{"id":69252,"date":"2016-05-05T01:29:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T23:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/towards-a-better-analysis-of-maritime-data\/"},"modified":"2016-05-05T01:29:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T23:29:48","slug":"towards-a-better-analysis-of-maritime-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/towards-a-better-analysis-of-maritime-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards a better analysis of maritime data"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, May 4, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ — <\/span><\/p>\n

Ensuring law enforcement at sea and a peaceful exploitation of maritime\u00a0resources, requires among other things, a continuous analysis of maritime data\u00a0collected from various open sources, and sharing the data at regional level in\u00a0coordination with the national agencies. Under EU CRIMARIO project, twenty-six\u00a0participants from Mauritius, and coastal countries of Indian Ocean (Comoros,\u00a0Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia, Yemen) had the\u00a0opportunity to develop their skills in maritime data visualisation and analysis, and\u00a0share their experience.<\/p>\n

Maritime data analysis: a shared motivation of attendees and trainers, Mombasa, April 2016<\/p>\n

For any State, it is important to ensure the maritime security and safety in its waters and\u00a0contribute to those on the high seas. The exchange of information between the\u00a0agencies involved in the maritime domain (Transport, Navy, Police, Environment,\u00a0Customs, Fishery, etc.) is one of the key elements for improving this security, with the\u00a0regional cooperation between neighbouring countries representing another key element.<\/p>\n

This assessment is shared by the Coastal States of both the Indian Ocean and\u00a0international partners, including the European Union who launched various projects\u00a0including CRIMARIO (part of the Critical Maritime Routes programme) to promote\u00a0the culture of maritime situational awareness with a focus on information\u00a0sharing and capacity building in maritime data analysis. CRIMARIO is also supporting\u00a0the regional initiatives, such as the Mombasa Protocol.<\/p>\n

The training session, held from 25 to 29 April 2016 in Mombasa, is the second\u00a0contribution of CRIMARIO to strengthen the regional know-how in maritime data analysis\u00a0and sharing. This session is complementing the first one, organised earlier in February in\u00a0Mombasa.<\/p>\n

The twenty-six participants, coming from different maritime agencies, received advanced\u00a0practical experience in utilising common IT tools, for extracting, visualising and analysing\u00a0data provided by AIS sources (AIS or Automatic Identification System is an automatic\u00a0tracking system used on ships and by vessel traffic services for identifying and locating\u00a0vessels by electronically exchanging data with other nearby ships, AIS base stations, and\u00a0satellites). The participants learned how to use QGIS, a free and open-source desktop\u00a0geographic information system (GIS) application that provides data viewing and editing.<\/p>\n

They also train on analysis, using statistics and electronic spreadsheet.<\/p>\n

They are now able to better visualise the maritime information, and conduct analysis to\u00a0identify trends.\u00a0Mauritius attendees belong to the National Coast Guard, while other participants\u00a0belong to Information sharing centres established under the Djibouti Code of Conduct.<\/p>\n

With this, the second practical training session provided under CRIMARIO project this\u00a0year, they are deepening their knowledge in visualisation and analysis of maritime data.<\/p>\n

They were trained using historical data on piracy of year 2012, and historical data about\u00a0navigation in the Indian Ocean in year 2015.\u00a0In addition, since piracy is currently suppressed in the region, it is necessary that the\u00a0ISCs provide an \u201coperational added value\u201d deepening their skills in the comprehensive\u00a0approach of the maritime domain. Shared experience and development of a shared\u00a0repertoire of tools and practise are a major element contributing to confidence building\u00a0and enhancement of a maritime security culture in the region<\/p>\n

Mombasa protocol<\/p>\n

Four countries, hosting centres related to Information Sharing and maritime training\u00a0(Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Yemen), initiated a regional initiative known as \u201cthe\u00a0Mombasa Protocol\u201d, whose objective is to strengthen the existing cooperation instrument\u00a0(the Djibouti Code of Conduct), set up the framework for a regional governance of the\u00a0centres of Djibouti and Yemen and propose a long term sustainability mechanism.<\/p>\n

Moreover the Mombasa Protocol is paving the way to conclude data sharing agreements\u00a0amongst littoral states from IO Region encouraging them in the process of information\u00a0sharing of data other than piracy. CRIMARIO is also supporting the Mombasa protocol as\u00a0well as any other regional initiative or new mechanism facilitating information sharing\u00a0and maritime situational awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, May 4, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ — Ensuring law enforcement at sea and a peaceful exploitation of maritime\u00a0resources, requires among other things, a continuous analysis of maritime data\u00a0collected from various open sources, and sharing the data at regional level in\u00a0coordination with the national agencies. Under EU CRIMARIO project, twenty-six\u00a0participants from Mauritius, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-69252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}