Spain: Electronic border monitoring in Fuerteventura
01 May 2002
Three transportable platforms to monitor the coast of the Canary Islands will be part of a programme to seal the Spanish coast, known as Sistema Integral de Vigilancia Exterior (SIVE, Integrated External Surveillance System) which has been allocated 10.5 million euros funding over five years. The stations, costing more than 6 million euros, will patrol Fuerteventura's 150 kilometre coastline and will be equipped with a radar system to detect objects coming within 25 kilometres of the coast, infra-red cameras detecting objects with the temperature of either a human or an engine within a 7 kilometre range. The three stations will be controlled from an operations centre in Puerto del Rosario from where patrol launches will obtain the coordinates and speed measurement of the vessel that has been spotted.
El Pais 25.6.02