MEDUSA for Belgium

OPTIMARE is pleased to announce that it has won a competitive bid to provide an airborne remote sensing system for the Belgian maritime surveillance aircraft ident. OO-MMM of type Britten-Norman BN2A-21 Islander.

The aircraft is used as a remote sensing platform to detect and document phenomena and activities occurring at the sea surface, in particular, discharges by ships.

OPTIMARE will, among others, provide its well-known airborne maritime surveillance system MEDUSA for enhanced mission management and upgrade the aircraft's Side-Looking Airborne Radar (SLAR) system. The Mission Management System comprises, among others, a new mission computer with the latest MEDUSA software as well as a new mission operator console.

The end user is the Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM) which is the 6th department of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. The aircraft is used by MUMM in the framework of the Belgian North Sea Aerial Survey program.

OPTIMARE considers its success in Belgium an important step in strengthening its market position in Europe. Within the last few years OPTIMARE provided systems for Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal. A new MEDUSA system will be delivered in conjunction with a Do 228NG to the German Navy in late 2011.

For further information please contact

Dr. Nils Robbe
EMail: remotesensing(at)optimare.de
Tel: +49 471 48361-0