AntiDrone - Defence against unauthorized drones

Introduction
Objectives
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Drones are widespread. The potential threat to the population and critical infrastructure is extremely high. Concepts and solutions for a broad and comprehensive defense of unauthorized drones must be prepared and developed.

Introduction

In Germany today about 500,000 drones are used in the areas of hobby, aerial photography, sensor technology and other applications. The market is growing, the technology is regularly upgraded. The products become more powerful with regard to payload, control, autonomous flying, flight time and sensor technology. Commercial use, for example in the field of transport, is investigated and tested in various applications.

Drones are a potential threat and interfere with privacy. Drones jeopardize public transport. Disregard of the rules and laws, improper handling and careless, improper operations are only a part of the abuse.

Terrorist targets are the destruction, economic damages and spread of fear and fright, usually without targeted attacks against chosen victims. The attack of our population and of the infrastructure with the use of drones, either individually or in swarm, is now widely categorized as the greatest potential threat in the future.

Legislation has an effort to adapt the legal framework to the needs. The industry develops first products for defense - often with a military or private-oriented application background.

A comprehensive solution to safeguarding security in the interior, in the airspace and the protection against particularly terrorist motivated attacks is missing. The aim of the project is the development of economic as well as strong concepts and solutions for government application, also taking into account available products in the market.

Objectives

The project includes the following work on analysis and conceptualization.

Technology and abilities of available drones

Hobby, professional applications
Special solutions
Procurement channels, costs, aspects of export control.

Potential threat

Effectiveness, destruction potential, long-term consequences
Published case studies
Strategies and tactics in terrorist-oriented deployment.

Situation Report

Sensor technology, signal processing, detection and classification (threat)
Requirements, coverage in the area, tracking of objects
Skills and limits, use in everyday life, life-cycle observation.

Skills and counter-measures

List of demands
Detection of anomalies, warning time
prevention of damage, damage limitation
Airspace monitoring for small, low-flying objects
Technology, sensor technology
Use of existing infrastructure, mobile technology and logistics, costs
Acquisition, analysis, classification, tracking
Networked threat analysis, real-time requirements
Warning, initiation of countermeasures.

Measures and recommendations

Law, ethical aspects
Adjustments to the legal situation
Demonstrator, integration of existing infrastructure
Market, potential, export.

The provision of appropriate means of protecting the population and critical infrastructure against drones is a task that must be followed by the security authorities. System solutions are highly complex. Preventive activities are necessary because the appropriate defense technology is not falling from the sky in the truest sense of the word.

Technology Sensory data fusion, pattern recognition, classification
Sensory networks, tracking, threat detection
Databases, networking, real-time requirements

Markets Global
Internal security, civilian application
Protection of critical infrastructures

Remarks Preventive measures must be taken in the short term. Measures take time. The action "after the attack" would be a sign of irresponsibility.

Technology	Sensory data fusion, pattern recognition, classification Sensory networks, tracking, threat detection Databases, networking, real-time requirements
Markets	Global Internal security, civilian application Protection of critical infrastructures
Remarks	Preventive measures must be taken in the short term. Measures take time. The action "after the attack" would be a sign of irresponsibility.

AntiDrone - Defence against unauthorized drones

Introduction

Objectives

Links and downloads