AIS in Action. Enhancing Maritime Domain Awareness in America’s Waterways, Ports, and Terminals

This article will describe how maritime domain awareness is critical to U.S. interests and worldwide economic stability and growth. Government agencies and other organizations are continually enhancing maritime domain awareness (MDA) programs by using Automatic Identification System (AIS) data to monitor and derive intelligence from information about real-time and historical vessel movements in major ports and waterways. The Department of Defense Executive Agent for Maritime Domain Awareness (DoD EAMDA) has recognized AIS as a potential tool for enhancing MDA initiatives. In May 2010, the EAMDA announced plans to integrate capabilities that enable non-classified information sharing to build partnership capacities. The focus of this article is to define an integration architecture that can be used for non-classified data sharing, and standardize the Virtual Regional Maritime Traffic Center suite, utilizing AIS data via an internet-based system.

• Record URL:
  http://uscg.mil/proceedings/archive/2011/Vol68_No4_Wint2011-12.pdf
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• Authors:
  • Tieman, Jason
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Maps;
• Pagination: pp 45-47
• Serial:
  • Coast Guard Journal of Safety & Security at Sea, Proceedings of the Marine Safety & Security Council
  • Volume: 68
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: U.S. Coast Guard
  • Serial URL: http://www.uscg.mil/proceedings/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic data collection systems; Data sharing; Ports; Real time data processing; Real time information; Waterways
• Identifier Terms: National Plan to Achieve Maritime Domain Awareness
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01363014
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 17 2012 8:31AM