INTEGRATED SHIP MONITORING SYSTEM FOR REALTIME MARITIME SURVEILLANCE

Abstract

The paper introduces an integrated ship monitoring system, which has been designed and developed with the purpose of real-time maritime surveillance. The integrated system now provides ship information such as position, flag, type etc. over maritime in real-time through the automatic download, processing and visualization steps of data collected from terrestrial-and satellite-based automatic identification systems (AIS) and Sentinel-1. The collected AIS and FMCW radar data are the main source for the real-time remote maritime surveillance, and the SAR-based automatic ship detection system is operated as a SAR mode to integrate the past data because of a time delay in the Sentinel-1 acquisition. The radar and land-based AIS were installed at an ocean tower off the west coast of South Korea. This system will support a rapid and effective surveillance over a huge oceanic area. maritime in real-time through the automatic download, processing and visualization steps of data collected from terrestrial-and satellite-based automatic identification systems (AIS) and Sentinel-1. The collected AIS and FMCW radar data are the main source for the real-time remote maritime surveillance, and the SAR-based automatic ship detection system is operated as a SAR mode to integrate the past data because of a time delay in the Sentinel-1 acquisition. The radar and land-based AIS were installed at an ocean tower off the west coast of South Korea. This system will support a rapid and effective surveillance over a huge oceanic area.