Pirates incoming! Smart radar stands watch

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2971, 2014, pág. 23
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Before dawn on May 5, two pirates armed with knives boarded a ship in the Sierra Leone port of Freetown. They took the duty cadet hostage, stole some mooring ropes then slipped back into the darkness. No one saw them coming, but a new kind of intelligent radar might have done. The system, called WatchStander, uses radar mounted on either side of a ship to scan the surrounding water for small objects that look like they are moving to intercept. It can automatically sound an alarm and dispense countermeasures to deter the approaching vessel. The system is meant to tackle one of the biggest issues with preventing piracy at sea: spotting them coming.