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Maritime Activities Observed Through Open-Access Positioning Data: Moving and Stationary Vessels in the Baltic Sea

Geomatics
Understanding past and present maritime activity patterns is critical for navigation safety, environmental assessment, and commercial operations. An increasing number of services now openly provide positioning data from the Automatic Identification ...
Moritz Hütten
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-Sensor Integration for Maritime Situational Awareness: A Systematic Review of Traffic Surveillance Technologies

Journal of Maritime Policy Science
The rapid development of maritime transportation, autonomous navigation, and digital surveillance has increased the need for reliable Maritime Situational Awareness (MSA) based on complementary sensing sources.
Kiki Ambar Purwanti, Abdul Rivai Ras, Yusnaldi Yusnaldi   +2 more
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Simulation analysis of water area in inland waterway service area

Shuili Shuiyun Gongcheng Xuebao, 2019
The inland waterway service area (IWSA) is an important auxiliary navigation facility along the inland waterway, which provides special services including berthing and replenishing of daily necessities for vessels and mariners during their voyages.
HAN Peng, LIAO Peng, LIU Zhongwei, NI Bing   +3 more
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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
wiley   +1 more source

Leveraging Radar and VTS for Enhanced Oil Spill Detection [PDF]

TransNav
The Norwegian Clean Seas Association for Operating Companies (NOFO) conducted oil-on-water exercises in 2018 to evaluate new oil spill response technologies, including advanced radar systems.
Michele Fiorini, Roberto Trevisani
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Family Work Among the Astors

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
wiley   +1 more source

Grid-based extension method for anchor circle decision using ship-specific characteristics

Brodogradnja
With the global increase in maritime cargo volume and vessel size, accurate anchor circle determination is crucial for safe and efficient anchorage management.
Gil-Ho Shin, Hyun Yang
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Applications and Benefits for the Development of Cartographic 3D Visualization Systems in support of Maritime Safety [PDF]

TransNav, 2011
Maritime shipping is among the world?s most important industries and is vital to the global economy. With growing levels of traffic marine accidents pose a danger to health and lives of ship crews, en-vironment, and have a strong impact on profitability ...
Rafal Goralski, Cyril Ray, Chris Gold
doaj  

Sustainable Development Goals Applied to the Maritime Transportation Sector: Setting Sail for the Future

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims to eradicate poverty, protect the environment, and promote prosperity through 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Achieving these goals requires a multi‐sectoral approach. Maritime transportation, vital to the global economy, significantly contributes to several SDGs and plays a strategic ...
Cátia Sousa, Ana Brasão, Tiago Silva, Stanislau Tserashkovich   +3 more
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