15 results for "rpas"
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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2018-02-06
Workshop on methodologies/methods, procedures, good practices on investigating/testing/evaluating border security technologiesThe Member States Border Guard Authorities are constantly looking for efficient and effective technologies to improve their work at the borders. Proper methodologies/methods/procedures for investigating/testing these technologies are essential to test their operational effectiveness and suitability, providing a solid support to make the right decision and eventually ...
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2016-02-05
Workshop on methodologies/methods, procedures, best practices on investigating/testing/evaluating border security technologies The Member States Border Guard Authorities are constantly looking for efficient and effective technological solutions able to continuously improve their activity at the border. Depending on the context, either in the development phase (for a customized solution), or when “commercial of the shelf” products are needed, these technologies have to be ...
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2018-10-06
This week Frontex marks its two-year anniversary as the European Border and Coast Guard Agency. Over the last two years the agency has cemented its position as one of the cornerstones of the EU’s area of freedom, security and justice, becoming more and more operational on the ground at Europe’s external borders. More operational and more involved on the ground Currently the agency deploys some 1500 officers on average in its numerous operations at EU’s external borders and over the last two ...
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2017-03-20
The Member States Border Guard Authorities are constantly looking for efficient and effective technological solutions able to continuously improve their activity at the border. Depending on the context, either as a learning process before writing the technical specifications for specific tender procedures, or as an instrument for decision (to acquire a certain technology or not), either for testing certain equipment after acquisition in order to check if it satisfies the technical/operational ...
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