The Change of Geographic Distribution of Piracy Attacks Around Somalia

Recently, piracy attacks occurred off the coast of Somalia and threaten the ships and vessels navigating on the sea lane between Asia and Europe. The purpose of this study is to analyze the change of geographic distribution of piracy attacks around Somalia. To achieve this purpose, the authors plotted the points of piracy attacks from 2005 to 2013 using Geographic Information System and analyze the distance from coast of Somalia and transit corridor in the Gulf of Aden, and Kernel Density Method.