In this project, the Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) operation bases in Keelung and Kaohsiung has been established. These two operation bases support the operations of survey mission and receive Automatic Identification System (AIS) information 24 hours a day from ocean vessels. In order to obtain the positions of all the large vessels in the Taiwan, we not only use the data from those two bases, but also acquire AIS data from the National AIS Collection Organization. A web-based platform provides real time status of vessels in the Taiwan Strait to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). On the other hand, those AIS information will also be stored in the database based on time series. The history record let the EPA to check all vessels through the Taiwan Strait anytime. This project has complete 30 unmanned maritime surveillance missions this year, which include Taiwan to Penghu mission, river monitoring flight, and other maritime vessel monitoring tasks。The distance of real-time video monitoring is extended from 25 km to 50km with to the new radio communication technology. Today, more than 170 surveillance records are stored in the EPA’s multimedia database for future reference. In July this year, a seminar, which was organized by this project team, continued to promote the concept and technology related to the potential application of UAS. The project is now well-prepared for the further application of UAS in national marine pollution surveillance. According to the demands and resources, a master plan with short-term and long-term objectives was been presented.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle、UAV、Marine Pollution 、 River Pollution