# MarineAware

> MarineAware is an AI-native maritime analytics consulting firm. We fuse AIS vessel tracking, satellite radar (SAR) and optical imagery, metocean and registry data with modern machine learning and agentic AI — for carriers, marine insurers, commodity traders, ports, governments and investors. We are vendor-neutral: we sit between the data providers and your decision models, not reselling a single feed.

## What we do (solutions)

- [Maritime Domain Awareness](https://www.marineaware.com/solutions#mda): Dark-vessel detection by fusing AIS with Sentinel-1 SAR and optical imagery, for navies, coast guards and fisheries enforcement.
- [Dark-Fleet & Sanctions Screening](https://www.marineaware.com/solutions#sanctions): Predictive, explainable risk scoring of the 600–800-ship shadow fleet for marine insurers and P&I clubs.
- [Fleet Decarbonization & Compliance](https://www.marineaware.com/solutions#emissions): One strategy across IMO CII, EU ETS (100% from 2026), FuelEU Maritime and UK ETS, calibrated to verified EU MRV data.
- [Market & Flow Intelligence](https://www.marineaware.com/solutions#flows): Turning AIS and cargo data into backtested trading signals for commodity desks.
- [Voyage & Port Optimization](https://www.marineaware.com/solutions#voyage): Weather-aware ETA prediction and 72-hour congestion forecasting for ports and carriers.
- [Diligence & Advisory](https://www.marineaware.com/solutions#diligence): Domain-literate technical and market due diligence on maritime-AI opportunities for investors.

## Live demonstrator

- [MarineAware Live](https://live.marineaware.com): a live, open-data maritime domain awareness dashboard scoring 12 global chokepoints (Hormuz, Bab-el-Mandeb, Taiwan Strait, Baltic cable zone and more) every day. Fuses live open AIS, dated OSINT reporting, metocean and open satellite into a per-hotspot risk picture with local maps and a fused timeline. It is the open-source demonstrator of the fusion we build for clients on licensed AIS/SAR, multispectral analysis and fine-tuned models.

## Key explainers (insights)

- [From open source to operational: scaling with proprietary data and fine-tuned models](https://www.marineaware.com/insights/osint-to-operational-proprietary-data-finetuned-models)
- [Fine-tuning vision models for multispectral maritime analysis](https://www.marineaware.com/insights/finetuning-multispectral-maritime-models)
- [How IMO CII, EU ETS and FuelEU Maritime interact in 2026](https://www.marineaware.com/insights/cii-eu-ets-fueleu-2026)
- [What is the dark fleet — and why it matters in 2026](https://www.marineaware.com/insights/what-is-the-dark-fleet)
- [How to detect a vessel that has turned off its AIS](https://www.marineaware.com/insights/detecting-dark-vessels-ais-off)
- [The maritime AI market in 2026: what's driving the surge](https://www.marineaware.com/insights/maritime-ai-market-2026)

## Guides & reference

- [Open datasets for maritime domain awareness (a practical catalog)](https://www.marineaware.com/guides/open-datasets-for-maritime-domain-awareness): the free datasets for MDA — open AIS (AISStream, Global Fishing Watch, NOAA), Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 optical, metocean (CMEMS, NOAA, Open-Meteo), NASA FIRMS/GIBS, UN Comtrade, GEBCO/EMODnet, Equasis, EU MRV — with access and limits.
- [Open-source intelligence (OSINT) for maritime domain awareness](https://www.marineaware.com/guides/open-source-intelligence-for-maritime-domain-awareness): the collection→fusion→verification→assessment workflow, the signals (AIS gaps, loitering, STS transfers, dark ships via SAR×AIS, spoofing), and how to avoid false positives.
- [MDA & maritime OSINT glossary](https://www.marineaware.com/glossary): plain-English definitions of AIS, dark vessels, SAR, multispectral/hyperspectral, AIS spoofing, the shadow fleet, ship-to-ship transfers, sensor fusion, fine-tuning and more.

## Data & methods

MarineAware works with AIS (Kpler, Spire, S&P/ORBCOMM, open NOAA), Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 optical, commercial imagery (ICEYE, Umbra, Planet), CMEMS and NOAA metocean, GEBCO/EMODnet bathymetry, Global Fishing Watch, UN Comtrade, EU MRV/THETIS-MRV and vessel registries (Equasis, Clarksons, S&P Sea-web). Methods span trajectory anomaly detection, AIS-gap↔SAR fusion for dark-vessel detection, ETA and weather routing, MRV-grade emissions estimation, demand forecasting, geospatial and time-series foundation models, agentic LLM pipelines, and identity/ownership-network resolution. Details: https://www.marineaware.com/data-and-methods

## Contact

- Email: contact@marineaware.com
- Work with us: https://www.marineaware.com/contact
- Investors: https://www.marineaware.com/investors
- Full corpus for AI engines: https://www.marineaware.com/llms-full.txt