Project "LiveLage" real-time mapping w/ Vector UAS

Exercise scenario on the “Rhine Orange
The live situation exercise was organized by the Duisburg Fire Department with the support of the Waterways and Shipping Authority and the Air Safety Department of the Düsseldorf District Government. About 30 participants and a lot of heavy equipment were involved on land and water in Duisburg. The exercise area was set up around the “Rhine Orange” landmark - a sculpture marking the mouth of the Ruhr River into the Rhine at Rhine kilometer 780.
The response to a shipwreck with a person overboard was practiced there. This realistic scenario triggered an alarm chain, which was supported during the exercise by the fire department UAV, type Vector of the manufacturer Quantum-Systems, with built-in DLR camera MACS-nano. This enabled aerial images of the incident to be transmitted in real time to the executives in the command vehicle (ELW 2) even before the first firefighters arrived. In the CommandX CX5 command support system from Eurocommand available there, the situation picture was built up fully automatically from MACS aerial images, analyzed and enriched with all information relevant to the operation. At the same time, the firefighters from fire station 5 and the fireboat from fire station 8 deployed and a few minutes later precisely reached the scene - the training ship west of the Rhine orange, which was heavily smoking due to smoke bombs.
A few hundred meters in a southeasterly direction, the “missing person” was identified in the water and quickly rescued by the divers of the multipurpose boat, which had also been deployed.
The enthusiasm of the executives in the ELW 2 about the smooth course of the exercise using the three core technologies MACS, Vector and CommandX was literally tangible. “The live mapping technologies were absolutely convincing and must be transferred to real operations as quickly as possible. This year, we will take the decisive step further and test the system as a beta tester in operations for a longer period of time,” says Oliver Tittmann, head of the Duisburg Fire Department.
GERMAN:
Das Projekt Live-Lage entstand 2018 aus dem Bedürfnis heraus, ein kleines System zur schnellen, präzisen optischen Aufklärung von Großschadens- und Katastrophenlagen zu entwickeln. Einen Höhepunkt markiert die Live-Lage Übung im Duisburger Binnenhafen im Mai 2022. Das Szenario: Ein brennendes Schiff und eine Person im Wasser. Unter einsatzrealistischen Bedingungen wurde das Zusammenwirken der Kerntechnologien, zu denen das Kamerasystem MACS-nano von OPTSAL, das Führungsunterstützungssystem CommandX von Eurocommand GmbH und die Vector-Drohne von Quantum-Systems GmbH zählen, unter Beweis gestellt. Der Amtsleiter der Berufsfeuerwehr, Oliver Tittmann, zeigte sich begeistert: „Die Live-Mapping-Technologien haben absolut überzeugt und müssen schnellstmöglich in den echten Einsatz überführt werden. Noch in diesem Jahr gehen wir hierfür den entscheidenden Schritt weiter und werden das System als beta-Tester für einen längeren Zeitraum in Einsätzen erproben.“
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