Admiral Hari Kumar termed the IPMDA initiative as a significant endeavour aimed at enhancing the security and stability of the Indo-Pacific region.
What is the Indo Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) initiative?
The IPMDA initiative was announced by the Quad (India, Japan, Australia and the USA) countries in 2022.
IPMDA is a technology and training initiative to enhance maritime domain awareness in the Indo-Pacific region and to bring increased transparency to its critical waterways.
It harnesses innovative technology, such as commercial satellite radio frequency data collection, to provide partners across Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean region and the Pacific with near real-time information on activities occurring in their maritime zones.
The IPMADA initiative also involves regional information centers, helping to establish a common operating picture of the maritime domain across the Indo-Pacific region.
Objective:
To track “dark shipping” and build a “faster, wider, and more accurate maritime picture of near-real-time activities in partners’ waters”.
Integration of three critical regions in the Indo-Pacific – the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean Region.
Significance:
IPMDA initiative will offer an integrated and cost-effective maritime domain to partner countries.
It will enable countries to monitor illegal fishing even when the boats have turned off the transponders which are typically used to track vessels.
Several countries in the Indo-Pacific region have complained about China’s vast fishing fleet, saying its vessels often violate their exclusive economic zones and cause environmental damage and economic losses.
Dark Ships
“Dark Ships” are vessels with their Automatic Identification System (AIS) – a transponder system – switched off so as not to be detectable.
Maritime Domain Awareness
Maritime domain awareness is the effective understanding of anything associated with the maritime domain that could impact security, safety, the economy or the marine environment,” according to the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
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