Integrated maritime picture for surveillance and monitoring applications

This paper presents the outcomes of the EC FP7 NEREIDS project focused to move forward to an integrated maritime picture for ship surveillance and monitoring applications. Technical details about the system philosophy and how different external add-in modules are integrated into a common system kernel are provided, jointly with the main results about the integration tests. The main algorithms used to process and cross-correlate the different inputs are briefly described. The results of the different campaigns conducted during 2013 are detailed with the aim to highlight the importance of correlating the information gathered by different data sources into a unique space. Once analyzed, the data confirm how user procedures would be notably improved by adopting the proposed integrated solution.