1763 - Identify wake trailing to detect ships using EO data

Concepts

• [TA13-6] Monitor marine
  Monitoring marine inlucdes monitoring of marine safety (e.g. marine operations, oil spill combat, ship routing, defence, search & rescue, ...), marine resources (e.g. fish stock management, ...), marine and coastal environment (e.g. water quality, pollution, coastal activities, ...), and climate and seasonal forecasting (e.g. ice survey, seasonal forecasting, ...).
• [TA13-6-5] Detect and monitor ships
  For shipping, navigation, and monitoring sea-traffic and pollution, remote sensing and satellite technologies allow detecting vessels in the wider ocean. EO can detect the vessels themselves, their wake trailing behind them, sandbanks and reefs that pose a threat for safe navigation. Additionally, EO can detect pollution from the ships, e.g. when illegal waste disposal happens. Ship detection and classification is possible with the use of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. The methods complement each other.