Simulation environment for maritime safety and security systems

Efficient monitoring and management of maritime activities is a critical task for all coastal states. As maritime traffic increases so too do the risk and impact of accidents, pollution and criminal activities. The goal of the "Simulation Environment for Maritime Safety and Security Systems" project to design and implement a Simulation Framework that is capable of producing realistic simulations of a collection of sensors observing different possible maritime events such as collisions, criminal activities. In order to achieve these goals following technical objectives were realized a.) Fusing different Automatic Identification System (AIS) datasets, b.) Simulate different sensor of different coverage and c.) Collect data related to vessel from various websites. d.) Generate System Tracks. The System Tracks describe different sensors observing sequences of events and are expressed in the NIEM XML format. The Simulation Framework simulates the sensors of different coverage using the concept of "Sensoring"- a technique used to filter the large maritime area based on the range of the sensor. The Simulation Framework that we have conceived in this project would be helpful for testing and simulating different sensors types and coverage and train monitoring personnel.