MERIDIAN is pleased to share two new publications on our work!Learn about our research on vessel-tracking data in Maritime tracking data analysis and integration with AISdb led by Dr. Gabriel Spadon and Dr. Ron Pelot in collaboration with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO).For acoustic data, Designing Cyberinfrastructure for Knowledge Sharing: A Read more…
We are pleased to announce the publication of two new research papers on AIS (Automatic Identification System) research, co-authored by Dr. Gabriel Spadon and his collaborators. Authors: Mahbub Alam, Dr. Gabriel Spadon, Mohamed Etemad, Luis Torgo, Evangelos Milios This paper presents a novel approach to improving short-term vessel trajectory prediction. Read more…
Videos from our workshop Insights from Vessel Tracking Data: A Workshop on Analyzing and Visualizing Maritime Activity on May 4th, 2023, are now online! The event aimed to identify user requirements, challenges, and barriers using Automatic Identification System (AIS) data and to solve these. We presented existing software solutions to Read more…
Spring has arrived and MERIDIAN 2.0 has exciting news for you. Read about our latest updates here: Meridian eNewsletter May 2023.
The most recent project of a fruitful collaboration between MERIDIAN and CEOTR at Dalhousie University is the installation of an AIS (automatic identification system) antenna at Sandy Cove. Since installed on February 16th 2023, the antenna is feeding AIS data to our server and live and cleaned vessel tracks can Read more…
On 1–3 November 2022, the Ocean Network Canada (ONC) at the University of Victoria and the Marine Environmental Research Infrastructure for Data Integration and Application Network (MERIDIAN) at Dalhousie University hosted our second joint workshop, a webinar titled Machine Learning Advances for Marine Acoustics and Imagery Data. We invited marine Read more…
Season’s greetings to our partners and users! To help ring in the new year, MERIDIAN is pleased to announce the release of a new publication, FishSounds version 1.0: a website for the compilation of fish sound production information and recordings. The article in Ecological Informatics describes the design and significance Read more…
Read about our latest updates and upcoming event(s) right here – Meridian eNewsletter October 2022.
We would like to invite you to attend the Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) & MERIDIAN workshop this fall (November 1st – 3rd, 2022 from 12:30 to 4:30pm ADT each day) on Machine Learning Advances for Marine Acoustics and Imagery Data The workshop will be held in webinar format with technical Read more…
We celebrate two recent publications of Dr Gabriel Spadon de Souza, Dr Martha Dais Ferreira and Prof Stan Matwin from the Big Data Institute at Dalhousie University in collaboration with Dr Amilcar Soares from Memorial University: Unfolding AIS transmission behaviour for vessel movement modeling on noisy data leveraging machine learning Read more…
