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Currently working in this space on orbital sensor systems, there are about to be a lot of fun ways to hunt these dark vessels and ID them/track them back to the

Currently working in this space on orbital sensor systems, there are about to be a lot of fun ways to hunt these dark vessels and ID them/track them back to their ports. For instance, there are already small satellite constellations that can geo-locate and profile them based on their other RF emissions aside from AIS. The space is also heating up rapidly as this is becoming a national defense priority for a number of different countries that don't want to deal with illegal fishing among a host of other issues that anonymous vessels near their shores present.

bjornbsm 3y ago
This is really interesting, du you mind maybe sharing some names of companies or research papers here? I am working with this topic myself in my phd, however more from the AIS perspective. While AIS is a great data source it is indeed easy to fool, all these initiatives to illuminate the dark spots are very interesting.
- tony_cannistra 3y ago
  Unseenlabs is an example: https://unseenlabs.space/ https://unseenlabs.space/
  - bjornbsm 3y ago
    Thank you for that suggestion, I will check them out!
- AnarchismIsCool 3y ago
  There's a bunch of work with sentinel sar sats and a few others tracking marine VHF and radar emissions. I can't go much into the newer efforts though unfortunately. What is your specific PhD interest?
  - bjornbsm 3y ago
    Thank you for your suggestions! I'm mainly looking at how we can use AIS data to gain knowledge about the maritime domain, with an emphasis on fisheries in the north (norwegian sea and the rest of the arctic) , but as there is so many interesting cases here I constantly go down side paths admittedly, especially if you pull in things like operations research and the newer advances of deep learning.