Various multisensor data fusion architectures have been utilized to support the Maritime Surveillance (MS) in maritime tactical and strategic operations. The military tactical situation is mechanized through data fusion thus improving the quality of target tracking system. One of the major problems is that the surveillance area is generally large, hence making it difficult to arrive at a feasib...

In 1999, 69 people survived a maritime disaster on the Norwegian coast, during which 16 others died. Besides immediate psychosocial assistance, post-disaster intervention included psychological debriefings after one week, follow-up debriefing a month later, screening of those in need of individual help, and help for those returning to the scene of the disaster. The results of the psychometric t...

The “Software Package for Aerosol Size Distribution” is a novel graphical user interface application software used for the study of atmospheric aerosol size distribution from various aerosol models (Continental clean, Continental average, Continental polluted, Urban, Desert, Maritime clean, Maritime polluted, Maritime tropical, Arctic, Antarctic) and/or with different aerosol components (insolu...

Surveillance systems for the maritime domain are becoming more and more important. However, available technology still provides only a limited support to this kind of applications. In this book chapter, we describe a framework for intelligent surveillance in the maritime domain, designed for fusing information from heterogeneous sources. Electro-optical cameras are used as main sensors, in orde...

This paper aims to present a model to analyze the systemic effects arising from the collaboration policies among the manufacturing industries, which use the maritime transportation to execute the exportation. It was researched about the Collaborative Logistics era and the Collaborative Transportation Management and, in order to validate the study proposal and to obtain data to insert in the mod...

Naval at sea (maritime tactical) networks are characterised by a dynamic, heterogeneous, and low-bandwidth environment. There is a critical need for Traffic Engineering (TE) mechanisms to support traffic prioritisation and resource optimisation in this environment. A desirable management service in this environment is end-to-end guaranteed bandwidth for critical application flows. Solutions suc...

The EU-funded research project MARVIN (EP29049) is developing software to operate a web-based virtual enterprise in the maritime industry, specifically in the area of scheduled and unscheduled repair. The main tool being developed is a prototype of a Maritime Enterprise Integration Tool (MEIT) which is based on multi-agent technology. One of the tasks of this project was to develop a legal fram...

To be able to disseminate knowledge about maritime safety culture and safety management to different actors in the Swedish maritime sector, a preliminary pedagogical concept was developed and evaluated. As a first user group, students at upper secondary maritime schools were chosen and the pedagogical concept was adapted for this group. The concept includes an interactive prototype and a teache...

System reliability assessment is one of the major acts in the operation and maintenance of every industrial and service sector, which also holds true for maritime transportation system. The complexity of the maritime transportation system is a prime obstacle in the evaluation of the operational reliability of the system; mainly due to the fact that statistical data on the important parameters a...

Against a background of widespread concern amongst maritime regulators, responsible ship owners, Pand I clubs, seafarers’ welfare organisations and trade unions, two recent pieces of our research provide insights into different aspects of the problem of maritime fatigue. A long history of research into working hours and conditions and their performance effects in process industries, road transp...