French air services navigation provider DSNA has selected the XTR SERIS consortium to provide a drone detection service for airspace around airports.
In a LinkedIn post, Guillaume Blandel, Director of Operations at DSNA, said drone activity has been identified for some time by airlines and DSNA services as a new threat. “The DSNA therefore had to equip itself with a drone detection service near the largest platforms, in line with its DSNA2030 modernisation programme.”
Blandel confirmed that the service is now active in Nice and Marseille. “It is part of the existing operational concept relating to the processing of non-collaborative drones by adding electronic detection and automatic reporting to human visual reporting (pilots, airport operator agents, ATMs, etc.). For tower managers, the operating procedure consists of a simple telephone report by an XTR SERIS operator of the intruder and the area concerned (orange or red) according to which measures are recommended.”
The service is likely to be extended to sites in Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Basel-Mulhouse, Nantes and Beauvais, Blandel said.
The XTR SERIS consortium comprises SERIS Security and Drone XTR. In 2023, Drone XTR detected over 150,000 unauthorised drone flights , covering 65,000 hectares under surveillance.
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