Towards Enhanced Support for Ship Sailing

Ship sailing is a complex endeavour, requiring carefully considered proactive and reactive strategies in choosing the course of action that best suits various events to be managed. Humans are already supported by different technologies for sailing, however these usually available isolation. In this paper we show how use simultaneously three fusing their information order provide enhanced support ship sailing. To our knowledge no similar approach reported literature from an operational point view. particular, fuse video acquired camera with radar/Lidar AIS receiver. The frames analyzed automatically detect surrounding ships seamarks, Lidar used determine average or minimum distance targets finally receiver logs queried determine, if available, useful related ships, such as geographic location, type etc. Our experimental results promising encouraging. We believe simultaneous step towards fully autonomous