Announcements

Invitation to industry - Aerial Border Surveillance Trial, Spain 2014

2014-08-05

Frontex, in cooperation with the Spanish Guardia Civil, is organising a workshop during which interested commercial companies will be given the opportunity to present the latest advances in tethered aerostats for sea and land border surveillance to border control experts from the EU Member States. The trial will take place in Spain during week 42/43 (October 2014).

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Invitation for Border surveillance workshop 2014

2014-03-10

The surveillance of external borders is one of the essential components of border control in the EU. Border surveillance activities take place in wide border areas and present a variety of challenges like: • How to detect and track small boats? • How to improve the surveillance capability of border patrols and boats/vessels? • How can integration contribute to redress the limitations of current border surveillance systems? • What is the added value? What is the trade off between effectiveness and cost?

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