Lookout Support System for Small Boat using AIS Information

Thalassorama A System for Classifying Small Boat Fishermen in Hawaii

A statewide economic survey of Hawaii’s fishing vessel operators was conducted in 1995–96. Survey topics fell into five groups: vessel characteristics, owners’ motivations, fishing operations, cost and revenue information, and operator demographics. Although this project was designed for and emphasizes the costs and earnings of commercial pelagic fishermen, information was also collected from r...

Detecting a Small Boat using Histogram PMHT

The conventional tracking paradigm is to sequentially apply a single frame detector to each sensor frame and then employ a tracking algorithm to determine which detector outputs originate from targets and which are false alarms. The tracker associates detections from a particular target and estimates parameters of interest for the target [3], [1]. The obvious shortcoming of this approach is tha...

Determining the Spatial Location of Lookout Towers in Rapid Forest Fire Detection Using Geographic Information System (GIS)

Degradation of forests by fire has several environmental and socio-economic impacts and causes a disruption in the balance of ecosystems. Thus, rapid identification of fire using fires detection towers is necessary to reduce destructive effects in forests. Therefore, the purpose of this study is the identification of best and optimal locations to install fire detection towers using Digital Elev...

Decision support system (DSS) for site selection floodwater spreading schemes using remote sensing (RS) and geographical information systems (GIS)

Small Boat Bearing Localization using Time-Difference of Arrival

This tutorial involves implementing sonar processing algorithms and applying them to real underwater hydrophone data collected in the ocean. The goal of the tutorial is to learn how to apply the time-difference of arrival (TDOA) method to acoustic data recorded on two hydrophones to obtain a bearing estimate. TDOA processing is a classic passive sonar problem, and is also forms basis for many o...