Frontex Organizes RPAS Border Surveillance Workshop
The workshop on “Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) and Optionally Piloted Aircraft (OPA) potential for European border surveillance and search and rescue (SAR) operations” will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria on 18 and 19 April 2012.
The workshop is organized by Frontex, in cooperation with the Chief Directorate of Border Police of Bulgaria. Key stakeholders and representatives of the authorities of EU Member States involved in border control will attend.
The aim of the workshop is to present and debate the potential of RPAS and OPA for European border surveillance and SAR operations, touching topics like: technical and operational features, payloads, data-links, legislation, buying services or the product – a business case, cost-efficiency, comparisons with the classical aerial surveillance, best practices and lessons learned. The event will also give the end-users and industry the opportunity to meet each other and to exchange their views, experience and needs.
Frontex invites the relevant industry to present its latest achievements in this domain, especially from the perspective of cost-efficiency.
The invitation for Industry participation is posted on the Frontex web site
