Maritime Traffic Data Mining Using R

Human operators trying to establish individual or collective maritime situational awareness often find themselves overloaded by huge amounts of information obtained from multiple and possibly dissimilar sources. This paper explores potential use of open source data mining tools, in particular R software, to enable discovery of maritime traffic patterns. It also presents an assessment of R software as a data mining tool using spatio-temporal maritime traffic data such as from the Automatic Identification System (AIS), and includes scenarios of potential interest to the maritime environment.