Authorized Distributor for:
Maritime Domain Awareness:
Mapping, Tracking, and Visualization
What is Maritime Domain Awareness?
• Maritime Domain: All areas and things of, on, under, relating to, adjacent to, or bordering on a sea, ocean, or other
navigable waterway, including all maritime related activities, infrastructure, people, cargo, and vessels and other
conveyances.
• Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA): The effective
understanding of anything associated with the global maritime domain that could impact the security, safety, economy or
environment of a nation.
• References
– NSPD-41: National Maritime Security Policy (21 Dec 04)
• Maritime Domain Awareness is a component of and key enabler for Maritime Security.
• Maritime Security (MARSEC): The condition in which a nation’s sovereignty, interests, resources, and citizens and their property in the maritime domain are protected, and
able to recover rapidly from threats including but not limited to terrorism, weapons proliferation, transnational crime,
piracy, environmental destruction, and illegal seaborne immigration.
Why is MDA Important?
Who Is Responsible for MDA?
Maritime Domain Awareness
DHS – US Coast
Guard
National Maritime Intelligence
Center
DOT - MARAD DOD --
US Navy
Four Executive Agents for MDA in the U.S. Government
Who Is Responsible for MDA?
Maritime Domain Awareness
Maritime The Industry
COCOMS
Coalition Partners
Other Federal Agencies The IC
Defense Industry
State and Local Governments Port
Authorities
Many Other Stakeholder and Actors (Not Exhaustive…)
• Chan Smith – COM DEV USA (Defense Industry)
• Mark Guzman – C3F MDA SME, Third Fleet, US Navy
• Rodney Jacques – US Navy Fleet Weather Center
• John Stastny – SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific
Presenting Today
• The Maritime Domain:
– Natural Environment –
• BioGeoChemical Systems
• Marine Ecosystems
• Weather and Climate Systems
– Human Environment –
• Infrastructure
• Economic Systems
• Geopolitical Systems
• People
• Static and Dynamic Attributes 2D, 3D and 4D Modeling and Visualization
• Remote Sensing and GIS as Key Tools for MDA
What is the Role of Mapping,
Tracking, and Visualization?
ExactAIS™ System
Global Remote Sensing of Vessels
Satellite Constellation
• Five satellites in orbit now
• Three additional Satellite launches – 2011- 2012
Earth Stations
• 9 Available Earth Stations
• Encrypted transfer to Data Center
Data Center
• Located in highly secure facility in Canada
• Signals processed into AIS messages and converted to deliverable formats
Customer Delivery
• Industry standard formats such as NMEA, OTH-Gold KML, or XML
• Encrypted data streaming or file transfer
• Value added services available
End-to-End Solution for Increased Maritime Domain Awareness
Remote Sensing:
AIS Messages Detected from Space
• IMO mandated Collision Avoidance and Traffic Management System Installed on more than 60,000 vessels – provides vessel ID, position, course and speed
Typical satellite
field of view is
3000 miles across
Many AIS cells in field of view;
exactEarth resolves message interference LOCAL CELL
• Five Current Commercial AIS Satellites
– Projects Underway With the U.S. Navy & U.S. Coast Guard
• Including two with SPAWAR (John Stastny)
– Agreements in Place With Other Governments: South Africa, Japan, Singapore, Chile, Canada, Australia
• Three Additional full time polar orbiting satellites launching between Fall 2011 and end of 2012
• Current Performance: 40,000 – 45,000 vessels detected daily; permits tracking and reconstruction of past movement
• Fully compatible with ESRI Arc suite of products, including Tracking Server (ESRI Business Partner)
exactAIS™ Providing Valuable MDA
Data to Maritime Authorities
• Examples of AIS Applications:
– Marine Protected Environments – Vessel Tracking
– Search & Rescue – Oil Spill Response – Southeastern Region – Inland Waterways – Piracy
– Illegal Unreported and Unregulated (IUU)Fishing
Examples
• Geographic Area of Interest: Cape Verde EEZ plus 200 NM Buffer
• Data As of January 31, 2011
• MMSI Numbers Displayed for Each Vessel; Other Data Available from Our Archives, Such as Ship Name, Flag, Etc.
More on Illegal Unreported and
Unregulated (IUU)Fishing
All Vessels In the Cape Verde
Region
All Vessels in EEZ Plus 200 NM
Buffer
All Foreign Vessels
All Foreign Fishing Vessels
Movements of Foreign Fishing Vessels for the 4 Days Prior to January 31, 2011
One Foreign Fishing Vessel Persistently Observed In EEZ
• Merges data streams
• Provides identification information
– MMSI, IMO, name and type
• Positional Validation
– Cross reference with radar position
• Navigational data
– Course and speed
• Facilitates identification of ships of interest
exactAIS™ - Fusion with Radar &
Other Remote Sensing Data
AIS Ship Identification
Data
Radar Imagery
MMSI: 891212312 Name: Peregrine Falcon
MMSI: 891212376 Name: Millenium Falcon
MMSI: 989889981 Name: Seaborne Falcon
MMSI: UNKNOWN Name: UNKNOWN MMSI: 129012659 Name: Maltese Falcon
Copyright © Canadian Space Agency and MDA
• Advanced Satellite AIS Detection Technology – Commercial Open Source Data - Unclassified
• exactAIS™ Service Available
– 5 Satellites now, 6 By End of 2011, 8 by end of 2012
• Compatible with ESRI Suite of Tools – Powerful Data Base Manipulation, Mapping, Tracking and Visualization Capabilities
• Historical Archives Being Built up – Will Eventually Cover 10 years
• Support for Maritime Domain Awareness Maritime Security
