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A presentation by KSAT that details their satellite services to the maritime sector....

This study builds upon the March 2014 WWF Emerging Technologies Workshop which held a goal to
help FFA Member countries better understand the existin...

This report discusses the rapid expansion of squid fishing in the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) Convention Area. The vessels appear to operate e...

Drawing on a unique satellite tracking database, this report presents new evidence of the scale and pattern of IUU fishing. It focuses on ‘reefers�...

This study assesses the risk of fish from illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) sources passing through the world’s most important fishing ports...

PEW Charitable Trust fact sheet describing the use and operation of vessel monitoring systems on board fishing vessels. ...

This report identifies the top distant water fishing (DWF) fleets in the world, where they operate, their motivations and economic impact, and their c...

This research paper highlights the large number of unmonitored or dark vessels however it explores the use of remote sensing technology to identify IU...

This paper highlights cases of commercial fishing vessels “going dark” to public tracking systems around the world and need for authorities to ena...

The following paper is an extract from a larger publication from PEW Charitable Trusts on the use
of AIS for analyzing fish carrier activity in 2016 ...

The ISSF has recommended that purse seine and longline vessels participate in vessel monitoring schemes that meet global standards. This technical pa...

The European Union (EU) recently agreed on a reform of the legal framework for its external fleet that fishes outside of EU waters. The authors invest...

This paper details how monitoring and enforcement of the Pitcairn Island’s exclusive economic zone
could be effectively undertaken for a relatively...

The authors explore the use of spatial statistical methods to identify vessels behaving anomalously, in particular with regard to loitering, using the...

This study used commercially available satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) data combined with the application of machine learning technolo...

his study used commercially available satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) data combined with the application of machine learning technolog...

This report aims to provide insight into carrier vessel movement and transshipment activity within the WCPFC Convention Area, GFW used commercially av...

This paper presents SATLASPRETRAIN, a remote sensing dataset that is large in both breadth and scale, combining Sentinel-2 and NAIP images with 302M l...

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing poses a global threat to ocean habitats. Publicly available satellite data offered by NASA and the ...

Maritime domain awareness (MDA) systems around the Indian Ocean region are being disrupted by technological developments, including a proliferation of...