“Asia and the Pacific Rim are key markets for us, and we are pleased to take this step to demonstrate our commitment to servicing prospective customers in the region,” said John Allan, exactEarth’s Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing. “The economic, political and security implications of Maritime trade are key to this region and a satellite-based vessel monitoring service such as exactAIS is the only effective solution for true maritime domain awareness. We are actively engaged in discussions with a number of nations in the region to provide such a service.”
Albert Antoine has provided consultancy services on maritime domain awareness issues for numerous Asian countries and been involved in installations of integrated maritime surveillance systems for search and rescue, maritime security, environmental and fisheries protection missions. Mr. Antoine has more than two decades of experience in the Asia Pacific region. He holds a M.Sc. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, as well as a Master in Computer Science from France’s International Institute of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
The exactAIS data service delivers satellite-based AIS messages directly to end users for a variety of maritime surveillance applications. exactAIS provides the most capable satellite-based solution in the world, offering detection rates many times higher than other systems.