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Technology for target detection on a maritime field

One of the most complicated fields, if not the most of all, for video analytics is the maritime field. For efficient region monitoring, as land region, we establish the normal situation of the initial constant image and then look for changes that are related to the normal situation.

However, in maritime land there isn’t an initial constant image due to sea-waves movements which frequently cause changes to the normal situation. More than that, if we ignore the sea-waves movements in order to avoid false alarms, we will not be able to detect swimmers, vessels or any other target in the maritime zone due to the problematic terrain.

Swimmer and small boat detection.

Magna BSP developed a special application detecting various maritime targets such as swimmers, vessels, boats, etc.

The application is based on the human vision system. Each system is combined of a pair of cameras (day or/and thermal) that create a 3D vision with all the additional parameters (distance, velocity, size, height from the ground and more) and a sophisticated software that uses these parameters for full detection and at the same time filters false alarms.

After a long development process, Magna succeeded in creating a sea wave model that can give alerts on a swimmer within hundreds of metres with very high reliability. The detection ability is so advanced that only a floating head is enough for detection by the system. In addition, the application is effective for land intruders that walk on breakwaters (the system filters waves that crash on the breakwater and detects the real targets).

Intruder detection on a breakwater.

Magna BSP has dozens of operational systems in maritime and land fields which create hermetic seal from penetration attempts on any possible direction. The systems have been deployed all over the world since 2008 – see real-time detection photos on a maritime field, these photos were taken from operational systems at high-sensitivity sites.

Swimmer detection on a maritime border.

Magna’s systems can be operated on seaports, sea borders, nuclear reactors, drilling facilities and any site with maritime interface.

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