Gun Suk Yoo, Dong Il Kim, Dong Soo Choi Department of Radio Communication Engineering, Korea Maritime University Dongsam-Dong, Youngdo-Ku, Busan, 606-791, Korea, [email protected] Department of Radio Communication Engineering, Korea Maritime University Dongsam-Dong, Youngdo-Ku, Busan, 606-791, Korea, [email protected] Department of Radio Communication Engineering, Korea Maritime University D...

Two overarching trends are arising as particularly important, especially for developing countries. First, developing countries have, over recent years, been increasingly fuelling global economic growth, merchandise trade and demand for maritime transport services. Second, increased specialization in the supply of maritime transport services has gathered traction as developing countries continue...

Priorities for improving maritime health, and hence the allocation of resources to them, should depend on estimates of the frequency and severity of health risks and on estimates of the effectiveness of the available interventions in reducing the impact of illness and injury. They need to address two questions: ‘what matters?’ (the risks) and ‘what works? (the interventions). Much current marit...

Maritime assets such as merchant and navy ships, ports, and harbors, are targets of terrorist attacks as evidenced by the USS Cole bombing. Conventional methods of securing maritime assets to prevent attacks are manually intensive and error prone. To address this shortcoming, we are developing a decision support system that shall alert security personnel to potential attacks by automatically pr...

Maritime traffic surveillance requires a very accurate and continuous analysis of the sea. This area consists of many different objects, actors and rules. Monitoring such a wide and complex area requires adapted visual tools, such as Maritime Surveillance Systems. These tools help identifying abnormal behaviours, which can lead to risky situations. We investigate the usability of visual analyti...

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...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to evaluate gender differences in depression scores of Iranian and German medical students. METHODS Two hundred Iranian medical students (100 men and 100 women) and 200 German medical students (100 men and 100 women) were selected randomly and completed the English form of the self-rating Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). RESULTS Analysis gave a mean rating of 10.7 ± 6....

Maritime traffic patterns extraction is an essential part for maritime security and surveillance and DBSCANSD is a density based clustering algorithm extracting the arbitrary shapes of the normal lanes from AIS data. This paper presents a parallel DBSCANSD algorithm on top of Apache Spark. The project is an experimental research work and the results shown in this paper is preliminary. The exper...

Today’s and future communication systems in maritime rely on digital data communication between the ship and transceivers that are either on land, in air (satellite) or on sea. Analog voice communications is not an integrated part of future maritime communication system proposals. However, it is in general preserved in its functionality according to future maritime communication system proposal...