Elaborazione di dati trasmessi da pescherecci = Processing of fishing vessel transmitted information

The over-exploitation of marine resources could lead to the extinction of some species and to the reduction of the food availability for several countries. In order to avoid such situation, a supervision of the fishing activity is required. In order to support this monitoring feature the Networked Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory (NeMIS) of the CNR Institute of Information Science and Technology (ISTI), in the context of the iMarine European project (www.i-marine.eu), has built an infrastructural service which is able to analyze the trajectories of a group of vessels, collected during a certain temporal range, and to classify activities point-by-point. In addition, This service supports a monitoring system with different resolutions for monthly fishing activity in the different areas of the oceans. It also allows to visualize on geographical maps the fishing activity effort and, consequently, the exploitation of some ocean zones.