Multi-Source Data Supported Maritime Traffic Knowledge Discovery for Autonomous Ship Navigation
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2026 | Viewed by 77
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intelligent transportation; engineering; smart ships; intelligent navigation; traffic flow analysis
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Interests: marine information technology; ocean sensor networks; WSN; distributed computing; ocean big data
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Interests: intelligent navigation; artificial intelligent, maritime data mining
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Interests: intelligent navigation; artificial intelligent; smart sensor
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The shipping industry has become a critical component of global logistics along with continuous advancements in science and technology. Smart ships are proposed and developed for the purpose of enhancing maritime traffic safety and efficiency. Multi-source maritime data supported traffic situation awareness and knowledge discovery helps smart ships obtain precise traffic environmental information. Smart ships may encounter varied yet unexpected navigation challenges. For instance, smart ships may fail to identify nearby ships under adverse weather conditions even if they are deployed with varied visual/ non-visual sensors. In this way, smart ships may make unreasonable navigation decisions, which can trigger severe maritime traffic accidents. We also recommended developing robust ship navigation and identification models to help autonomous ships safely sail in waterways, such as ship detection and collision avoidance, ship route optimization, etc.
The Special Issue aims to open a new perspective on maritime traffic knowledge discovery via multi-source data towards smart ship navigation. We welcome the submission of manuscripts which align with our Special Issue topic of “Multi-Source Data Supported Maritime Traffic Knowledge Discovery for Autonomous Ship Navigation”. The sample topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Large language model based maritime traffic knowledge discovery;
- Embodied intelligence for autonomous ship navigation;
- Lightweight smart ship visual navigation model exploitation;
- Multi-source maritime data supported traffic situation awareness;
- Traffic information exploitation under adverse weather;
- Multi-source maritime data fusion and semantic knowledge modeling;
- Ship collision avoidance based ship detection, tracking via deep learning model;
- Ship path planning and route optimization;
- Embodied intelligence based smart ship navigation and control.
Dr. Xinqiang Chen
Prof. Dr. Huafeng Wu
Prof. Dr. Dezhi Han
Dr. Octavian Postolache
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart ship
- autonomous ship navigation
- maritime traffic knowledge discovery
- large language model
- embodied intelligence
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