Core aerospace engineering and protocols for Dark Vessel Detection.
Vessels engaged in illegal fishing, sanctions evasion, or narcotics smuggling deliberately switch off their mandatory Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponders to vanish from coast guard monitoring screens.
EvtolSurveillance sweeps the ocean with compact maritime surface search radar. When the system detects a metallic ship contact that has no corresponding AIS transponder broadcast, the AI flags a 'dark vessel', autonomously routing the aircraft to capture 4K zoom photography of the hull name and IMO registry number.