Japan developing AI, satellite system to track foreign ships in its waters:
Japan is developing a maritime surveillance system that will use artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced satellite technologies to identify and track foreign ships operating suspiciously close to its waters or that intrude into its territory.
The government is earmarking an initial 450 million yen (US$4.1 million) for the project under the third supplementary budget for fiscal 2020, with technology companies being invited to submit proposals for the system.
An analyst said Tokyo is finding it difficult to keep track of the vessels illegally entering its vast ocean territories.
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Japan Developing AI, Satellite System to Track Foreign Ships in its Waters
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 20 2021, @05:53AM (2 children)
Give the home fleet a subsidy to install a trusted responder system, investigate any boat that is on radar but didn't send a proper response.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 20 2021, @12:22PM (1 child)
Radar needs line of sight. So to get the range, either the radar and/or target needs to be elevated. Radar in planes looking for ships seems a lot of trouble.
Too bad the starlink sats don't have cameras as a side payload.
(Score: 3, Touché) by VLM on Friday August 20 2021, @03:08PM
yeah, as far as you know
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 20 2021, @01:45PM
Japan developing AI, satellite-based surveillance system to track Chinese ships in its waters
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday August 20 2021, @01:47PM
sending a signal to China.
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(Score: 2) by corey on Friday August 20 2021, @01:54PM
I just skimmed the whole article and it’s severely light in detail. It spends more time on why the system is needed. Is it to use visual images or radar? SAR? What about resolution? How are they going to train it? Etc.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Friday August 20 2021, @03:13PM
Its being marketed as using AI just to paint the hull and get a single datapoint of "thar be a boat" but the real purpose is AI analysis over time of vehicle tracks to detect illegal fishing.
Nobody cares if a foreign fishing boat transits an area in a normal fashion "just passing thru" but when they slow down and straight line because they dropped nets in an illegal historically overfished area, THEN the AI can flag them and send in the coasties and all that.
Has an interesting side effect of building an AI that can find fish well enough to find the humans who can find fish. Illegal fishermen fishing where theres no fish are not going to be the priority compared to illegal fishermen fishing where there are indeed fish to catch.