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Commercial Workboat and Fishing Fleets Across North America Using Web-Based Boatracs BTConnect® to improve operations, safety and compliance. San Diego, California (PRWEB) May 02, 2013 Boatracs Inc., a leader in providing integrated satellite communications and software solutions to the maritime industry, announced today that over 2,000 vessels are now being managed with Boatracs BTConnect®, making it the most widely used vessel tracking and fleet management software in the U.S....
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A probe that is being touted as the "highest detection performance commercial Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite ever built" was successfully launched into a sun-synchronous polar orbit on Sunday, the UK firm that designed and assembled the craft has announced. In a July 22 statement, Guilford-based Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) confirmed that the exactView-1 satellite lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Weather Technology, Inc. (AWT) today announced the launch of its global Automatic Identification System (AIS) service, AWT Global AIS. AWT is the first in its market to provide this innovative service, using satellite data to more accurately monitor vessels beyond coastal regions on a global scale. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081016/AQTH030ALOGO) "With AWT Global AIS, we combine global satellite coverage with...
Oceans cover much of our planet and they are difficult to keep under surveillance, with the trafficking of people, unlicensed fishing and piracy adding to the problem. Satellites, however, can help keep the seas safe.Satellites monitor the entire planet and are an obvious component of an improved surveillance system.Satellite imagery can be used to locate and track vessels, monitor beaches and ports, and detect unlicensed fishing and illicit oil discharges. In addition, spaceborne receivers...
ESA's experimental ship detector on the International Space Station has pinpointed more than 60,000 ocean-going vessels so far. It has been able to follow the routes of individual ships for months at a time.Hosted by Europe's Columbus research module on the International Space Station (ISS), and activated on 1 June, the tracking system picks up Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals, more usually employed by port authorities and coastguards to keep tabs on local ship traffic.All...
Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have designed a real application for maritime surveillance that is able to integrate and unify the information from different types of sensors and data in context through artificial intelligence and data fusion techniques.The system has been designed by scientists from this Madrid university for Núcleo CC, a company which develops surveillance systems for the maritime and aeronautic sectors. The first prototype will be used in the...
Nearing the end of its third month of continuous operation, the International Space Station's ship-tracking experiment has experienced a marked increase in data quality. Now it operates along with a dedicated satellite carrying the same receiver.The Station's Columbus laboratory is being used to track Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals from ships at sea. AIS is, in a way, the marine equivalent of the air traffic control system, with commercial vessels mandated to carry AIS...
Norway launched a spacecraft on Monday with the intention to help monitor shipping in its territorial waters. The AISSat-1 satellite will track ships over 300 gross tons by picking up signals from their Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponders. AIS is used principally for collision-avoidance, and the authorities use it to keep watch on cargo, passenger and fisheries activity. The small satellite will enable Norway to see what is happening over the area. "Norway has the largest...
As the ISS circles Earth, it has begun tracking individual ships crossing the seas beneath. An experiment hosted by ESA's Columbus module is testing the viability of monitoring global traffic from the Station's orbit hundreds of kilometers up.The ship-detection system under test is based around the Automatic Identification System (AIS), the marine equivalent of the air traffic control system. All international vessels, cargo ships above certain weights and passenger carriers of all sizes...
CAMBRIDGE, ON, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - exactEarth Ltd., the data services subsidiary of COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX: CDV), today announced that it has entered into an agreement to provide its space-based Automatic Identification System (S-AIS) service, exactAIS(TM), to the Danish Maritime Safety Administration (DaMSA) on a paid trial basis. Under the agreement, exactEarth will provide DaMSA with an S-AIS data feed and value-added services for a limited time commencing with the...
