GraphSTGAN:Situation understanding network of slow-fast high maneuvering targets for maritime monitor services of IoT data

With the rapid growth of the maritime Internet of Things(IoT)devices for Maritime Monitor Services(MMS),maritime traffic controllers could not handle a massive amount of data in time.For unmanned MMS,one of the key technologies is situation understanding.However,the presence of slow-fast high maneuvering targets and track breakages due to radar blind zones make modeling the dynamics of marine multi-agents difficult,and pose significant challenges to maritime situation understanding.In order to comprehend the situation accurately and thus offer unmanned MMS,it is crucial to model the complex dynamics of multi-agents using IoT big data.Nevertheless,previous methods typically rely on complex assumptions,are plagued by unstructured data,and disregard the interactions between multiple agents and the spatial-temporal correlations.A deep learning model,Graph Spatial-Temporal Generative Adversarial Network(GraphSTGAN),is proposed in this paper,which uses graph neural network to model unstructured data and uses STGAN to learn the spatial-temporal dependencies and interactions.Extensive experiments show the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method.

China's Maritime Governance:Practical Evolution and Theoretical Construction

Increasingly engaged in maritime governance,China has developed its distinct vision and gradually established a complete theoretical system surrounding it.In terms of discourse,China has proposed a collection of concepts and ideas including a maritime community with a shared future,the 2lst Century Maritime Silk Road,Blue Partnerships,and marine ecological civilization.In terms of connotations,China champions such values as lasting peace,common prosperity,openness and inclusiveness,and cleanness and beautifulness.Exteriorly and interiorly,we can observe the unique character of China's vision concerning maritime governance,which will continue to upgrade and bear fruit in future practices,boosting the development of Chinese maritime governance theories,multilateral maritime cooperation,and ocean-related international legislation.Guided by its vision,China is expected to contribute more to global maritime security and marine ecological civilization.

Three-dimensional thermohaline structure estimation derived from HY-2 satellite data over the Maritime Silk Road and its applications

Estimated ocean subsurface fields derived from satellite observations provide potential data sources for operational marine environmental monitoring and prediction systems.This study employs a statistic regression reconstruction method,in combination with domestic autonomous sea surface height and sea surface temperature observations from the Haiyang-2(HY-2)satellite fusion data,to establish an operational quasi-realtime three-dimensional(3D)temperature and salinity products over the Maritime Silk Road.These products feature a daily temporal resolution and a spatial resolution of 0.25°×0.25°and exhibit stability and continuity.We have demonstrated the accuracy of the reconstructed thermohaline fields in capturing the 3D thermohaline variations through comprehensive statistical evaluations,after comparing them against Argo observations and ocean analysis data from 2022.The results illustrate that the reconstructed fields effectively represent seasonal variations in oceanic subsurface structures,along with structural changes resulting from mesoscale processes,and the upper ocean’s responses to tropical cyclones.Furthermore,the incorporation of HY-2 satellite observations notably enhances the accuracy of temperature and salinity reconstructions in the Northwest Pacific Ocean and marginally improves salinity reconstruction accuracy in the North Indian Ocean when compared to the World Ocean Atlas 2018 monthly climatology thermohaline fields.As a result,the reconstructed product holds promise for providing quasi-real-time 3D temperature and salinity field information to facilitate fast decisionmaking during emergencies,and also offers foundational thermohaline fields for operational ocean reanalysis and forecasting systems.These contributions enhance the safety and stability of ocean subsurface activities and navigation.

Beamforming Design for IRS-and-UAV-Aided Two-Way Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks in Maritime IoT

In this paper,an intelligent reflecting surface(IRS)-and-unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)-assisted two-way amplify-and-forward(AF)relay network in maritime Internet of Things(IoT)is proposed,where ship1(S1)and ship2(S2)can be viewed as data collecting centers.To enhance the message exchange rate between S1 and S2,a problem of maximizing minimum rate is cast,where the variables,namely AF relay beamforming matrix and IRS phase shifts of two time slots,need to be optimized.To achieve a maximum rate,a low-complexity alternately iterative(AI)scheme based on zero forcing and successive convex approximation(LC-ZF-SCA)algorithm is presented.To obtain a significant rate enhancement,a high-performance AI method based on one step,semidefinite programming and penalty SCA(ONSSDP-PSCA)is proposed.Simulation results show that by the proposed LC-ZF-SCA and ONS-SDP-PSCA methods,the rate of the IRS-and-UAV-assisted AF relay network surpass those of with random phase and only AF relay networks.Moreover,ONS-SDP-PSCA perform better than LC-ZF-SCA in aspect of rate.

TRADE DEPENDENCIES AND TRANSACTION COSTS: THE OC-CUPATION OF DECELEA HIGHLIGHTS BOTH THE BENEFITS AND THE DRAWBACKS OF A MARITIME ECONOMY

Thucydides asserts that the occupation of Decelea by the Spartans in 413 BC made the grain supply for Athens costly by forcing the transport from land onto the sea.This calls into question the well-established consensus that sea transport was far cheaper than land transport.This paper contends that the cost of protecting supply lines-specifically the expenses associated with the warships which escorted the supply ships-rendered the grain transported on the new route exceptionally costly.In this paper,the benefits and drawbacks of a maritime economy,including transaction costs,trade dependencies,and the capabilities of warships and supply ships are discussed.

Study on the Protection of Sites of“Maritime Silk Road”in Haikou from the Perspective of World Cultural Heritage

The sites of Maritime Silk Road in Haikou City are composed of sites of navigation and trade,religious temples and stone monuments,urban construction and coastal defense scattered on the south bank of the Qiongzhou Strait.They played a key role in the formation and shaping of the settlements in Haikou City,recorded the process of intercommunication and integration between Chinese civilization and other regional cultures,and witnessed the germination,flourishing and inheritance of Haikou’s unique marine culture.The mixture of points,lines and planes blends with the urban area and coastline of Haikou City in spatial distribution.In this paper,from the perspective of world cultural heritage,some suggestions for the protection planning of sites of Maritime Silk Road in Haikou City were proposed based on the analysis of historical and geographical background,comparison of domestic and foreign similar sites,and evaluation of cultural heritage value.

Structural Design Study of Air-Dropped Unmanned Maritime Mobile Search and Rescue Platforms

In order to improve the efficiency and safety of search and rescue(SAR)at sea,this paper proposes a kind of emergency rapid rescue unmanned craft(air-dropped unmanned maritime motorized search and rescue platform)that can be delivered by a large transport aircraft.This paper studies the structural design scheme of the platform,and the main scale of the platform,the choice of power system and the impact resistance performance are considered in the design process to ensure its rapid response and effective rescue capability under complex sea conditions.Simulation results show that the platform can withstand the impact of air injection into the water and the shipboard equipment can operate normally under the impact load,thus verifying the feasibility and safety of the design.This study serves to improve the maritime search and rescue system and enhance the oceanic emergency response capability.

Impacts of monsoon break events in the western North Pacific on the cross-equatorial flows over the Maritime Continent

本文利用ERA5逐日再分析资料,探讨了1979-2020年间西北太平洋季风中断事件对海洋性大陆越赤道气流的影响.合成结果表明,西北太平洋季风中断事件会造成高,低空越赤道气流减弱,即高层南风异常,低层北风异常,与此相关的环流异常表现为西北太平洋高层气旋,低层反气旋的斜压结构。特别的是,西北太平洋季风中断对高空越赤道气流的影响更为显著,92%的季风中断事件都导致高空越赤道气流减弱,而只有70%的事件造成低空越赤道气流减弱,这是由于低空越赤道气流同时还受到赤道中东太平洋海温异常的调控.

Environmental Information-Aided Electromagnetic Propagation Testbed for Maritime Communication

Maritime channel modeling can be affected by some key time-varying environmental factors.The ducting effect is one of the thorniest factors since it causes anomalous propagation enhancement and severe co-channel interference.Moreover,the atmospheric attenuation is much more severe in the ocean environment,resulting in shorter coverage distance and more link outage.In this paper,we propose an environmental information-aided electromagnetic propagation testbed.It is based on complex refractivity estimation and improved parabolic equation propagation model,taking into account both ducting effect and atmospheric attenuation.A large-scale temporal and spatial propagation measurement was conducted with meteorological acquisition.We consider practical path loss and ducting conditions to verify the testbed feasibility in these long-distance radio links.The simulation results are in good agreement with the measured data,which further reveal the basic temporal and spatial distribution of ducting effect at 3.5 GHz band.

Towards reinforcement learning in UAV relay for anti-jamming maritime communications

Maritime communications with sea surface reflections and sea wave occlusions are susceptible to jamming attacks due to the wide geographical area and intensive wireless communication services.Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)help relay messages to improve communication performance,but the relay policy that depends on the rapidly changing maritime environments is difficult to optimize.In this paper,a reinforcement learning-based UAV relay policy for maritime communications is proposed to resist jamming attacks.Based on previous transmission performance,the relay location,the received power of the transmitted signal and the received jamming power,this scheme optimizes the UAV trajectory and relay power to save the energy consumption and decrease the Bit-Error-Rate(BER)of the maritime signals.A deep reinforcement learning-based scheme is also proposed,which designs a deep neural network with dueling architecture to further improve the communication performance and computational complexity.The performance bounds regarding the signal to interference plus noise ratio,energy consumption and the communication utility are provided based on the Nash equilibrium of the game against jamming,and the computational complexity of the proposed schemes is analyzed.Simulation results show that the proposed schemes improve the energy efficiency and decrease the BER compared with the benchmark.

Decarbonizing in Maritime Transportation: Challenges and Opportunities

As global warming caused by greenhouse gases grows (GHGs) into a global environmental threat, carbon dioxide emissions are drawing increasing attention in these years. Among all emission sources, transportation is a major contributor to climate change because of its high dependence on fossil fuels. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has therefore been promoting the reduction of fuel usage and carbon emissions for container ships by such measures as improving shipping route selection, shipping speed optimization, and constructing clean energy propulsion systems. In this paper, a review of the impact of carbon dioxide emissions on climate change is presented;the current situations of carbon dioxide emissions, decarbonizing methods, IMO regulations, and possible future directions of decarbonizing in the maritime transportation industry are also discussed. Based on the result, it is found that in the case that non intelligent ships still occupy the vast majority of operating ships, the use of new energy as the main propulsion fuel has the defects of high renewal cost and long effective period. It is more likely to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction in the shipping industry in a short period of time by using intelligent means and artificial intelligence to assist ship operation. .

Revisiting The Maritime Silk Road In Penglai

Penglai,Yantai City,is located at the northern tip of the Shandong Peninsula,330 kilometers north of Langya Port in Qingdao.In 133 BC,Emperor Wudi(156-87 BC)of the Han Dynasty visited the region during an inspection tour of the eastern part of his empire.He gazed out into the sea in the direction of the mythical Mount Penglai,home of immortals.

The Struggle for Atlantic Maritime Security and Safety:Lessons From Africa’s Maritime Security Governance

The enormous economic potentials of the blue/ocean economy have made the maritime domain increasingly susceptible to transnational organized crime and a theater for great power competition,particularly in the Atlantic maritime domain.The maritime security threats are more prevalent in the Atlantic African maritime domain than in other continents.These threats are becoming increasingly detrimental to the African security,safety,and human security,particularly in the coastal countries of the Atlantic Africa.Despite its increasing susceptibility to maritime security threats including great powers competition and the presence of non-Atlantic great powers more than in other maritime domains in Africa,the coastal countries of the Atlantic Sub-Saharan Africa(SSA)have managed to forge strategic inter-regional maritime security partnership that has relatively improved maritime security and safety in the region.There is a growing interest in forging inter-continental partnership of the coastal Atlantic states to collectively respond and address the shared maritime security threats in the entire Atlantic maritime domain.Yet,the way such a complex multilateral partnership would be structured and operationalized has not been worked out.This article assesses the economic potentials,susceptibility to maritime security threats,and level of response to maritime security threats by the coastal countries of the Atlantic SSA with the aim of identifying some lessons that could be relevant for forging the Atlantic inter-continental maritime security partnership.Some of these lessons include genuine partnership that is based on sovereign equality and inter-dependence,a code of conduct,cooperation,and coordination framework,and shared common value system of democratic governance.

The Role of Chittagong Port Authority to Develop Other National Ports in Bangladesh to Provide Maritime Logistics Support in South Asia

Chittagong Port is the principal seaport in Bangladesh that has contributed to the national economy with the opportunity to be a world-class regional port in South Asia.Cooperation among the three national ports Chittagong,Mongla and Payra is essential to do maritime logistics business in the region after serving the nation proudly.Here,Chittagong Port Authority(CPA)has the opportunity to help others in the process of port development for increasing efficiency and productivity by providing financial and technical assistance because of its financial and technical capabilities as a pioneer seaport in the port world.This paper examines the role of CPA to bolster and develop the underutilized Mongla Port and newly established Payra Port,where qualitative research methodology is applied to explore the ways,by which CPA can assist,link and integrate with others effectively,especially in developing the port infrastructure and inland transport networks.In addition,the research found the prospectus of Mongla and Payra to supply port services to the neighbors India,Nepal,and Bhutan as well as serve the South-West part of China with the aim of increasing regional connectivity and promoting international trade in those basically landlocked areas and countries of Asia.

Development of Maritime Mix-Type Structures

Mixed-type structures combining the advantages of pile constructions(low material consumption and possibility to erect on weak soils)and gravity walls(high bearing capacity and stability,good reliability and durability)are considered and improved.The sphere of application,main peculiarities,and practical technological aspects of these structures’implementation are analyzed.

海洋强国视域下航海类专业实践课程混合式教学改革研究

在海洋强国战略背景下,分析了当前航海类专业实践教学资源不足、教学模式单调枯燥、教学项目与产业行业需求脱节、海洋强国等课程思政元素融入不够等现状困境,提出优化航海类专业实践教学特色定位,对航海类专业产教融合实践教学资源进行了融汇与创新重构,优化设计实践课程混合式教学模式,开展了航海类专业产教融合混合式实践教学改革实践,并基于PDCA的循环改进原则建立航海类专业实践教学实施、监督及反馈的质量管理模式。基于产教融合的航海类专业实践课程混式教学改革模式,可为进一步落实国家职业教育政策,深化产教融合,推进高水平实训基地建设提供借鉴。

俄乌冲突背景下全球海运网络的结构特征分析

在俄乌冲突背景下,基于AIS轨迹数据和复杂网络分析法,分析全球海运网络的整体和局部结构特征,探究海上通道的枢纽作用以及区域海运网络的抗毁性。结果表明:俄乌冲突加剧了全球海运网络的动态演变,干散货海运网络的稳定性强于集装箱海运网络和液化天然气(LNG)海运网络。全球枢纽港口呈现明显的地域性分布和结构性差异特征,中国仅少数核心港口在全球海运网络中具有优势地位。在俄乌冲突紧张局势下,俄罗斯港口在LNG海运网络中保持了一定的竞争力。欧洲地区的直布罗陀海峡和英吉利海峡在三类海运网络中起到关键的中介枢纽作用,同时海运网络对于亚洲地区的琉球群岛、新加坡海峡、朝鲜海峡等也具有较高依赖性。中国与“一带一路”沿线国家之间的集装箱海运网络和干散货海运网络、与金砖国家之间的干散货海运网络均表现出较高的发展水平和较强的抗毁性。

直流换流阀海上运输动力响应分析方法研究

大型变电设备在驳船实际运输中,在风浪、潮流等外部作用下经常发生不同程度的损坏,研究最不利环境下设备的动力响应,对运输设备的安全性进行探讨是必要的。为此,以某海上直流换流阀塔为研究对象,基于其自身振动特性研究其在海上运输的动力响应,针对海上运输环境复杂多变、研究工况多、时频分析计算周期较长,在功率谱分析的基础上提出了基于拟静力的分析方法。结果表明:当波浪频率与结构基频比值小于0.15时,可用拟静力分析方法直接得到结构应力响应,位移响应则需对拟静力结果放大1.30倍修正以保证安全;当波浪频率与结构基频比值接近1.00时,结构响应的放大系数和频率比呈线性相关。该研究为设备的海上运输安全评估及加固提供依据。

结合地理信息与AIS数据的海上航道自适应提取方法

海上航道对于海上态势感知具有重要意义。然而,现有的航道提取方法存在航道航路点易丢失、提取准确性不高等问题,本文依据船舶航路点数量与其途经岛屿、港口等地理区域数量相等的准则,提出了一种结合地理信息与自动识别系统(Automatic Identification System, AIS)数据的海上航道自适应提取方法。首先,构建港口之间往返船只AIS航迹数据集,将每条AIS航迹等间距分段并计算每段航迹的平均航速,设置航速差初始阈值,计算相邻航段平均航速差超过阈值的数量作为初始船只转弯次数。其次,统计AIS航迹途经岛屿、港口等地理区域的数量,若其与利用AIS航迹提取的船舶转弯次数不相等,则根据两者的差异自适应调整航速差阈值,重新提取船舶航路点,直至其与途经地理区域的数量相等,将平均航速差超出最终阈值的航迹段的连接点作为船舶航路点。然后,利用基于密度的聚类算法将所有船舶的航路点聚类为航路点集合,计算航路点集合的质心作为航道的航路点。最后,以航道航路点为顶点、航路点之间的连线为边构建有向图,并删除落在陆地上的连线后得到最终的航道提取结果。利用潍坊港—连云港港之间行驶的20条船舶的AIS数据开展了海上航道提取实验,结果表明,与基于交通路径异常检测的航道提取方法相比,本文方法得到的船舶航路点的平均虚检率降低了9.1%,平均漏检率降低了16.7%,显著提升了航道航路点位置提取的准确性。

海洋强国背景下浙江省教育科技人才发展的问题和对策

党的二十大报告提出“加快建设海洋强国”,浙江省海洋发展基础较好,近年来海洋强省建设不断加快,为海洋强国建设提供有力支撑。本文基于浙江省海洋经济发展数据,聚焦教育、科技、人才3个供给端关键要素,提出必须实现教育科技人才“三位一体”融合发展,才能培育浙江省海洋经济的新增长。并通过横向比较的方法,分析浙江建设海洋强省在教育、科技、人才三方面存在的不足,基于当前基础和政策,从加强海洋本土教育、提升科创平台能级、加大海洋人才引进力度三方面提出对策建议。