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Accession Number:
AD1046595
Title:
Predicting Vessel Trajectories from Ais Data Using R
Corporate Author:
Naval Postgraduate School Monterey United States
Report Date:
2017-06-01
Abstract:
Analysts and security experts seek automated algorithms to predict future behavior of vessels at sea based on Automated Identification System AIS data. This thesis seeks to accurately predict the future location of a vessel at sea based on cluster analysis of historical vessel trajectories using a random forest. Once similar trajectories have been clustered into a route, expected prediction error can be empirically estimated based on an independent validation data set not used during training, then applied to an independent test set to produce an expected prediction region with a user-defined level of expectation. Our results show that the prediction region contains the true interpolated future position at the expectation level set by the user, therefore producing a valid methodology for both estimating the future vessel location and for assessing anomalous vessel behavior.
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report
Pages:
0075
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release;
File Size:
2.59MB
