Architecture of Maritime Awareness System Supplied with External Information

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss a software architecture, which has been developed for the needs of the System for Intelligent Maritime Monitoring (SIMMO). The system bases on the state-of-the-art information fusion and intelligence analysis techniques, which generates an enhanced Recognized Maritime Picture and thus supports situation analysis and decision- making. The SIMMO system aims to automatically fuse an up-to-date maritime data from Automatic Identification System (AIS) and open Internet sources. Based on collected data, data analysis is performed to detect suspicious vessels. Functionality of the system is realized in a number of different modules (web crawlers, data fusion, anomaly detection, visualization modules) that share the AIS and external data stored in the system’s database. The aim of this article is to demonstrate how external information can be leveraged in maritime awareness system and what software solutions are necessary. A working system is presented as a proof of concept.

Maritime anomaly detection: A review

“…An example of this kind is “ConTraffic” (Varfis et al, ). Web‐service‐based systems for maritime situational awareness are Dai and Liu () and Dimitrova, Mazzola, and Tsois (), while a more focus on architectural issues and solutions for providing maritime awareness are presented in Stróżyna, Małyszko, Węcel, Filipiak, and Abramowicz () and Zissis, Xidias, and Lekkas (). Several are the commercial ventures and real‐world applications found with strong ties to research in this area, even if they are not always well‐documented, for example, Sjöbasis (Sweden), Oversee (Portugal), ABM (EMSA), AMIS (Australia), MSA Brite (NATO), etc (Table ).…”