Extracting Global Shipping Networks from Massive Historical Automatic Identification System Sensor Data : A Bottom-Up Approach

The increasing availability of big Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) sensor data offers great opportunities to track ship activities and mine spatial-temporal patterns of ship traffic worldwide. This research proposes a data integration approach to construct Global Shipping Networks (GSN) from massive historical ship AIS trajectories in a completely bottom-up way. First, a DBSCAN (Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) algorithm is applied to temporally identify relevant stop locations, such as marine terminals and their associated events. Second, the semantic meanings of these locations are obtained by mapping them to real ports as identified by the World Port Index (WPI). Stop events are leveraged to develop travel sequences of any ship between stop locations at multiple scales. Last, a GSN is constructed by considering stop locations as nodes and journeys between nodes as links. This approach generates different levels of shipping networks from the terminal, port, and country levels. It is illustrated by a case study that extracts country, port, and terminal level Global Container Shipping Networks (GCSN) from AIS trajectories of more than 4000 container ships in 2015. The main features of these GCSNs and the limitations of this work are finally discussed.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19

Enthalten in:

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) - 19(2019), 15 vom: 31. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Zhihuan [VerfasserIn]
Claramunt, Christophe [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yinhai [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

AIS big data
DBSCAN
Journal Article
Ship trajectory
Shipping network
Stay locations
Stop events

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Date Revised 25.02.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/s19153363

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM29981565X