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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"maritime domain"”.
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Four Oceans: An integrated approach to Australia's maritime domain
… manages the activities of fishing vessels in its maritime domain. This thesis goes on to demonstrate that this significance has not been fully appreciated by policy makers. Despite their strategic gravity, fish rarely make an appearance in discussions on oceans security. The contribution of …
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The East African community‘s maritime domain: an innovative institutional framework
This PhD thesis analyses the main maritime policy and maritime security challenges facing the six East African Community (EAC) States, both individually and collectively, and how the EAC can play a leading role in resolving these challenges while maintaining its overall mission. The EAC is an …
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Shielding Achilles' heel: challenges facing Northern Command in the maritime domain
… Northern Command (NORTHCOM) is performing in the maritime domain as the new Unified Command responsible for homeland defense. NORTHCOM does not currently have a permanent maritime component assigned for missions. Instead, it relies on contingency planning for future events and theoretically acts …
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The systems integration of autonomous behavior analysis to create a "Maritime Smart Environment" for the enhancement of maritime domain awareness
Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) is a very challenging mission area in an ever-increasing net-centric environment, which is inundated with data from many highly advanced, capable sensors and communication suites. With all these technological data collection and dissemination advances, the …
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THE GRAY ZONE SURGE: RUSSIA’S MARITIME SUBVERSION IN THE BALTIC SEA
… and nature of Russia's gray zone tactics in the maritime domain within the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). States utilize gray zone tactics when they act through kinetic and non-kinetic means that allow them to stay below the threshold of conventional war. To support economic interests to fund its war …
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Sensor Evaluation and Fleet Modeling of Long-Range Low-Cost Autonomous Surface Vehicles
… Surface Vehicles (ASVs) with a focus on Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) applications. Utilizing the Platform for Expanding AUV exploRation (PEARL) as a model, the study systematically evaluates various sensor options to identify optimal suites for MDA operations. Through an analysis of …
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Evolution of interagency cooperation in the United States Government : the Maritime Operational Threat Response Plan
… 2001 terrorist attacks, there was concern among maritime security experts that terrorist or criminal organizations that wanted to do harm to the United States could exploit gaps that existed between the various government agencies responsible for maritime security. These gaps resulted from a lack …
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SHIPS’ TRAJECTORIES PREDICTION USING RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS BASED ON AIS DATA
… anomalous ship behavior serves to increase maritime domain awareness and aid security analysts in deciding how to best allocate limited resources. Furthermore, these capabilities enable the investigation of potential threats, prevention of collisions, and planning for search-and rescue …
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The port security grant program: good enough, or can it be made better?
… disruptions and facilitate port recovery, and maritime domain awareness (MDA) capabilities to prevent, respond to, and recover from attacks. The PSGP has matured to include funding for all-hazards threatening the ports--natural, accidental, and intentional. This thesis seeks to evaluate how …
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Human Reliability assessment in oil tanker operations
… of availability of human reliability data in the maritime domain. The continual occurrence of oil tanker spills, which was substantiated with analysis of historical data of oil tanker incidents/accidents from 1970 to 2008, provides a judicious reason to conduct this research. The critical review …
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THE IRANIAN MARITIME CHALLENGE
… is this challenge more pronounced than in the maritime domain, where Iran’s naval power continues to dwarf that of its neighbors in the Persian Gulf. This thesis explores the threat Iran poses by examining the extensive maritime capabilities of its two navies, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards …
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Coordinated guidance strategy for multiple USVs during maritime interdiction operations
… various emerging and increasing threats in the maritime domain have posed a great challenge to the Coast Guard worldwide. Currently, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) seeks to tackle this problem using unmanned technologies and applications. In particular, unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) …
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Maritime strategy in the era of control and denial of visibility
In the contemporary, globalised world the maritime domain is more important than it has ever been throughout history. As such, maritime strategy - the direction of elements of national power (including naval power, in particular) to secure national interests at sea - remains a vital subject. Just …
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Power in Institutions: Interstate Negotiations of Incremental Agreements for the East and South China Sea Disputes
… attempts to reach agreements for the disputed maritime domain. This is the first comprehensive study that analyses how East and Southeast Asia’s middle powers negotiated with China and with each other about the creation of institutions in response to the challenge that China’s maritime claims …
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An analysis of the factors inhibiting ECDIS from effectually achieving its intended primary function of contributing to safe navigation
This research is contextualised in the maritime domain, where since the introduction of legislation mandating the carriage of Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) by merchant vessels, evidence has emerged of unintended consequences of this legislation – which threaten the safety …
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'Facilitation regimes' and maritime trade in Nigeria: A critical appraisal of Nigeria's Implementation of the IMO FAL and the WTO TFA
… interdependency between international trade and maritime transport cannot be overstated. With over 80 per cent of global trade by volume carried out by maritime transport, the procedures and processes in and around the maritime domain can either aid or act as barriers to global trade. These …
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A resilience assessment framework for shipping companies which learns from past accidents by using a Fuzzy Cognitive Maps-based approach
The maritime sector has strived to reduce accidents and their consequences since its beginning, by addressing safety as the priority from the design stage to decommissioning of any vessel. Previous accident studies are focused on identifying Human Factors (HFs) in past maritime accidents. However, …
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Dynamic Task Allocation in Partially Defined Environments Using A* with Bounded Costs
<p>The sector of maritime robotics has seen a boom in operations in areas such as surveying and mapping, clean-up, inspections, search and rescue, law enforcement, and national defense. As this sector has continued to grow, there has been an increased need for single unmanned systems to be able to …
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Global crime governance off the eastern Africa littoral: does the response to piracy in the Western Indian Ocean provide a model?
… of global governance, organized crime and maritime security. Research data was generated through a literature review, complimented by expert interviews and participant observation. This thesis uses the case studies of heroin and ivory trafficking in the Western Indian Ocean to consider …
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Assessing High Dynamic Range Imagery Performance for Object Detection in Maritime Environments
<p>The field of autonomous robotics has benefited from the implementation of convolutional neural networks in vision-based situational awareness. These strategies help identify surface obstacles and nearby vessels. This study proposes the introduction of high dynamic range cameras on autonomous …