Introduction to CLASS (Cyber, Land, Air, Sea, Space) Surveillance Systems

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, popularized by Klaus Schwab in 2015 at the World Economic Forum represents a fundamental change in the way we live, work and relate to one another. We're working in an environment where volumes and complexity are increasing, but budgets are decreasing. How to sense and act upon a future that remains unclear? We are constantly interconnected each-other and some physical barriers and sector segmentations are almost disappearing. But the landscape is heterogeneous. While some communities have developed into full-fledged “smart” working environment, many others have barely grasped the essentials of digitization and continue to struggle with larger reliance on personal interaction and paper-based transactions to deal with business as usual. In the maritime sector, for instance, January 1
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, 2024 mark compulsory by IMO for ports around the world to operate Maritime Sigle Windows for the electronic exchange of information required on ships' arrival, their stay and their departure facilitating the digitalization of ports and the entire supply-chain. This paper aims to identify multi-domain user needs for surveillance systems as well as the technology framework on which to develop next generations of traffic management and surveillance systems.