Description: A method is being developed for sea areas and ports to determine the number of people at sea. For this purpose, information from the FleetMon ship databases and community is bundled. The number of persons in a maritime area is essential for the provision of sufficient maritime rescue resources.
The objective of SEAPEOPLE is to develop an application within an app container determining the number and spatial distribution of people at sea worldwide regardless of the ship type.
This enables authorities or service providers to plan supply capacities in advance in the event of a crisis. Such a representation can also form the basis for innovative business models in regular shipping, e.g., for the effective planning of logistics chains. The number of persons is also determined for ships in ports. Therefore, the application will also be important for tourism in the vicinity of ports due to the better planning.
Knowledge of the number and type of active ships will be obtained by evaluating the “Automatic Identification System (AIS) data” that is mandatory for all ships. This data is accessible through FleetMon’s own global AIS network. The data must be filtered, structured, and processed to be used for the planned application. The flow of people is displayed by linking the AIS data with ship information from the company’s own databases and external data sources to be researched. Big data algorithms are used for th