About
A public research project about maritime evidence, AI, and institutional judgment
MarineAware is an independent research demonstrator created by Dipankar Sarkar. It explores how open vessel, satellite, weather, registry, and reporting data can support transparent maritime analysis—and where those sources are too incomplete for a defensible conclusion.
Creator
Dipankar Sarkar
Dipankar is a deep-technology founder and strategic-studies practitioner with a computer-science background. His research asks how AI, compute, maritime systems, and startups reshape state capacity and geopolitical power.
MarineAware connects that technical background to a policy question: what may an accountable institution conclude when public maritime sources are incomplete, delayed, cooperative, or unsuitable for the claimed task?
Read the durable biography and research record at dipankar.name.
Research principles
Retrieved, not merely configured
Every build should list the sources it actually retrieved. A source named in an architecture is not evidence present in an assessment.
Observation before inference
A missing AIS position or reporting item describes the collection result. It does not establish that no vessel or event existed.
Unknown is a valid result
When activity evidence is absent, the interface should say insufficient evidence rather than converting a structural prior into a reassuring current label.
AI narrates; evidence decides
A language model may explain computed signals. It is not a sensor, a second source, or authority to upgrade unsuitable data into a finding.
What the public project is
- • An open-data demonstrator and research portfolio.
- • A place to publish source roles, assumptions, formulas, limitations, and corrections.
- • A test bed for evidence states, provenance, and human-accountability controls.
- • An invitation to methods critique, seminars, and bounded research collaboration.
What it is not
- • Not an operational surveillance or maritime-domain-awareness service.
- • Not evidence of government, defence, insurer, trader, or shipping-client deployment.
- • Not persistent global AIS, SAR, or optical coverage.
- • Not navigational, security, sanctions, legal, insurance, investment, or trading advice.
Corrections and evidence challenges
Make the challenge specific and reproducible
Send the page URL, challenged wording, source, and reason to contact@marineaware.com. Material corrections should preserve what changed, why, when, and which evidence supports the revised conclusion.
Challenge the method or propose a research exchange.
MarineAware welcomes specific criticism, seminar invitations, and bounded collaborations around maritime evidence and accountable AI.