With the rapid growth of the global shipping industry, the increasing number of vessels has brought significant challenges to navigation safety and management. Vessel trajectory prediction technology plays a crucial role in route optimization and collision avoidance. However, current prediction methods face limitations when dealing with complex vessel interactions and multi-dimensional attribute information. Most models rely solely on global modeling in the temporal dimension, considering spatial interactions only later, failing to capture dynamic changes in trajectory interactions at different time points. Additionally, these methods do not fully utilize the multi-attribute information in AIS data, and the simple concatenation of attributes limits the model’s potential. To address these issues, this paper proposes a dual spacial–temporal attention network with multi-attribute information (DualSTMA). This network models vessel behavior and interactions through two distinct paths, comprehensively considering individual vessel intentions and dynamic interactions. Moreover, we divide vessel attributes into dynamic and static categories, with dynamic attributes fused during feature preprocessing, and with static attributes being controlled through a gating mechanism during spatial interactions to regulate the importance of neighboring vessel features. Benchmark tests on real AIS data show that DualSTMA significantly outperforms existing methods in prediction accuracy. Ablation studies and visual analyses further validate the model’s reliability and advantages.

A vessel automatic identification system (AIS) provides a large amount of dynamic vessel information over a large coverage area and data volume. The AIS data are a typical type of big geo-data with high dimensionality, large noise, heterogeneous densities, and complex distributions. This poses a challenge for the clustering and analysis of vessel sailing routes. This study proposes an efficient vessel sailing route clustering and analysis method based on AIS data that uses traffic density images to transform the clustering problem of complex AIS trajectories into an image processing problem. First, a traffic density image is constructed based on the statistics of the preprocessed AIS data. Next, the main sea route regions of traffic density images are extracted based on local image features, geometric structures, and spatial features. Finally, the sailing trajectories are clustered using the extracted sailing patterns. Based on actual vessel AIS data, multimethod comparisons and performance analysis experiments are conducted to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method. These experimental results reveal that the proposed method displays potential for the clustering task of challenging vessel sailing routes.

In this study, we propose a practical and efficient scheme for ship detection in remote sensing imagery. Our method is developed using both ship body detection and ship wake detection and combines deep learning and feature-based image processing. A deep convolutional neural network is used to achieve ship body detection, and a feature-based processing method is proposed to detect ship wakes. For better analysis, we model the sea region and evaluate the quality of the image. Generally, the wake detection result is used to assist ship detection and obtain the sailing direction. Conventional methods cannot detect ships that are covered by clouds or outside the image boundary. The method proposed in this paper uses the wake to detect such ships, with a certain level of confidence and low false alarm probability in detection. Practical aspects such as the method’s applicability and time efficiency are considered in our method for real applications. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in a real remote sensing dataset. The results show that over 93.5% of ships and over 70% of targets with no visible ship body can be successfully detected. This illustrates that the proposed detection framework can fill the gap regarding the detection of sailing ships in a remote sensing image.

Ship detection in remote sensing images plays an important role in maritime surveillance. Recently, convolution neural network (CNN)-based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in ship detection. Even so, there are still two problems that remain in remote sensing. One is that the different modal images observed by multiple satellite sensors and the existing dataset cannot satisfy network-training requirements. The other is the false alarms in detection, as the ship target is usually faint in real view remote sensing images and many false-alarm targets can be detected in ocean backgrounds. To solve these issues, we propose a double augmentation framework for ship detection in cross-modal remote sensing imagery. Our method can be divided into two main steps: the front augmentation in the training process and the back augmentation verification in the detection process; the front augmentation uses a modal recognition network to reduce the modal difference in training and in using the detection network. The back augmentation verification uses batch augmentation and results clustering to reduce the rate of false-alarm detections and improve detection accuracy. Real-satellite-sensing experiments have been conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, which shows promising performance in quantitative evaluation metrics.