The company behind the Canadarm is using its satellite technology to help track and catch illegal fishers in the Galapagos Islands.
"So it's a huge impact on our economy and, of course, a very large impact on the oceans, which we're always trying to regulate and manage," Greenley said.
Greenley says MDA operates radar-based earth observation satellites, and works with partners that use other types of satellites that can measure radio signals from sources such as satellite phones and radars, to track ships from space. Artificial intelligence looks at the behaviour of a given ship to determine if it's engaging in illegal fishing.
That information is then shared to the Ecuadorian government's naval command centre so the proper authorities can interdict the illegal vessel. "If you know you're being watched all the time from space then that's a deterrent, and then we can use it to allow them [countries] to use their navies or their air forces to vector in and get people out of there," Greenley said.
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