Modeling of small sea floaters in the central Mediterranean Sea: seasonality of at-sea distributions [PDF]
, 2018 Floating marine debris represent a threat to marine and coastal ecology. Since the Mediterranean basin is one of the highly impacted regions, both by the coastal pollution as well as from sea traffic, the potential harm of a floating pollution on the ...
Kumkar, Yogesh, Shchekinova, Elena
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Comparison of the Applied of Car Navigation System and Developed Marine Navigational System [PDF]
TransNav, 2014 A watch officer in sailing a ship uses many kinds of navigational information to prevent marine disasters. Especially in coastal sea area such as narrow bay or port, many ships crowds and marine disasters tend to occur more often.
Shigeaki Shiotani, Xinzhu Liu
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Marine Ship Automatic Identification System (AIS) for Enhanced Coastal Security Capabilities: An Oil Spill Tracking Application [PDF]
, 2007 National and international trade via shipping is already significant, and expected to continue increasing rapidly over the next decade. Both more ships and larger ships will contribute to this trade, includingships from countries with less rigorous ...
McGillivary, Philip A, Schwehr, Kurt
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Multicriteria Analysis of Alternative Marine Fuels in Sustainable Coastal Marine Traffic [PDF]
Applied Sciences, 2021 Marine transportation is considered to be one of the most important aspects of global transportation services. Due to the increase in marine transportation, there are significant impacts on the marine environment. One of the possible measures for mitigation of the environmental impact could be switching to environmentally friendly fuel.
Nikola Mandić +3 more
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Automatic detection, tracking and counting of birds in marine video content [PDF]
, 2016 Robust automatic detection of moving objects in a marine context is a multi-faceted problem due to the complexity of the observed scene. The dynamic nature of the sea caused by waves, boat wakes, and weather conditions poses huge challenges for the ...
Hernandez, Francisco +3 more
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Complex Assessment of Marine Traffic Safety
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2021 Abstract The paper is devoted to the problem of ensuring the safe movement of ships. The problem of assessing the safety of a traffic pattern implemented in a specific water area is considered. Five different safety metrics are introduced.
V M Grinyak +2 more
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Distribution of Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman & Procaccini in the Mediterranean Sea [PDF]
, 2019 The Non-Indigenous Species (NIS) Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman & Procaccini has been reported for the first time in the Mediterranean Sea along the coast of South Turkey.
Balistreri Paolo +4 more
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Enhancing AIS to Improve Whale-Ship Collision Avoidance and Maritime Security [PDF]
, 2009 Whale-ship strikes are of growing worldwide concern due to the steady growth of commercial shipping. Improving the current situation involves the creation of a communication capability allowing whale position information to be estimated and exchanged ...
Fall, Kevin +2 more
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Effects of vessel traffic on relative abundance and behaviour of cetaceans : the case of the bottlenose dolphins in the Archipelago de La Maddalena, north-western Mediterranean sea [PDF]
, 2016 Acknowledgements This study was part of the Tursiops Project of the Dolphin Research Centre of Caprera, La Maddalena. Financial and logistical support was provided by the Centro Turistico Studentesco (CTS) and by the National Park of the Archipelago de ...
ACA Hope +43 more
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Ship Route Planning Using Historical Trajectories Derived from AIS Data [PDF]
TransNav, 2019 Ship route planning is one of the key issues in enhancing traffic safety and efficiency. Many route planning methods have been developed, but most of them are based on the information from charts.
Yan Kang He +4 more
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