EADS,
Munich, Germany: EADS Defence and Communications Systems has completed the delivery of Coastal Surveillance Radar System (CSR), which had been ordered by the Estonian Ministry of Interior. The system, operated by the Estonian Border Guard, covers the entire coastline of more than 500 km.
The 27 million euro contract includes the delivery of the whole Coastal Surveillance System, including radar, signal processing, multi sensor tracking, system management, data base system and recording and replay based on the EADS product CSS Seatrack 7000.
Designed and built to ensure the integrity of the Estonian territory and territorial waters the system identifies and recognises surface and air targets in the responsibility of the Estonian Border Guard.
The system is based on twenty radar sites, including ten Short Range Radars (SRR) with sea target detection and signal processing capability and ten Long Range Radars (LRR) with sea and air target detection and processing capabilities.
The operational responsibility is allocated to four Regional Control Centres (RCC). Each RCC is connected with a number of radar sites. The number of associated radar sites varies from four to eight LRR and SRR, depending on the complexity of the coastline. The overall coastal operations picture of all four RCC is displayed to four operators in the National Control Centre which is located at the Border Guard harbour in Tallinn.
“As an expert for integrated security systems and platforms, EADS has comprehensively responded to these objectives by developing a sophisticated Coastal Surveillance System as an essential step towards extensive Maritime Security, and a Border Security Programme which has only recently been acquired by the Estonian government in order to meet European security standards.
“EADS itself has strong and proven expertise in the planning, integration and execution of Maritime Security Systems: through our variety of activities from commercial aircraft to complex naval and ground based combat management systems we have acquired a unique know-how in system design and large system integration,” said Herv
