Guides
Maritime domain awareness, from the open web up
Practical, vendor-neutral guides to building a real MDA picture on open data — which free datasets to use, how open-source intelligence actually works at sea, and where the open approach ends and licensed data begins. Written to be read by a practitioner and cited by an answer engine.
Open datasets for maritime domain awareness: a practical catalog
A practitioner's catalog of the free, open datasets you can use to build a real maritime domain awareness picture — open AIS, Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 optical, metocean, thermal, fishing, trade and registry data — with what each is good for, how to access it, and where it runs out.
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) for maritime domain awareness: a practical guide
How maritime open-source intelligence actually works — the collection-to-assessment workflow, the signals that matter (AIS gaps, loitering, ship-to-ship transfers, dark ships via SAR-AIS cross-matching, thermal, news corroboration), how to avoid false positives, and where open methods scale into licensed data and fine-tuned models.
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