The unrestricted development and utilization of marine resources have resulted in a series of practical problems, such as the destruction of marine ecology. The wide application of radar, satellites and other detection equipment has gradually led to a large variety of large-capacity marine spatiotemporal trajectory data from a vast number of sources. In the field of marine domain awareness, there is an urgent need to use relevant information technology means to control and monitor ships and accurately classify and identify ship behavior patterns through multisource data fusion analysis. In addition, the increase in the type and quantity of trajectory data has produced a corresponding increa... More >

Presents the introductory editorial for this issue of the publication. More >