Information System Design for Ship Surveillance

Ship surveillance technology has been developed rapidly especially for the increasing request for maritime security and safety. In order to mitigate the maritime issues we plan to design a Ship Surveillance System (SSS), which will integrate data sources including space-borne SAR, shore-based AIS and space-based AIS. It will be inevitable to integrate other data sources such as HF-radar, optical satellite imagery, hyper-spectral and IR imagery in the future, so we adopt service-oriented architecture (SOA) concept to enhance the system's flexibility and extensibility. This paper firstly presents the SOA-based design of ship surveillance system on the basis of research on ship surveillance using space-borne SAR and AIS. Then the main functional modules are analyzed profoundly, and the security strategy is also proposed.