Wide area surveillance
Context - Border and coastal airborne Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) missions
When it comes to wide and critical-area surveillance, security organizations must be able to prevent potential threats, mitigate security breaches and protect citizens as well as critical assets. Wide-area surveillance, such as border and coastal surveillance, is a critical component of modern homeland security and sovereignty strategies, enabling organizations to detect, identify and mitigate potential threats across vast and often remote regions.
In the context of rising geopolitics and economics tensions, these areas demand enhanced ISR capabilities to combat illegal trafficking and other unlawful activities. So, how can SIGINT solutions support effective surveillance of wide areas, and support coordination of security forces to deploy agents and resources in the safest and most efficient way possible ?
These zones often reach thousands of kilometers and are exposed to a wide range of threats, from illegal crossings and trafficking to security breaches. Monitoring these vast and strategically important areas with limited resources requires cutting-edge solutions that deliver precision, to ensure no threat goes undetected.
Challenges
Monitoring wide areas with limited resources
The primary challenge for border monitoring units is to achieve persistent surveillance in large open spaces while rapidly identifying and classifying potential risks. Effective border and coastal monitoring require systems that can adapt to dynamic environments, provide real-time intelligence, and monitor wide areas quickly and accurately.
Get the big picture of your tactical situation
Security organizations need flexible and high-performance solutions that ensure precise, complete, and rapid tactical situational awareness. When a threat is detected, they must be able to seamlessly pivot from broad surveillance to in-depth analysis, gaining deeper insights into the situation of interest. This requires advanced equipment capable of delivering accurate, actionable intelligence while maintaining coverage over wide areas to provide a comprehensive tactical picture. They need both detailed, high-precision intelligence and wide-area coverage, ensuring that no critical threat goes unnoticed, with the ability to gain immediate visual confirmation of potential risks.
Ensuring mission flexibility
The wide range of missions and risks that coast guards and border guards' organizations have to deal with requires them to be equipped with versatile platforms and modular solutions. Operators should be able to onboard multiple payloads to ensure effective and global monitoring during missions.
Whether it’s mechanical integration, or the ability to coexist with other onboard payloads, flexibility is critical. With this adaptability, surveillance units can maintain full situational awareness and react with precision, even in the most challenging operational conditions.
Solutions - Airbone COMINT C-ESM solutions for wide-areas radio-comm tactical situational awareness
360° coverage, instant radio-communication emitters detection
To monitor borders and coastlines, operators need a system that can cover wide areas with limited resources. Avantix FlashHawk is an airborne COMINT C-ESM solution that provides 360° real-time radio-communication emitters on the ground. FlashHawk ensures large coverage ISR missions as enabling 360° detection: you do not have flight-plans constraints to monitor the area of interest. This airborne solution allows efficient surveillance across large territories, even in challenging conditions, ensuring tactical situational awareness of the operational landscape.
FlashHawk processes multiple radio-signals in parallel, to cover wide areas efficiently. This capability enhances operational efficiency by enabling operators to maintain full situational awareness and provide actionable insight to take the right decisions.
Our system is designed to operate effectively with light aircraft at low altitudes, ensuring reliable performance even in challenging environments.
Optimized COMINT C-ESM solution operational readiness
Avantix solutions supports airborne ISR operational readiness through a modular design, integrating FlashHawk capabilities with tactical COMINT solutions to enable multi-mission capabilities within a single platform. Beyond this complementarity, our solution is interoperable with tiers systems such as mission systems or optronic sensors. This flexibility allows border and coastal units to adapt to diverse operational needs with a multi-sensors platform.
A native interconnection with an optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensor enables the solution to provide real-time visual tracking of the target on the ground. By combining signals intelligence with IMINT (imagery intelligence), FlashHawk provides the operator with actionable intelligence for tactical situational awareness and decision-making.
Designed for an efficient deployment, the solution presents a light mechanical and software integration to onboard airborne platforms. These easy-to-configure payload and easy-to-use interface minimize implementation time and enable fast operational availability.
Critical data, zero delay
Border and coastal units need to have rapid threat detection with instant and effective signal processing, and that’s exactly what our system is built for. Our expertise in RF signals enables us to deliver powerful detection of radio-comm transmitters capabilities. This high-performance system supports units to immediately get tactical situational awareness, to identify emerging threats, ensuring that critical data is processed with minimal delay.
Operation-proven, Avantix systems deliver consistent results, offering the flexibility to meet the unique needs of each operation.
A fully integrated surveillance solution from detection to action
Our COMINT C-ESM airborne solution is natively designed for seamless integration into mission systems and Command and Control (C2) solutions, ensuring an automated and efficient flow of intelligence for large-area surveillance, border, and coastal monitoring. By connecting our sensors to a C2 system, operators gain real-time access to field data, enabling clear, up-to-date, and visual situational awareness to support rapid decision-making and coordinated responses.
Our solution optimizes mission preparation through automation, reducing operator workload and enhancing operational efficiency. Once a potential threat or suspicious activity is detected, authorities can seamlessly transition from monitoring to intervention, leveraging real-time intelligence to deploy resources efficiently and ensure security.
Our system features recording and replay capabilities, allowing mission data to be replayed for post-mission analysis, intelligence gathering, and continuous operational improvement.
