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Safety and Risk Management in Offshore Activities
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Safety and Risk Management in Offshore Activities

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: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 2600

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Dejan Nikolic

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Hensoldt Sensors, ISR and Space Radar Engineering, Immenstaad, Germany
Interests: remote sensing; marine and maritime surveillance; multi-functional radar systems; radar performance modeling; sensor data fusion

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Risks in offshore activities are higher than ever today, which sets maritime safety as one of the most fundamental requirements in modern seafaring. In order to properly address risks and increase safety in offshore activities, accurate and real-time monitoring of seas and oceans is strongly required to provide relevant organizations, governments, and agencies with data and tools to support decision-making processes, supporting thus offshore industry and maritime traffic on in-country and international levels as well. Remote monitoring techniques and solutions able to support safe navigation, control of maritime traffic, detection of illegal activities, and marine environment safeguarding are at the forefront of modern seafaring. This Special Issue focuses on both human-made (piracy, oil spills, etc.) and natural threats (such as (meteo)tsunamis), as well as on sensors and sensor integration techniques which are used for threat detection. All sensors capable of providing ocean remote monitoring such as high-frequency radars, microwave radars, EO, etc., as well as platforms used by those sensors are of interest in this Special Issue. Techniques used to mitigate the effects of the aforementioned risks are also welcomed.

Researchers in the field are invited to contribute to this Special Issue on “Safety and Risk Management in Offshore Activities” with innovative technological solutions (technologies and data processing) in any of the maritime applications mentioned above.

Dr. Dejan Nikolic
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • maritime safety
  • remote sensing of marine and maritime environment
  • risk assessment
  • marine sensors
  • sensor integration
  • data fusion

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Increasing Maritime Safety and Security in the Off-Shore Activities with HFSWRs as Primary Sensors for Risk Assessment
by Dejan Nikolic, Nikola Stojkovic, Snezana Puzovic, Zdravko Popovic, Nikola Stojiljkovic, Nemanja Grbic and Vladimir D. Orlic
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2023, 11(6), 1167; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11061167 - 1 Jun 2023
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This paper demonstrates the benefits that high-frequency surface wave radars (HFSWR) are bringing to maritime safety and security in off-shore activities at over the horizon distances. As a primary means for remote sensing of marine and maritime environment, a network of HFSWRs is [...] Read more.
This paper demonstrates the benefits that high-frequency surface wave radars (HFSWR) are bringing to maritime safety and security in off-shore activities at over the horizon distances. As a primary means for remote sensing of marine and maritime environment, a network of HFSWRs is deployed in the western part of the Gulf of Guinea and covers an area of over 100 km2. Alongside HFSWRs, usual maritime sensors are utilized for vessel tracking as well, however, only satellite automatic identification systems (SAIS) and land automatic identification systems (LAIS) are capable of covering over the horizon distances. Unfortunately, both LAIS and SAIS require vessel cooperation in order to provide any data, which is often abused by vessels conducting illegal activities. Here, analysis is done in which AIS and HFSWR data are compared in order to identify a pattern of behavior of non–cooperative vessels (vessels with onboard AIS devices turned off) so a proper risk assessment may be achieved. It is shown that typical patterns can be easily recognized for two illegal activities which plague the waters where this study is conducted. Those illegal activities are oil bunkering and piracy, both conducted off-shore and out of the reach of the usual coastal sensors such as X or S band radars. Furthermore, tracks created whilst conducting illegal activities are easily distinguishable from others in the overall operational picture. Additionally, it should be pointed out that numerous vessels are switching off their AIS devices when they leave the coastal regions in order to avoid detection by pirate vessels. This behavior can also be easily recognized and must not be mixed with the illegal activities mentioned above. Full article
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