SARCAM¶
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SARCAM is a crew assistance camera system designed to support civil sea rescue operations on the search for people in distress of maritime environments.
Traditionally, relevant search operations are conducted by standing outside and searching the horizon with binoculars manually, which is an error-prone, strenuous, and daunting process, and ties up staff which is needed elsewhere.
The system is easy to operate and enables the crew to spot floating objects at a distance. In an optimal setup, the camera system is attached to the mast, automatically scans the ship’s surroundings, and facilitates by AI based detection and tracking of floating objects during day and nighttime, If the system detects a boat It will raise alarm and visualize the found boat.
The software stack supports currently following cameras as target hardware:
-Hopewish DMS15 (Stabilized RGB+Thermal Stream)
SOAR977 (Stabilized RGB+Thermal Stream)
SOAR908 (RGB Stream)
Generic ONVIF cameras
Future support; FLIR maritime cameras
What’s inside¶
This repository contains the SARCAM software stack. It includes most of the software/tooling, as well as corresponding setup instructions. The system is currently in development.
Documentation¶
See also project description and technical documentation.
Software development¶
You can use different ways to get a development environment up and running. The development sandbox documentation describes relevant procedures in detail.
The SARCAM system is mainly designed to run on Linux. If you are running a different operating system on your workstation, it may work aswell using pixi package manager, but untested.
Project Information¶
Acknowledgements¶
Kudos to the authors of all the many software components this system is building upon, starting from Linux, turtles all the way down.
Contributing¶
SARCAM is an open source project, and is managed on GitLab. We appreciate contributions of any kind.
License¶
The project uses the GPL license, like other projects where it is building upon and deriving from.