1. MEOPAR ASM 2017 - Montréal QC, Canada
Shipping Risk Panel
MEOPAR ASM Montréal QC, Canada

2. Big Data Institute S-AIS Data Mining
Casey Hilliard

3. (Related) Institute Goals
To build capability within the institute as an international centre for AIS data modelling and analysis techniques
To partner with researchers and institutions to who may avail of the HQP and hardware available to the institute

4. MEOPAR/exactEarth/Dalhousie S-AIS Initiative
Supported by the Institute (data hosting)
Database, backup, analytical support
Geospatial DB platform (Postgis)
Also Solr, IBM PureData assets available
Fast spatial query / prototyping webapp developed on Solr index
IBM PureData also prototyped as fast “static” data access

5. Earlier Works: Vessel Traffic Analysis
Trajectory clustering
Knowledge-based clustering of ship trajectories using density-based approach (Liu et al. 2014)
Anomaly detection
Anomaly detection in maritime data based on geometrical analysis of trajectories (Soleimani et al. 2015)
Ship movement anomaly detection using specialized distance measures (Liu et al. 2015)

6. Global Fishing Detection Using S-AIS Data
Fishing activity detection algorithms developed in collaboration with Dal Biology (WormLab)
“Improving fishing pattern detection from satellite ais using data mining and machine learning” (de Souza, Boerder, et al. 2016)
Initially detecting trawler and longline; purse seiner in development
Improving, visualizing “Identifying fishing activities from AIS data with Conditional Random Fields” (Hu et al. 2016)
Refining performance by including distance from shore
Recently Incorporated into webapp
Leveraging Solr index
Development ongoing

7. Webapp
Interface

8. Webapp “Demo” AIS Reports with detected fishing Weekly for 2013-07
Each image =
aggregate over 1 week
Interactive map
Scalebar approximate*

9. Upcoming Works: Vessel Remoteness Visualization Webapp
- Animation of vessel remoteness
- Measured against vessels and communities
- To increase awareness of risks in remote areas of vessel operation
Ballast Water Compliance Analysis
- Comparative analysis of vessel ballast reports against transits
- To assess feasibility / available methods for automation (tech demo)
- Including novel enrichment
(-- bathymetry)