User Requirement Consolidation Meeting of the Joint EMSA/ESA Programme on Satellite based Automatic Identification System (SAT-AIS)

Following the information meeting, a User Requirement Consolidation Meeting took place on 27 January at EMSA in Lisbon. Close to 100 participants from representatives from EU Member States, ESA, European Commission Services, the user community, service providers and industry were in attendance.

The detailed results of the EMSA User Benefits Analysis were presented and consolidated as well as the scenario descriptions for the Phase B1 system activity. At the meeting it was recommended to establish a User Group that would support the validation of the user needs, support’s the further definition process of the scenario description as well as the trade offs at mission level.