MARITIME MULTI-SENSORDATAASSOCIATIONBASED ON GEOGRAPHICAND NAVIGATIONALKNOWLEDGE
Michele Vespe, Massimo Sciotti, Fabrizio Burro, Giulia Battistello, Stefano Sorge · 2008
The integration of current traffic monitoring operational systems in the field of maritime surveillance is widely ac knowledged as a key requirement for borders control and illegal trafficking prevention. In this paper, an overview of the Satellite-Extended-Vessel Traffic Service (SEV) systemfor in-situ and Earth Observation (EO) data association is pre sented. The description ofthe cognitive data correlation con cept shows the benefits brought to the resulting Maritime Recognised Picture (RMP) in supporting decision making andsituation awareness applications.