Oil spill detection radar and
system integration –
experiences and challenges
KEMI ARCTIC 2015
March 24 th - 26 th, 2015
Finnish summer – very shiny and no ice !
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Finnish winter – very dark and always ice !
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Ice condition in Baltic Sea in February
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Oil recovery conditions - foggy and rainy
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Oil recovery conditions – windy and stormy
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OSD challenges
 Weather and enviroment conditions
 What is the spill coverage
 What is the spill volume
 Where is the most of the spill volume
 How to coordinate the recovery with many
vessels
 How to get all data from all ships to leader ship
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Furuno OSD solution between the ships
- Thermal camera videos
- Local recording
- Video transfer
Shared data network
- Weather
data
- Oil recovery
data
Master ship
- Oil radar polygons
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- Boom vessel
controls
- Navigation
data
- Oil recovery
route planning
Furuno Oil Spill Detection System onboard
AIS
Furuno
radar
Oil radar
FOIL-200
Oil
detection
Ethernet
Chart
processor
FFSS-400
Control
unit
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Video and
controls
Furuno OSD onboard integration
 Furuno IMO navigation radar
 High performance navigation picture
 Furuno Finland FOIL-200 Oil Radar
 High performance oil detection
 Furuno Finland FFSS-400 Surveillance Station
 Key unit for integration
 Low light and Thermal camera
 High performance low light cameras
 Cooled and Uncooled thermal cameras
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FICE-100 Ice and FOIL-200 Oil Radar concept
 Add-on computer to an existing navigation radar
 Raw data from navigation radar transceiver
 processes the data to generate an ice or oil image
X-band
IMO radar
Radar raw video
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Ice/Oil radar
processor
FICE-100 Ice Radar and FOIL-200 Oil Radar
Common properties
 Radars do not interfere with the IMO navigation
radar
 Can be installed onboard vessels or stable
platforms
 Special software algorithms are used to create
the high performance images
 User can take screenshots and record raw video
 Saved in external hard disc or memory stick for future
evaluation or training purposes
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FFSS-400 Surveillance Station
 Efficient chart engine for official ENC charts
 Navigation IMO radar integration
 Radar echoes display
 Radar control to track new ARPA targets
 Situational picture creation
 Radar tracks
 AIS tracks
 Manual targets
 External targets
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FFSS-400 Surveillance Station
 Oil Spill Detections
 Oil radar detected polygons display
 Camera direction and zoom sector indication
 Camera video display
 Change between small and big window
 Camera control
 Manual control
 Automatic tracking of selected target
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FFSS-400 Surveillance Station
 Recording and playback functionalities
 Workstation display is automatically recorded
 Camera videos are automatically recorded
 Recorded screenshots and videos can be exported
as encrypted files or as data to external systems
 Integration to the external systems
 Onshore OSD applications
 Onshore surveilance applications
 Targets
 Camera videos
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Furuno Finland - total turnkey supplier
 Navigation system solution
 Design, testing and delivery
 DP solution
 Integration with Nav and OSD
 OSD system solution
 Including oil boom vessel control
 Communication solution
 GMDSS, V-SAT, Inmarsat
=> One supplier, benefit for the customer
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Thank you for your attention!
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