Atlas VTS for Chinese customs authority

STN Atlas Elektronik has completed installation of new VTS facilities for the Customs authority at Shenzhen, the South China Sea coastal city north of Hong Kong, under a contract worth $400,000. Designed to monitor and help avert unauthorised local border crossings and smuggling activities, the system comprises a remote-sited Atlas X-band 9750 radar and associated track processor facilities which are in turn linked to two 21-inch traffic display workstations at the Customs office and its ancillary control station. Both workstations provide continuous monitoring operations while also allowing high-resolution record and replay functions. Atlas says the system is expected to be connected to a more extensive monitoring network at a later stage. The Shenzhen system is the latest of a series of VTS installations in China carried out by Atlas following its recent commissioning of a radar data processing and training facility at Dalian Maritime University. This is used for the training of Chinese VTS operators and maintenance personnel.