Maritime assets such as ports, harbors, and vessels are vulnerable to a variety of near-shore threats such as small-boat attacks. Currently, such vulnerabilities are addressed predominantly by watchstanders and manual video surveillance, which is manpower intensive. Automatic maritime video surveillance techniques are being introduced to reduce manpower costs, but they have limited functionalit...

In the era of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the public and private sectors are increasingly committed to the growth of transport-oriented infrastructure, including ports, highways, bridges, and rail facilities. In particular there has been much interest in international bridges spanning the Rio Grande, the roads and rail lines leading to these bridges, and the port facilities...

Gun Suk Yoo, Dong Il Kim, Dong Soo Choi Department of Radio Communication Engineering, Korea Maritime University Dongsam-Dong, Youngdo-Ku, Busan, 606-791, Korea, [email protected] Department of Radio Communication Engineering, Korea Maritime University Dongsam-Dong, Youngdo-Ku, Busan, 606-791, Korea, [email protected] Department of Radio Communication Engineering, Korea Maritime University D...

Contamination derived from maritime transportation is not only linked to petroleum-based substances but also of other such as hazardous and noxious nature (HNS). Over the last decade, trade HNS has been augmenting. However, levels in aquatic environment are still quite unknown. So, an integrative study, combining a chemical multi-biomarker evaluation, was done NW Atlantic Iberian coast where sp...

Introduction. The maritime transport of individual countries, operating in a single space the World Ocean, determines tasks and problems creating standard requirements for reliability cargo flows system security operation. This significantly differentiates conditions development as subsystem global market between its structures, on one hand, national complexes, other. is what expediency various...