{"id":69137,"date":"2016-12-29T23:50:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/uk-space-agency-awards-exactearth-1-1-million-for-small-vessel-tracking\/"},"modified":"2016-12-29T23:50:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T15:50:14","slug":"uk-space-agency-awards-exactearth-1-1-million-for-small-vessel-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/uk-space-agency-awards-exactearth-1-1-million-for-small-vessel-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Space Agency Awards exactEarth 1.1 Million for Small Vessel Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-29-2016] <strong>ExactEarth Europe Limited<\/strong>, a U.K. subsidiary of <strong>exactEarth Ltd<\/strong>, the leading provider of satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) data services, has been awarded a 1.1 million pound (approximately $1.3 million) grant from the <strong>UK Space Agency<\/strong> under its International Partnerships Program (IPP). The IPP funding will support the operational deployment of exactEarth\u2019s satellite AIS-based small vessel tracking technology \u201cexactTrax\u201d to improve Safety Of Life At Sea (SOLAS) for South Africa\u2019s small boat owners and operators \u2014 in particular the artisanal fishing sector. As such, exactEarth Europe will be working closely on the project with the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) and South Africa\u2019s National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI).<\/p>\n<p>The grant award follows the successful South Africa Safety Initiative for Small Vessels (OASIS) project, also partly funded by the UK Space Agency, which trialed exactEarth\u2019s exactTrax service with SAMSA in 2015\/2016. Small vessels in the fisheries, leisure marine and workboat sectors in South Africa typically operate without a tracking system onboard, making it difficult for the authorities to locate them if they are involved in an accident at sea. OASIS demonstrated that exactEarth\u2019s exactTrax technology provides the small vessel tracking required by the safety authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Under this new project, OASIS Operational Take-up (OASIS-TU), South Africa\u2019s most \u201cat-risk\u201d small boat population \u2014 artisanal fishing boats under 10 meters \u2014 will be operationally equipped with exactTrax-enabled AIS transponders. Position reports (and alerts in the case of SOS situations) from these will be provided as standard AIS messages for integration into SAMSA\u2019s and the NSRI\u2019s maritime domain awareness and Search and Rescue (SaR) systems. To assist with the rollout of the project, exactEarth will be partnering with two South African companies, <strong>Marine Data Solutions <\/strong>and <strong>Stone Three Venture Technology<\/strong>, both based in Cape Town. The expected duration of this project is 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Space Agency\u2019s International Partnership Program is a 150 million pound (approximately $183 million) multi-year program which uses space knowledge, expertise and capability to provide a sustainable, economic or societal benefit to undeveloped nations and developing economies. Grants are awarded to industrial and academic partners to run projects that address real-world problems in developing nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-29-2016] ExactEarth Europe Limited, a U.K. subsidiary of exactEarth Ltd, the leading provider of satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) data services, has been awarded a 1.1 million pound (approximately $1.3 million) grant from the UK Space Agency under its International Partnerships Program (IPP). The IPP funding will support the operational deployment of exactEarth\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}