A surveillance system of a military harbour using an automatic identification system

The goal of our research is the design and implementation of a surveillance system based on an Automatic Identification System (AIS). The AIS system enables operators in a control room to monitor ship movements in and along the harbour. There is a need to support human operators. The automated system is modelled after human operator. The transitions between the four steps Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action (OODA-loop) are realised using a rule based expert system and Bayesian networks. The design, implementation and results of experiments are reported in the paper.