SeaSpider: Automated Information Gathering on Vessel Movements in Support of Maritime Domain Awareness

Abstract

SeaSpider is an R&D tool to investigate the development of a software agent that would aid an operator in gathering information about marine vessels from public sources on the internet. This information would supplement sensor information used for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) to enhance Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) and to complete the Recognized Maritime Picture (RMP). Specifically, SeaSpider is fine tuned to search for, organize, and display information about locations (ports), dates and times, and activities (arrival, in berth, departure). One module manages the Google searches and retrieves the html pages; another module extracts relevant ship movement information and populates a database; a third module retrieves information from the database in response to user generated queries. In this memorandum, the SeaSpider concept is introduced, the design details of the prototype are presented, and performance is analysed, with a view to future enhancements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA481033

Entities

People

  • David M. Chapman
  • Serhan Tatar

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic Identification Systems
  • Classification
  • Computer Languages
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Html
  • Identification Systems
  • Information Retrieval
  • Language
  • Maritime Domain Awareness
  • Named Entity Recognition
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Security

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.