PROJECT POLAR EPSILON: JOINT SPACE-BASEDWIDE AREA SURVEILLANCE AND SUPPORT CAPABILITY*

摘要

Project Polar Epsilon: Joint Space-Based Wide Area Surveillance and Support Capability, a capitalproject within Canada’s Defence program, will use Canada’s RADARSAT 2 as a contributing sensor andenable all-weather, dayight persistent surveillance of Canada’s Arctic region and ocean approaches.Project Polar Epsilon is a transformational initiative to introduce space-based wide area surveillance toCanadian Government marine surveillance stakeholders. Through RADARSAT 2, Polar Epsilon willprovide wide area domain awareness over Canada’s ocean approaches and Arctic region. Accordingly,much effort is being expended in algorithm development to innovate the potential of RADARSAT 2 for thesovereignty and surveillance mission. Capabilities that are being developed and which will bedemonstrated during the definition phase of the project include: land surveillance of Canada’s ArcticRegion via change detection techniques; ship detection; environmental sensing and ocean intelligence;direct satellite reception and processing; near-real time dissemination; and mission planning tools forsatellite selection