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Welcome EV1 to the exactView™ Constellation
On July 22, exactEarth launched the latest satellite into the exactView™ constellation. EV1 (formerly known as ADS1B) was successfully deployed from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. EV1 is the highest detection performance Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite ever built and will utilize high-speed S-band and C-band communications to frequently downlink information to ground stations in Svalbard, Norway, Guildford, UK and several other locations around the world.
exactEarth is pioneering space-based AIS services that increases the range, enabling the monitoring of vessels throughout the World’s oceans. EV1 was built under contract for exactEarth and is the fifth deployed satellite in our advanced vessel monitoring satellite constellation. COM DEV Canada acted as prime contractor and COM DEV Europe(UK) supplied the advanced AIS transceiver payload system for this mission.
"This launch marks another important step in the ongoing expansion of our global vessel monitoring service," said Peter Mabson, President of exactEarth. “EV1 will help ensure that exactEarth will continue to provide the world’s most comprehensive and high performance satellite-based AIS service for years to come."
For more information about the launch, check out our EV1 webpage. Also be sure to visit our Facebook page for a complete album of launch pictures as well as check out our YouTube Channel for video coverage of the launch from Kazakhstan.
In ThisIssue
PAGE 2 Contract Spotlight
• New Agreement with NATO• Partnering with Vessel.Tracker.com• EMSA Renews Agreement
PAGE 3 Tech Talk
• Technology Update: exactAIS Premium™• What Will EV1 Mean to You?• exactAIS Arctic Archive™
PAGE 4 Company News
• Upcoming Events• Meet our Staff• New exactEarth videos on YouTube
exactEarth Data Contributes to RIMPAC Exercises
RIMPAC (The Rim of the Pacific) 2012 combined and joint exercise took place near the Hawaiian Islands from June 29 to August 3 2012 . Click here for more information on the RIMPAC exercises.
exactEarth contributed exactAIS into the space-based Maritime Domain Awareness picture with a feed to the central command (Hawaii) as part of the Canadian Force's contribution to RIMPAC. The Canadian Forces sent over100 personnel to joint positions ranging from the leader-ship level to logistical support within the RIMPAC 2012 exercise.
Satellite AIS is of great use as part of this operational exercise as it contributes to space based Maritime Domain Awareness. Completing an accurate and comprehensive picture of the world’s shipping activity is crucial to ensuring maritime safety.
The EV1 Satellite
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exactEarth Wins Contract with NATONATO represents the interests of 28 member states from North America and Europe and is dedicated to safeguarding the freedom and security of its member countries by political and military means. exactEarth is very excited with this contract win as exactAIS data will play a crucial role in crisis management and peacekeeping efforts made by NATO.
The NATO Maritime Operation Centres (MOC Northwood and MOC Naples) and NATO Shipping Centre (NSC) will be acquiring exactAIS® data to be used within Operation Ocean Shield, a counter-piracy operation in the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden and Somali Basin, consisting of naval vessels from NATO nations as well as elements ashore. exactAIS data will also be used in support of Operation Active Endeavour, NATO’s maritime counter-
terrorism operation in the Mediterranean.
The NATO Shipping Centre at Northwood is NATO’s gateway to the merchant shipping community, and NATO will actively warn vessels in the vicinity of known Pirate Attack Group (PAG) activity. Once PAG movement has been identified, exactAIS data can be used to identify vessels in the vicinity to assist. NATO will utilize exactAIS data to create a picture of white shipping and to aid in identifying suspicious behaviour, contributing to their overall Recognized Maritime Picture (RMP).
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EMSA Renews Service Level Agreement with exactEarthThe European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) have recently renewed their service level agreement for Satellite AIS data with exactEarth. EMSA have utilized exactAIS® data over the last year for a number of projects including use within EMSA’s Maritime Surveillance Picture (MARSURV) service, Project INDALO, EUNAVFOR counter-piracy operations as well as within the European Fishery Control Agency (EFCA).
exactAIS data played an integral role in supporting Project INDALO with Frontex (European Border Management Agency) for establishing measures around illegal immigration in the Mediterranean Sea and more generally for controlling the maritime external borders of the European Member States. The EUNAVFOR Naval counter-piracy operations relied on exactAIS data to help improve maritime security off the coast of Somalia and in the Indian Ocean by providing a better picture for overall maritime domain awareness in these areas.
exactEarth Partners with VesselTracker.com
exactEarth is very pleased to announce a new partnership agreement with VesselTracker GmbH, a leading provider of global coastal AIS data and maritime information. Under this agreement, VesselTracker is marketing services deploying exactAIS® satellite data into the global commercial applications market through their world-leading web services platform. VesselTracker currently sell to a wide range of markets such as Port Authorities, Fleet Management, Insurance and Ship Brokering. This deal will enable VesselTracker to fully globalize their service, providing visibility into ship movements out of the range of existing coastal stations. A new custom data solution will be available to provide a wide variety of solutions based on XML Web Service data delivery that can suit specific customer requirements.
"We are excited to sign this deal with VesselTracker” said Peter Mabson, President of exactEarth. “This agreement is great step forward for exactEarth and means a whole new set of customers worldwide will now have access to our exactAIS data and will see the value of truly global coverage of maritime traffic. We see this as a new chapter in the evolution of Satellite AIS and look forward to working even more closely with VesselTracker in the future to deliver premium services to our joint markets.”
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Technology Update: Announcing exactAIS Premium™ exactEarth recently announced the unveiling of our newest service, exactAIS Premium.
The exactAIS Premium service fuses exactAIS® satellite and terrestrial-based sources to provide a single provisioning of global AIS data, eliminating the need to de-conflict AIS data from multiple sources.
This new service has many great application features including:
• Single Source Data Set• Complete Berth-to-Berth tracking capa• Easily integrated into other existing platforms• Overall enhanced maritime picture
For more information on this and other products, please visit our website or watch our exactAIS Premium Movie here.
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Cool O� This Summer with exactAIS Arctic Archive™The Arctic Region is warming at roughly twice the global average rate with the reduction in summer sea ice being both one of the clearest indicators and one of the most dramatic effects of this trend. Shipping in the Arctic is on the increase as the sea ice retreats further each year and the region opens up to further industrial development. The Arctic has traditionally proved problematic in capturing a true picture of the area’s shipping. The remoteness and environmental factors have contributed to minimal and traditionally imprecise coverage in the area.
The exactAIS® system has exceptional coverage in the Arctic region, capturing every vessel movement to create a truly complete maritime picture of the area. exactEarth now offers exactAIS Arctic Archive, providing an unprecedented view into shipping in the remote Arctic region. Data has been processed and summarized from exactEarth’s extensive archive and is now available in annual sets covering July-October of 2010 and 2011.
For more information, click here.
What Will EV1 Mean to You?The successful launch of EV1 expands exactEarth’s constellation of satellites to four. EV1 is the highest performance AIS detection satellite ever placed into orbit. “We are very excited to bring this new satellite into service and introduce improvements
to our customers,” said Phil Miller, VP of Engineering. “During the next several months the satellite will be commissioned as we check out all of its systems, take measurements and calibrate the instruments and sensors on board. We will also begin to receive AIS data and ensure that it achieves the performance that it was designed to deliver. After commissioning is complete, we will introduce the AIS messages it collects to our line- up of exactAIS® products.”
With the addition of EV1, our customers will see the following improvements to our services:
• Improvements in First Pass Detection (FPD). When EV1 flies over the dense shipping regions of the world, it will detect more ships in a single pass than any other satellite launched to date. All previous systems take multiple passes over these regions to detect most ships whereas EV1 will do it the first time.
• A variety of regions around the world can expect to see significant improvements in ship detection rates.
• The maximum gap between subsequent detection of individual ships (a.k.a. revisit time) will decrease.
Complete Berth-to-Berth tracking
Tracking of Canadian Arctic Shipping in 2011 by Zone
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exactEarth in Action Our Senior Director of Maritime Products, Peggy Browning recently attended an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) meeting, where permission was granted to use six new channels for dedicated AIS tracking channels (24, 84, 25, 85, 26 and 86), on an experimental basis, and channels 27 and 28 for additional AIS communications. IALA will need to develop a plan for using the new channels and the meeting took the first step into defining how e-NAV will answer and solve user requirements identified by the IMO.
exactEarth exhibited recently at the Esri User Conference in July in San Diego. We had our most successful Pin the Sail on the Ship™ competition to date and we were pleased to announce our winner- Major Ulrich Senger of the Swedish Forces. Congratulations!
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Meet the exactEarth TeamArunas Macikunas has been with exactEarth full time for over a year and half as Director of Systems Engineering, and had earlier supported new technology development while working at COM DEV in the 1990s and other Canadian industries since then. Formally trained as an electrical engineer, he pursued post-graduate studies in digital
signal processing, radar and communications systems.
Arunas has found it to be a very rewarding experience to be part of the technology development for the exactEarth business since its infancy, and to continue to participate in maintaining exactEarth’s leading-edge technology. “Micro-space technology has made such exciting opportunities possible in years rather than decades.”
On a personal side, Arunas has many interests including photography, amateur radio and anything involving computers, electronics and technology. In his spare time he enjoys tennis, skiing and travelling with his family.
Getting to Know Arunas:
1) Who's your favourite cartoon character, and why?A: Wile E. Coyote, he is persistent, creative, focused, and
indestructible2) What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?
A: Ice cream made with ants for flavoring3) Would you rather be invisible or be able to read minds?
A: I think reading minds would be more fun4) Is a picture really worth a thousand words?
A: Yes, definitely!
Upcoming EventsDon’t miss your opportunity to experience exactAIS® live. exactEarth will be showcasing exactAIS at the following upcoming events:
New Videos on the exactEarth YouTube Channel
exactEarth has created our own YouTube channel for all of our latest videos and data demonstrations. We are currently featuring new product videos for our latest additions to the exactAIS product line, exactAIS PremiumTM and exactAIS Arctic ArchiveTM. Click here to watch the full videos and learn how exactEarth is changing the face of Satellite AIS technology.
exactEarth is a data services company based in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada and is supported by an established network of regional offices and technology partners worldwide. To learn more about exactEarth, or to set up an evaluation of our global vessel monitoring service, please contact [email protected] or +1 519-622-4445
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You can also visit our website for a detailed calendar of events with all of exactEarth’s upcoming shows.