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the same is yet to see daylight. However post 26/11 a slew of coastal security measures have been taken, from a fledgling coastal radar network to state marine police stations and NMA. The 15 or more agencies involved, ranging from Navy, Coast Guard, customs, intelligence agencies and port authorities to the home and shipping ministries, state governments and fisheries departments, often work at cross-purposes. A full-time federal body like NMA is needed to clear the clutter. The National Maritime Domain Awareness (NMDA) Project of India, an integrated intelligence grid to detect and tackle threats emanating from the sea in real-time has been established to generate a common operational picture of activities at sea through an institutionalised mechanism for collecting, fusing and analysing information from technical and other sources like coastal surveillance network radars, space-based automatic identification systems, vessel traffic management systems, fishing vessel registration and fishermen biometric identity databases.
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The Modi led BJP Govt had promised to set up a National Maritime Authority (NMA) of India in their 2014 election manifesto to ensure cohesive policy-making and effective coordination on coastal security among the multiple authorities dealing with maritime issues in the country. But the proposal for
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India has a coastal surveillance radar systems (CSRS) network with radar across India, Seychelles and Mauritius and Sri Lanka. As of January 2019, India is in advanced discussions with Myanmar to install similar radar systems there, and has also offered these systems to Bangladesh, Indonesia,
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is very limited, and the sheer size of the arctic and north Atlantic parts of the Danish maritime domain makes comprehensive maritime domain awareness very difficult. Furthermore, the navy ships patrolling both areas are deemed outdated and increasingly unfit for the task.
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The maritime domain is defined as all areas and things of, on, under, relating to, adjacent to, or bordering on a sea, ocean, or other navigable waterway, including all maritime-related activities, infrastructure, people, cargo, and vessels and other conveyances.
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In Canada, the 2004 National Security Policy resulted in the establishment of Marine Security Operations Centers (MSOCs) responsible for supporting a national response to maritime security threat. The East Coast MSOC is in
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Countries have always gathered information about the maritime environment, in order to generate intelligence necessary for various missions or finding enemy navies. Modern MDA however, was defined in the aftermath of the
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Different agents conducts MDA, the most important being Maritime Domain Awareness Centers or Maritime Domain Awareness Fusion Centers. Maritime Domain Awareness Centers can have different areas of studies, regional,
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maritime traffic is controlled by the Vessel Traffic Service systems and information is fused and analyzed by the National Maritime Operations Center. The National Maritime Operations Center also acts as national
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helicopters and Challenger aircraft, and information is fused and analyzed by the Joint Rescue Coordination Center of the Joint Arctic Command.
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A number of challenges exist to Danish maritime domain awareness. In the Danish straits, which have ideal operating conditions for submarines,
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compared to the 112th largest population, a domain which is also economically and geopolitically important in several ways. The
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In the Philippines, the National Coast Watch System (NCWS) was originally designed to improve maritime domain awareness in the
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For private ports, The Mariner Group's CommandBridge platform is the market leader in Maritime Domain Awareness Systems.
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and law enforcement systems in order to create a Common Information Sharing Environment for the EU maritime domain.
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patrols, in the way that in order to do effective patrols you need to have the ability of conducting effective MDA
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as the effective understanding of anything associated with the maritime domain that could impact the security,
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The European Union took a decision in 2008 to improve the integration and interoperability of member states'
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and operates the Maritime Assistance Service, which is connected to the EU-based SafeSeaNe.t
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to the open ocean, with a total number of approximately 70.000 ships transiting the
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the Danish navy is building up its capabilities over the coming years, in 2021 the
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is of increasing importance as geopolitical tensions rise and sea ice melts.
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The maritime domain of Denmark encompasses the maritime domain of the entire
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helicopters and a number of coastal surveillance stations. In
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patrol vessels, Naval Home Guard, Danish Fishing Authority,
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is the DoD Executive Agent for maritime domain awareness.
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announce the establishment of two MDA centers, one in
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to increase underwater awareness capabilities for the
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Index

International Maritime Organization
safety
environment
maritime security
anti-piracy
9/11 terror attack
USS Cole
freedom of navigation
crime
Automatic Identification System
tip and cue
Underwater domain awareness
Halifax
Victoria
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence Seaway
Niagara
maritime safety
security
border control
environmental protection
fisheries
Danish Realm
Denmark
Faroe Islands
North Atlantic
Greenland
EEZ
Danish straits
Baltic Sea

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