This paper presents a multi-sensor architecture with an adaptive multi-sensor management system suitable for control and navigation of autonomous maritime vessels in hazy and poorvisibility conditions. This architecture resides in the autonomous maritime vessels. It augments the data from on-board imaging sensors and weather sensors with the AIS data and weather data from sensors on other vesse...

Within the domain of maritime safety and security, many operators and analysts are asked to manage huge set of real-time data. Information systems, such as Maritime Surveillance Systems, are used to visualize and analyse information of monitored vessels (e.g., AIS, RADAR). Past tracks, present states of vessels and contextual data, such as meteorology, are gathered in these visual platforms. Fi...

This paper describes a Finnish project on developing a blended learning approach to training the merchant marine On Board Training Officers. Maritime Education and Training is regulated by the International Maritime Organization's Code on Seafarer’s Training, Certification and Watchkeeping. On Board Training comprises one third of the Deck Officer and Engineer studies. There have been problems ...

Maritime safety and security require a constant surveillance of the traffic at sea, and several human actors are in charge of this control. Potential risks alerts, suspicious vessels and description of the situation are managed by visual surveillance systems. But these systems do not provide real analysis tools for maritime traffic data. Geovisualization and visual analytics have shown to be ve...

The inundation of a disputed island in the Bay of Bengal in March 2010 was reported as an unlooked for benefit of climate change, eliminating the object of a contentious bilateral dispute. In fact this has not proved to be the case and the incident instead highlights the vulnerability of certain low-lying coastlines and insular features to significant and rapid changes in location, whether caus...

Maritime transport remains the dominant mode for international trade both for bulk transport of commodities and containerized break-bulk cargo. The economics of bulk transport still influence trade patterns and industrial location. Intermodal transport has become a global phenomenon as mechanized handling and containerization have reduced handling costs between modes and promoted their efficien...

Mining trajectory data has been attracting significant interest in the last years. Emerging technologies like Automatic Identification System (AIS) provides multi-dimensional data which is about voyages and vessels. The maritime area is a free moving space. Unlike the vehicles’ movements are constrained by road networks, there is no such a sea route for ships to follow in maritime area. In this...

This manuscript conducts a comparison on modern object detection systems in their ability to detect multiple maritime vessel classes. Three highly scoring algorithms from the Pascal VOC Challenge, Histogram of Oriented Gradients by Dalal and Triggs, Exemplar-SVM by Malisiewicz, and Latent-SVM with Deformable Part Models by Felzenszwalb, were compared to determine performance of recognition with...

This article describes the influence of infectious diseases on ancient maritime navigation and the early attempts to prevent their spread with legal regulations. In ancient times, the greatest health hazard for sailors were poor hygienic conditions, water supply, nutrition, accommodation, air, and lighting on board. These conditions favoured the development and transmission of infectious diseas...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to quantify the stress associated with performing maritime pilotage tasks in a high-fidelity simulator. METHODS Eight trainee and 13 maritime pilots completed two simulated pilotage tasks of varying complexity. Salivary cortisol samples were collected pre- and post-simulation for both trials. Heart rate was measured continuously throughout the study. RESU...