Estonia's L 410 aircraft
The airborne maritime surveillance system delivered to Estonia has now passed its final flight tests.
The Swedish Space Corporation has successfully participated in the final acceptance testing of the L 410 aircraft after it has gone through a major upgrade at Aircraft Industries in Czech Republic. The final acceptance was made in Estonia, and the procedure comprised flight testing over Estonian waters.
“The MSS 6000 system will greatly enhance our capabilities to protect the Estonian marine environment”, says Allan Oksmann, Chief of the Estonian Border Guard Aviation Group.
“We are proud to work with the Estonian Border Guard and Aircraft Industries, and we are confident that this is the beginning of a long term relation for securing the surveillance for the protection of the Estonian waters and environment”, says Heike Schneider, Project Manager at SSC.
The aircraft has been in operation in Estonia for some years, but for the first time it has been equipped with state-of-the-art remote sensing equipment and an integrated mission management system. SSC's system MSS 6000 is continuing to defend its position as the leading, dedicated maritime surveillance system for coast guard and marine police work.
For further information please contact Ms. Heike Schneider, tel. +46 8 627 62 74 or e-mail airbornesystems@ssc.se
Facts
The MSS 6000 for the Estonian Border Guard Aviation Group is a fully integrated system including SLAR (Side-Looking Airborne Radar), IR/UV (Infrared/ Ultraviolet) scanner, FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared), Search, surveillance and weather avoidance radar, still and video cameras, AIS (Automatic Identification System), DGPS, high-speed satellite data link and direction finder. Information from the sensors will be accessible from the operator console. It is displayed in real time and is tightly integrated with a tactical map. The map will contain the current aircraft position and time marks on the flight track. The map image has a large number of operator selectable overlays such as background information (territorial borders, economic zone borders, protected areas etc.), geo corrected overlays from SLAR, IR/UV, AIS information, observation and target notes, notes on location of captured images from cameras. All information from the mission is saved and can be compiled in mission reports and/or sent on to ground station and other units. |