OCEAN SURFACE TRAFFIC SURVEILLANCE FROM SATELLITES - CONSIDERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO IMPORT SURVEILLANCE.

Abstract

The report investigates some of the areas bearing on the feasibility of satellite surveillance of ships in port. Background conditions in a particular port as influenced by water temperature and the presence of a variety of shore based installations are considered. Particular attention is paid to relative severity of the cloud cover to be expected in some of the major shipping harbors of the world and over the open ocean. It was found in general that viewing conditions are better over the open ocean than they are in ports at comparable latitudes. The seasonal aspects of ocean surface transportation were considered. The distribution of surface ship traffic is affected by the freezing of ports and by seasonal variations in shipments of various commodities such as lumber, ore, grains, and petroleum. A discussion of the possible types of electro-optical equipment required for inport surveillance by satellite is also presented. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0828702

Entities

People

  • Arthur C. S. Roberts

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Cloud Cover
  • Clouds
  • Commodities
  • Critical Temperature
  • Freezing
  • Glass Transition Temperature
  • Latitude
  • Marine Transportation
  • Optical Equipment
  • Seasonal Variations
  • Shipping
  • Surface Transportation
  • Surveillance
  • Transition Temperature
  • Transportation

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Maritime Security/Maritime Homeland Security
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Space