The IPATCH System for Maritime Surveillance and Piracy Threat Classification

In the EU FP7 project IPATCH, we are researching components for a maritime piracy early detection and avoidance system for deployment on merchant vessels. The system combines information from on-board sensors with intelligence from external sources in order to give early warnings about piracy threats. In this paper we present the ongoing work with the development of an integrated system fusing heterogeneous data.