Tag: drones

The Italian Coast Guard has been deploying EMSA’s remotely piloted aircraft to gain increased maritime awareness over the Gulf of Genoa since 16 June.

The Icelandic Coast Guard is using EMSA’s remotely piloted aircraft services from on board their patrol vessels to enhance maritime situational awareness for an array of different operational tasks.

Since the beginning of May EMSA RPAS have been flying over the East Baltic Sea region following a coordinated request for enhanced maritime surveillance from the Finnish Border Guard, the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board and the Latvian Coast Guard Service.

DFDS is introducing a drone support system as part of the equipment on commercial ships. The drone system will support the captains onboard when docking and sailing in narrow waters.

Romanian national authorities have been using EMSA RPAS to conduct flights over the Black Sea region from a base in Mangalia.

From Cap Gris-Nez on the Pas-de-Calais coast in the north of France, EMSA remotely piloted aircraft (RPAS) are being used to measure sulphur and nitrogen emissions from ships operating in the Emission Control Area (ECA) of the North Sea and English Channel.

From mid-May EMSA Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) are flying from Denmark’s northernmost town Skagen, offering enhanced maritime surveillance.

TotalEnergies, an energy company, has launched a worldwide drone-based emissions detection and quantification campaign across all its upstream Oil & Gas operated sites.

Defuzzy Labs, a robotics company in the UAE, collaborated with SubUAS to demonstrate its robotics fleet management solution and shed light on the future of offshore inspections.

The European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), along with the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, is conducting a large-scale emissions monitoring campaign using remotely piloted aircraft, scheduled to begin later this month.