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Navy invites neighbours to join Indian Ocean monitoring facility in Gurgaon

This high-tech control centre obtains feeds from a range of space-based and terrestrial sensors as well as other sources to track fishing boats and commercial vessels

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Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman, addresses an audience that included the envoys to New Delhi of several global powers and regional countries. They were invited to join an international version of IMAC called the Information Fusion Centre for the

Ajai Shukla Gurgaon

Last Updated : Dec 23 2018 | 12:43 AM IST

Bustling Gurgaon, a thousand miles from the coast, may seem an odd location from which to monitor the Indian Ocean, but that is exactly where the navy – to safeguard against repeats of the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist strikes – established the Information Management and Analysis Centre (IMAC).

This high-tech control centre obtains feeds from a range of space-based and terrestrial sensors as well as other sources to track fishing boats and commercial vessels near India’s coast and in the vast maritime domain beyond.

On Saturday, this initiative for maritime domain awareness (MDA) went international.

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