Nowadays, most merchant vessels use Heavy Fuel Oils (HFOs) for the ship propulsion. These fuels are cost effective but they produce significant amounts of noxious emissions. To comply with IMO & MARPOL environmental regulations, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is becoming an interesting option for the merchant ships. The purpose and scope of this paper is to describe the fact...

S ensors and other data sources, combined with sophisticated signal processing techniques, promise to help scientists better observe and analyze various types of environmental data. Biologist Nathan Merchant, for example , has created a method for tracking ships and monitoring underwater noise levels in protected marine mammal habitats. Merchant, senior scientist for underwater noise at the U.K...

A series of quantitative and structural analyses are applied to geospatial data regarding the movement of Merchant Marine vessels in the English Channel.