EMSA held second meeting of the EU Satellite-AIS Collaborative Forum
The second meeting of the EU Satellite-AIS Collaborative Forum took place at EMSA on 30 October 2013.
The forum is open to EU national administrations with a programme or interest in the development of a Sat-AIS capacity for non commercial purposes.
The current members of the forum are Norway, Denmark, Germany and Poland. The forum aims to foster the knowledge and expertise of Sat-AIS programmes and services in Europe.
It also aims to establish an EU Sat-AIS data service through the merging of national Sat-AIS data via EMSA. Germany announced that the launch of their first satellite (AISat) will take place in early 2014.
During the same period, Norway also hopes to launch their second satellite (AISSat-2).The third meeting is scheduled to be held in April 2014.
Source: EMSA