a maritime case study to elicit classifications and characteristics.

Discharges from shipping are estimated to account for about 20% of global discharges at sea. The protection of the marine environment can be greatly enhanced by reducing these discharges of ship generated waste and cargo residues into the sea. Achieving zero-waste in maritime transport is one of the Commission's policy goals, as set out in the Commission Communication on strategic goals and rec...

Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL), in conjunction with Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Advanced Development Programs, performed a set of experiments in cooperation with the U.S. Navy involving collaborative, unmanned surface, and air vehicle mission execution. Our multi-domain, collaborative research focused on increasing unmanne...

This paper describes aspects of an information system being constructed for intelligent information retrieval in maritime navigation applications. The system is based largely on digital nautical charts, and the construction of a taxonomy of chart features and concepts related to the maritime navigation domain is described. This taxonomy is used in formulating queries and sub-queries for dispara...

Department of BioMechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands Centre for Transport Studies, University of Twente, Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands c TNO Human Factors, Kampweg 5, 3769 DE Soesterberg, The Netherlands d Transportation Research Group, Civil, Maritime, ...

Safety and security are constant concerns of maritime navigation, especially when considering the constant growth of maritime traffic and decrease of crews on decks. This has favoured to the development of automated monitoring systems such as the Automatic Identification System (AIS) and Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS). However, officers on the watch and monitoring autho...

Communicating with vessels at sea is a necessity, but it is difficult and expensive. The first satellite communications networks were conceived with one primary consideration – improving the safety of seafarers and their vessels. As technology has advanced and the requirements for sending data between ship and shore have increased, the pay-per-megabyte nature of L-band demand assigned services ...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are an important concern in merchant maritime operations. They are responsible for the majority of deaths at sea that are not related to injury or violence. The objective was to better understand the epidemiology of CVD in merchant maritime operations. MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective review of medical events on board merchant maritime vessels over ...

The free, full and open data policy of the EU’s Copernicus programme has vastly increased the amount of remotely sensed data available to both operational and research activities. However, this huge amount of data calls for new ways of accessing and processing such “big data”. This paper focuses on the use of Copernicus’s Sentinel-1 radar satellite for maritime surveillance. It presents a study...

CO2 emissions from maritime transport operations represent a substantial part of the total greenhouse gas emission. Vessels are designed with better energy efficiency. Minimizing CO2 emission in maritime operations plays an important role in supply chain decarbonisation. This paper reviews the initiatives on slow steaming operations towards the reduction of carbon emission. It investigates the ...