Exploiting AIS Data for Intelligent Maritime Navigation: A Comprehensive Survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews how AIS data can be utilized for enhancing maritime navigation safety, security, and efficiency through various data-driven applications like anomaly detection and collision prediction.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of AIS data sources and explores their potential in improving maritime navigation safety and decision-making.

Findings

AIS data enables effective traffic anomaly detection

AIS data supports accurate route estimation and collision prediction

AIS data can be exploited for advanced path planning

Abstract

The Automatic Identification System (AIS) tracks vessel movement by means of electronic exchange of navigation data between vessels, with onboard transceiver, terrestrial and/or satellite base stations. The gathered data contains a wealth of information useful for maritime safety, security and efficiency. This paper surveys AIS data sources and relevant aspects of navigation in which such data is or could be exploited for safety of seafaring, namely traffic anomaly detection, route estimation, collision prediction and path planning.