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1 KONGSBERG SATELLITE SERVICES 2017 Line Steinbakk, Director Programs Himmel og hav - Ålesund 3. Oktober 2017

2 KSAT HQ IN TROMSØ 69N Established in 1967 Kongsberg Satellite Services since 2002 World leading commercial satellite center Don t own satellites virtual constellation 28-Sep-17 / 2 /

3 24/7 Operations Center 28-Sep-17 / 3 /

4 Svalbard 78 North 28-Sep-17 WORLD CLASS through people, technology and dedication / 4 /

5 Troll, Antarctica 72 South

6 Global Integrated Network WORLD CLASS - through people, technology and dedication Page 6

7 Maritime Monitoring - Near Real time Services Oil Spill Vessel Ice edge /Ice berg Multi-mission Data WORLD CLASS - through people, technology and dedication Page 7

8 Main Characteristics of Radar Sensors Active sensor Acquisition independent of sun light => operate in darkness Penetrate clouds Wide Coverage Sun-synchronous orbits Sentinel 1A :54 28-Sep-17 / 8 /

9 Radar (SAR) versus Optical satellite images Synthetic Aperture RADAR mostly used C-band 5 Ghz 5 cm wavelength X-band 9 Ghz 3 cm wavelength Penetrates cloud cover, day or night Oil coats water surface, disrupts ocean backscatter creating dead zone for RADAR wave reflection - outlines slick Need only 40L of oil or produced water for detection wind 2-12 m/s Oil Spill Detection Page 9

10 18 meter resolution Trade-off between geographical coverage and resolution 28-Sep-17 WORLD CLASS through people, technology and dedication / 10 /

11 Oil Spill Detection Developed in Norway from 1995 Early warning and emergency support - Time critical Document operations Illegal dumping in shipping lanes, identification of source Coordinating flight & other surveillance means 29-Sep-17 / 11 /

12 29-Sep-17 WORLD CLASS through people, technology and dedication / 12 /

13 29-Sep-17 WORLD CLASS through people, technology and dedication / 13 /

14 SAR wind Low pressure system north of Tromsø MacDONALD, DETTWILER AND ASSOCIATES LTD., 2017 All Rights Reserved Radarsat :10UTC 2-Oct-17 WORLD CLASS through people, technology and dedication / 14 /

15 Remote sensing by satellite Norway Norwegian Clean Seas Association for Operating Companies Norwegian Clean Seas Association for Operating Companies Daily coverage Example of coverage one week 3-5 images per week

16 Example Norwegian Continental Shelf Sentinel 1A 29 April 17:19 UTC Cosmo-Skymed :14 UTC Landsat Sentinel-2A :06 UTC / 16 / 2-Oct-17 WORLD CLASS through people, technology and dedication

17 Emergency support Saturday Aug. 12, 2017 photo released by Kuwait Environment Public Authority 28-Sep-17 WORLD CLASS through people, technology and dedication / 17 /

18 KSAT Vessel detection Multi mission, Near Real-time Semi-automatic approach Algorithm: CFAR thresholding Analyst validate/add/remove targets Detections are correlated with AIS (and other VMS systems) Satellite AIS

19 WORLD CLASS - through people, technology and dedication Page 19

20 Vessel Size and SAR Detection Capability Resolution Incidence angle Build material Radar Cross Section Wind/waves 28-Sep-17 WORLD CLASS through people, technology and dedication / 20 /

21 Satellite sensor tradeoff: Coverage vs resolution 300 km swath 50 m resolution 50 km swath 8 m resolution 20 km swath Optical 0,5 m resolution DLR 2014, Distribution ASTRIUM SERVICES / Infoterra GmbH, all rights reserved RADARSAT-2 Data and Products MacDONALD, DETTWILER AND ASSOCIATES LTD., 2011 All Rights Reserved RADARSAT is an official mark of the Canadian Space Agency

22 Radar (SAR) versus Optical satellite images 1 m TSX Spotligth DLR 2014, Distribution ASTRIUM SERVICES / Infoterra GmbH, all rights reserved DLR 2014, Distribution ASTRIUM SERVICES / Infoterra GmbH, all rights reserved Page 22

23 Multi-Mission NRT Vessel Detection Russian Northern Fleet «going south»

24 RADARSAT :46:58UTC ScanSAR Narrow A (VV/VH)

25 Delivery Time and Repeat Coverage Antenna coverage and In-house processing are the key to meet NRT demands Radarsat-2 Sentinel-1a and Sentinel-1b TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X CosmoSkyMed Constellation PAZ (mid 2018) Future missions to meet tomorrows needs

26 NewSpace is coming! Cheaper Satellites More Satellites Constellations New Business Models Cheaper Services More Antennas More Locations Cheaper Launchers New Competitors More Data New Products Better Availability Consumer Oriented Cloud Based

27 MicroSAR System Norwegian Initiative Project managed by Space Norway Tailored for Maritime monitoring Expected launch late 2018 Optimized for ship detection: 4m resolution Approx. 200 km swath Constellation 10 (TBD) satellite constellation deployed in 2019/2020 Approx. 3 hour average revisit frequency 1 Hour 2 Hours 2 Hours 3 Hours 28-Sep-17 WORLD CLASS through people, technology and dedication / 27 /

28 WORLD CLASS THROUGH PEOPLE, TECHNOLOGY AND DEDICATION

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