Yangtze River Maritime Department launches intelligent cruise supervision in key waters of the Three

Credits: Chinanews.com

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The first fully autonomous intelligent cruise drone on the Yangtze River trunk line successfully flew on the 27th at the Maritime Department of Yichang Maritime Safety Administration. This is the anchorage of the Yangtze River Maritime Department. A successful attempt to carry out intelligent cruise supervision in the key waters of the Three Gorges with complex navigation conditions, such as many sluice ships, many bridges across the river, many operating docks, high ship density, and large water level fluctuations.

At the first flight ceremony that day, a fully autonomous intelligent cruise drone successfully exercised 4 maritime law enforcement supervision subjects including autonomous cruise, inspection and evidence collection, remote communication, and search and positioning.

According to reports, when the drone is cruising autonomously, it can view the navigation environment, navigation order, anchoring order, operation order and navigation mark settings in the jurisdiction through high-power automatic zooming from a long-range and short-range view, realizing the full coverage of the anchorages in the Yichang port area. , Air cruising without dead ends.

UAVs can conduct on-site inspection and evidence collection, conduct on-site inspections of suspected overloaded ships, including ship names, home ports, ship waterlines, cargo on ships, and ship sewage outlets, and synchronize video and return relevant evidence. Its search and positioning function can accurately locate the loss of navigation marks and people falling into the water during high flood periods.

It is understood that compared with the traditional UAV application mode, the intelligent drone cruise system has the advantages of autonomous charging and swapping, autonomous scene cruise, airborne mode recognition, grid networking and roaming. It can be used in the Yangtze River Shipping The private network or the public network can be operated and controlled remotely, which can realize fixed-point and fixed-line cruise, and can also cruise with the ship.

The relevant person in charge of the Yichang Maritime Safety Administration stated that the use of drones for cruise law enforcement will effectively utilize the strong practice of the advantages of the integrated maritime supervision model, and provide a strong guarantee for maintaining the clean, safe and unblocked waters of the jurisdiction.