Understanding maritime traffic patterns is key to Maritime Situational Awareness
applications, in particular, to classify and predict activities. Facilitated by the recent build-up …

Contemporary maritime piracy presents a significant threat to global shipping industry, with
annual costs estimated at up to US $7 bn. To counter the threat, policymakers, shipping …

Maritime Situational Awareness (ie, an effective understanding of activities in and impacting
the maritime environment) can be significantly improved by knowledge discovery of maritime …

The analysis of the declining impact of piracy on maritime routes and vessel behaviours in
the Indian Ocean is here performed using Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) …

The maritime domain is important to the security, prosperity and vital interests of the global
community. In order to protect these interests, governments require capabilities that provide …

Extensive use of sensors and system automations tend to become a trend in our everyday
life. In this manner, maritime traffic is monitored by advanced sensor systems, one of which …

The United States faces numerous, varied, and evolving threats to national security,
including terrorism, scarcity and disruption of food and water supplies, extreme weather …

Automatic ship detection systems are one of the most unique Computer Vision topics [1],
getting much attention in recent years [2]. Sea perception can be depicted as the convincing …

ABSTRACT The Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF South) serves as the center for
counterillicit trafficking operations against Central and South American drug cartels. JIATF …

How can complex decisions, featuring multiple data sources and conflicting constraints, be
supported by computer interfaces? We take a human factors approach to the problem by …