow the identification of protected corridors for vessels.
- REPCET (Solution developed by Miracetti, stakeholder of the project) to share the detection of whales and other obstacles with vessels present in the area. Obtained detections will feed REPCET sharing detection software to inform equipped vessels of the risk of collision.