title: A proactive system for maritime environment monitoring.
abstract: The ability to remotely detect and monitor oil spills is becoming increasingly important due to the high demand of oil-based products. Indeed, shipping routes are becoming very crowded and the likelihood of oil slick occurrence is increasing. In this frame, a fully integrated remote sensing system can be a valuable monitoring tool. We propose an integrated and interoperable system able to monitor ship traffic and marine operators, using sensing capabilities from a variety of electronic sensors, along with geo-positioning tools, and through a communication infrastructure. Our system is capable of transferring heterogeneous data, freely and seamlessly, between different elements of the information system (and their users) in a consistent and usable form. The system also integrates a collection of decision support services providing proactive functionalities. Such services demonstrate the potentiality of the system in facilitating dynamic links among different data, models and actors, as indicated by the performed field tests.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Information Science and Technologies, ISTI-CNR, 56124 Pisa, Italy. Electronic address: Davide.Moroni@isti.cnr.it.
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moroni
authors.affiliation: Institute of Information Science and Technologies, ISTI-CNR, 56124 Pisa, Italy. Electronic address: Gabriele.Pieri@isti.cnr.it.
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pieri
authors.affiliation: Institute of Information Science and Technologies, ISTI-CNR, 56124 Pisa, Italy. Electronic address: Marco.Tampucci@isti.cnr.it.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tampucci
authors.affiliation: Institute of Information Science and Technologies, ISTI-CNR, 56124 Pisa, Italy. Electronic address: Ovidio.Salvetti@isti.cnr.it.
authors.forename: Ovidio
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Salvetti
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D062305:Geographic Mapping; D006115:Greece; D007558:Italy; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D059392:Petroleum Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D012767:Ships
keywords: Environmental Decision Support Systems; Marine Information Systems; Oil spill monitoring; Proactive environmental services; Real-time monitoring