A proactive system for maritime environment monitoring

Cocco²,

Salvetti

2018

JMSE

Self Cite

Sea shipping routes have become very crowded and this, coupled with an always increasing demand of oil based products, contributes to the increase in maritime traffic density, as a consequence pollution risks have increased. Therefore, it is important to have information systems capable of detecting and monitoring environmental endangering situations like oil spills at sea. In this paper, a Marine Information System, acting as an integrated and inter-operable monitoring tool is proposed and discussed. The discussion focuses on a system that is able to integrate different data acquired from various electronic sensors, and that is inter-operable among marine operators and ship traffic authorities. The available data on the system are all geo-referenced, and flows seamlessly through the system, where they are integrated in a consistent and usable manner. An important result of this integration is the capability to produce a collection of proactive services such as Decision Support ones, which can be used to improve the functionalities and facilities concerned in an intervention operation. Through the implementation of these services, we aim to demonstrate how an efficient environmental management system could benefit from being supported by a Marine Information System that can provide the dynamic links between different data, models and actors.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Marine Information System for Environmental Monitoring: ARGO-MIS

Cocco²,

Salvetti

2018

JMSE

Self Cite

“…It uses a Generalized Linear Model (GLM) with a polynomial function. The number of variables taken into account is very limited, but the spatial mapping approach produces informative raster maps for aggregating and presenting risk estimation, similar to the dynamic risk maps presented by us in [15]. Finally, [27] developed another system for the evaluation of spatially distributed ecological risk related to oil spills.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such guidelines are then put into practice and properly demonstrated in a case study. EDSS is designed and integrated into the Marine Information System (MIS) presented in [15]. Such integration shows the advantages of decision support services for more efficient management of small and micro oil spills.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Decision Support Systems for Monitoring Small Scale Oil Spills: Existing Solutions, Best Practices and Current Challenges

Moroni

Tampucci

2019

JMSE

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In recent years, large oil spills have received widespread media attention, while small and micro oil spills are usually only acknowledged by the authorities and local citizens who are directly or indirectly affected by these pollution events. However, small oil spills represent the vast majority of oil pollution events. In this paper, multiple oil spill typologies are introduced, and existing frameworks and methods used as best practices for facing them are reviewed and discussed. Specific tools based on information and communication technologies are then presented, considering in particular those which can be used as integrated frameworks for the specific challenges of the environmental monitoring of smaller oil spills. Finally, a prototype case study actually designed and implemented for the management of existing monitoring resources is reported. This case study helps improve the discussion over the actual challenges of early detection and support to the responsible parties and stakeholders in charge of intervention and remediation operations.

“…MIS architecture was designed as a set of independent and re-configurable units. This aspect guarantees system modularity, interoperability and portability: each single unit could be re-designed, or its internal components could be modified in order to fit to specific different domains of application (or case study), without the need to re-design the whole architecture [7]. Figure 1 shows the MIS architectural design, where the composing units and sub-components are represented, along with the communication paths that exist and are needed for the MIS to work.…”

Section: Mis Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In case the service receives a report with a high confidence, it generates an alert. Moreover, the proactive services consider both the absolute value of the risk and its trend [7]. When issuing an alert, a service task is also to contact the most suitable authority selected automatically on the basis of proximity criterion, the contact occurs with all relevant information regarding the event.…”

Section: Proactive Services For Environmental Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Monitoring Integrated with a Proactive Marine Information System

Moroni

International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding (IWCIM)

Tampucci

et al. 2018

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Abstract:In the framework of environmental monitoring, the remote detection and monitoring of oil spills at sea is an important ability due to the high demand of oil based products. This situation causes, that shipping routes are very crowded and the likelihood of oil slicks occurring is also increasing. In this paper we propose a fully integrated and inter-operable information system which can act as a valuable monitoring tool. Such a marine information system is able to monitor ship traffic and marine operators by integrating heterogeneous signals and data through sensing capabilities from a variety of electronic sensors, along with geo-positioning tools, and through a communication infrastructure. This system is able to transfer the integrated data, freely and seamlessly, between different elements of the system itself (and their users). The system also provides a set of decision support services capable of performing functionalities which can act as a support for decision makers.