CABS laboratory of DRDO developed EO/IR system to carry out surveillance from airborne, land and naval platforms

The Centre for Air Borne Systems (CABS), a laboratory of the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO), has indigenously developed electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) system to carry out surveillance from airborne, land and naval platforms.

CABS will equip multi-mode maritime aircraft (MMMA) with the EO/IR system, which can be used to identify ships responsible for oil spilling in seas and oceans.

EO/IR can be integrated with a multi-functional tactical console (MTC), which consists of monitors on which real time maritime and air situations are displayed. Through this integration, users (Army, Navy and Coast Guard) will get to know about the situation. Presently, it is being equipped with multi-mode maritime aircraft (MMMA) and is being developed for the Indian Coast Guard. One of the roles of MMMA is pollution surveillance. Oil spills are one of the major pollutants in the oceans. So, EO/IR would detect ships responsible for the oil spills as it has artificial intelligence-enabled object detection and tracking. The EO/IR is equipped with a laser illuminator that could help in reading the names of the ships and it also has a laser-range finder that could be used to find the range of the target, as per an official.