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Maritime Information Sensing and Big Data

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2024 | Viewed by 12818

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Peng Peng

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State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: geographical information science; spatial and temporal information modelling; complex network analysis; knowledge graph
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Prof. Dr. Feng Lu

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State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: geographical information science; spatio-temporal databases; geo-spatial data mining; machine learning; complex network analysis; NLP; computational transportation science
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Prof. Dr. Yu Yang

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Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: energy geography; economic geography; international trade; complex network analysis
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Prof. Dr. Tianzhen Wang

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Department of Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China
Interests: fault diagnosis; fault tolerance fault detection; control systems; control theory; tidal and wave power
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the rapid development of data monitoring sensors, the maritime industry generates roughly 100-120 million data points every day, from different sources such as vessel movements. Through its application and insights, maritime big data are creating some new opportunities to drive innovation and deliver tangible operational efficiencies across the maritime domain. On the one hand, shipping companies are recognizing the utility of data to enrich and support decision-making processes that help predict, understand, and improve business operations and resilience. On the other hand, scholars or policy makers are conducting a real-time trade analysis on a fine spatial-temporal scale via maritime big data, with the aim of understanding global or regional macroeconomic trends and export trade trends. This Special Issue will highlight advances in the development, testing, and modeling of maritime information sensing and its applications. Submissions focusing on, but not limited to, the following areas are particularly welcome:

  • Large-scale maritime navigation multi-sensor tracking (AIS, remote sensing, radar, lidar, satellite, electromagnetic sensing, etc.);
  • Integration and monitoring, data fusion, AI and machine learning, analysis and visualization, and forecasting, planning and decision-making the maritime big data;
  • Maritime big data supporting international trade studies and decision making (maritime GIS, remote sensing, complex networks, etc.);
  • Real-time interfaces and new visualization and mapping methods for maritime big data;
  • Maritime big data applications (security, disaster prevention, protecting the environment, energy, etc.)

Dr. Peng Peng
Prof. Dr. Feng Lu
Prof. Dr. Yu Yang
Prof. Dr. Tianzhen Wang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • maritime big data
  • international trade
  • maritime GIS
  • complex networks
  • visualization and mapping
  • data applications

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23 pages, 2984 KiB  
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BATMAN: A Brain-like Approach for Tracking Maritime Activity and Nuance
by Alexander Jones, Stephan Koehler, Michael Jerge, Mitchell Graves, Bayley King, Richard Dalrymple, Cody Freese and James Von Albade
Sensors 2023, 23(5), 2424; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23052424 - 22 Feb 2023
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As commercial geospatial intelligence data becomes more widely available, algorithms using artificial intelligence need to be created to analyze it. Maritime traffic is annually increasing in volume, and with it the number of anomalous events that might be of interest to law enforcement [...] Read more.
As commercial geospatial intelligence data becomes more widely available, algorithms using artificial intelligence need to be created to analyze it. Maritime traffic is annually increasing in volume, and with it the number of anomalous events that might be of interest to law enforcement agencies, governments, and militaries. This work proposes a data fusion pipeline that uses a mixture of artificial intelligence and traditional algorithms to identify ships at sea and classify their behavior. A fusion process of visual spectrum satellite imagery and automatic identification system (AIS) data was used to identify ships. Further, this fused data was further integrated with additional information about the ship’s environment to help classify each ship’s behavior to a meaningful degree. This type of contextual information included things such as exclusive economic zone boundaries, locations of pipelines and undersea cables, and the local weather. Behaviors such as illegal fishing, trans-shipment, and spoofing are identified by the framework using freely or cheaply accessible data from places such as Google Earth, the United States Coast Guard, etc. The pipeline is the first of its kind to go beyond the typical ship identification process to help aid analysts in identifying tangible behaviors and reducing the human workload. Full article
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A Quasi-Intelligent Maritime Route Extraction from AIS Data
by Shem Otoi Onyango, Solomon Amoah Owiredu, Kwang-Il Kim and Sang-Lok Yoo
Sensors 2022, 22(22), 8639; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22228639 - 09 Nov 2022
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The rapid development and adoption of automatic identification systems as surveillance tools have resulted in the widespread application of data analysis technology in maritime surveillance and route planning. Traditional, manual, experience-based route planning has been widely used owing to its simplicity. However, the [...] Read more.
The rapid development and adoption of automatic identification systems as surveillance tools have resulted in the widespread application of data analysis technology in maritime surveillance and route planning. Traditional, manual, experience-based route planning has been widely used owing to its simplicity. However, the method is heavily dependent on officer experience and is time-consuming. This study aims to extract shipping routes using unsupervised machine-learning algorithms. The proposed three-step approach: maneuvering point detection, waypoint discovery, and traffic network construction was used to construct a maritime traffic network from historical AIS data, which quantitatively reflects ship characteristics by ship length and ship type, and can be used for route planning. When the constructed maritime traffic network was compared to the macroscopic ship traffic flow, the Symmetrized Segment-Path Distance (SSPD) metric returned lower values, indicating that the constructed traffic network closely resembles the routes ships transit. The result indicates that the proposed approach is effective in extracting a route from the maritime traffic network. Full article
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How Does a Port Build Influence? Diffusion Patterns in Global Oil Transportation
by Peng Peng, Christophe Claramunt, Shifen Cheng and Feng Lu
Sensors 2022, 22(22), 8595; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22228595 - 08 Nov 2022
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Ports play a critical role in the global oil trade market, and those with significant influence have an implicit advantage in global oil transportation. In order to offer a thorough understanding of port influences, the research presented in this paper analyzes the evolution [...] Read more.
Ports play a critical role in the global oil trade market, and those with significant influence have an implicit advantage in global oil transportation. In order to offer a thorough understanding of port influences, the research presented in this paper analyzes the evolution of the dominance mechanisms underlying port influence diffusion. Our study introduces a port influence diffusion model to outline global oil transport patterns. It examines the direct and indirect influence of ports using worldwide vessel trajectory data from 2009 to 2016. Port influences are modelled via diffusion patterns and the resulting ports influenced. The results of the case study applied to specific ports show different patterns and influence evolutions. Four main port influence trends are identified. The first one is that ports that have a strong direct influence over their neighboring ports materialize a directly influenced area. Second, geographical distance still plays an important role in the whole port influence patterns. Third, it clearly appears that, the higher the number of directly influenced ports, the higher the probability of having an influence pattern, as revealed by the diffusion process. The peculiarity of this approach is that, in contrast to previous studies, global maritime trade is analyzed in terms of direct and indirect influences and according to oil trade flows. Full article
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AIS Trajectories Simplification Algorithm Considering Topographic Information
by Wonhee Lee and Sung-Won Cho
Sensors 2022, 22(18), 7036; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22187036 - 17 Sep 2022
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With the development of maritime technology and equipment, most ships are equipped with an automatic identification system (AIS) to store navigation information. Over time, the size of the data increases, rendering its storage and processing difficult. Hence, it is necessary to transform the [...] Read more.
With the development of maritime technology and equipment, most ships are equipped with an automatic identification system (AIS) to store navigation information. Over time, the size of the data increases, rendering its storage and processing difficult. Hence, it is necessary to transform the AIS data into trajectories, and then simplify the AIS trajectories to remove unnecessary information that is not related to route shape. Moreover, topographic information must be considered because otherwise, the simplified trajectory can intersect obstacles. In this study, we propose an AIS trajectory simplification algorithm considering topographic information. The proposed algorithm simplifies the trajectories without the intersection of the trajectory and obstacle using the improved Douglas–Peucker algorithm. Polygon map random (PMR) quadtree was used to consider topographic information on the coast, and the intersection between topographic information and simplified trajectories was efficiently computed using the PMR quadtree. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, experiments were conducted on real-world trajectories in the Korean sea. The proposed algorithm yielded simplified trajectories with no intersections of the trajectory and obstacle. In addition, the computational efficiency of the proposed algorithm with the PMR quadtree was superior to that without the PMR quadtree. Full article
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Global Container Port Network Linkages and Topology in 2021
by Lu Kang, Wenzhou Wu, Hao Yu and Fenzhen Su
Sensors 2022, 22(15), 5889; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22155889 - 07 Aug 2022
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The maritime transport of containers between ports accounts for the bulk of global trade by weight and value. Transport impedance among ports through transit times and port infrastructures can, however, impact accessibility, trade performance, and the attractiveness of ports. Assessments of the transit [...] Read more.
The maritime transport of containers between ports accounts for the bulk of global trade by weight and value. Transport impedance among ports through transit times and port infrastructures can, however, impact accessibility, trade performance, and the attractiveness of ports. Assessments of the transit routes between ports based on performance and attractiveness criteria can provide a topological liner shipping network that quantifies the performance profile of ports. Here, we constructed a directed global liner shipping network (GLSN) of the top six liner shipping companies between the ports of Africa, Asia, North/South America, Europe, and Oceania. Network linkages and community groupings were quantified through a container port accessibility evaluation model, which quantified the performance of the port using betweenness centrality, the transport impedance among ports with the transit time, and the performance of ports using the Port Liner Shipping Connectivity Index. The in-degree and out-degree of the GLSN conformed to the power-law distribution, respectively, and their R-square fitting accuracy was greater than 0.96. The community partition illustrated an obvious consistence with the actual trading flow. The accessibility evaluation result showed that the ports in Asia and Europe had a higher accessibility than those of other regions. Most of the top 30 ports with the highest accessibility are Asian (17) and European (10) ports. Singapore, Port Klang, and Rotterdam have the highest accessibility. Our research may be helpful for further studies such as species invasion and the planning of ports. Full article
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A Formal and Visual Data-Mining Model for Complex Ship Behaviors and Patterns
by Yongfeng Suo, Yuxiang Ji, Zhenye Zhang, Jinhai Chen and Christophe Claramunt
Sensors 2022, 22(14), 5281; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22145281 - 14 Jul 2022
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The successful emergence of real-time positioning systems in the maritime domain has favored the development of data infrastructures that provide valuable monitoring and decision-aided systems. However, there is still a need for the development of data mining approaches oriented to the detection of [...] Read more.
The successful emergence of real-time positioning systems in the maritime domain has favored the development of data infrastructures that provide valuable monitoring and decision-aided systems. However, there is still a need for the development of data mining approaches oriented to the detection of specific patterns such as unusual ship behaviors and collision risks. This research introduces a CSBP (complex ship behavioral pattern) mining model aiming at the detection of ship patterns. The modeling approach first integrates ship trajectories from automatic identification system (AIS) historical data, then categorizes different vessels’ navigation behaviors, and introduces a visual-oriented framework to characterize and highlight such patterns. The potential of the model is illustrated by a case study applied to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang waters in China. The results show that the CSBP mining model can highlight complex ships’ behavioral patterns over long periods, thus providing a valuable environment for supporting ship traffic management and preventing maritime accidents. Full article
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