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  2. Automatic identification system - Wikipedia

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    An AIS-equipped system on board a ship presents the bearing and distance of nearby vessels in a radar-like display format. A graphical display of AIS data on board a ship. The automatic identification system (AIS) is an automatic tracking system that uses transceivers on ships and is used by vessel traffic services (VTS).

  3. SeaVision - Wikipedia

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    Dependence on Data Quality and Sharing: SeaVision's effectiveness is contingent upon the quality and timeliness of data from various sources, including the Automatic Identification System (AIS), satellite imagery, and radar. In regions where data collection infrastructure is underdeveloped or where data sharing among nations is inconsistent ...

  4. Real-time locating system - Wikipedia

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    The term RTLS was created (circa 1998) at the ID EXPO trade show by Tim Harrington (WhereNet), Jay Werb (PinPoint), and Bert Moore (Automatic Identification Manufacturers, Inc., AIM). It was created to describe and differentiate an emerging technology that not only provided the automatic identification capabilities of active RFID tags, but also ...

  5. Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System

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    It is a national automated fingerprint identification and criminal history system. IAFIS provides automated fingerprint search capabilities, latent searching capability, electronic image storage, and electronic exchange of fingerprints and responses.

  6. Automatic identification and data capture - Wikipedia

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    AIDC is also commonly referred to as "Automatic Identification", "Auto-ID" and "Automatic Data Capture". [2] AIDC is the process or means of obtaining external data, particularly through the analysis of images, sounds, or videos. To capture data, a transducer is employed which converts the actual image or a sound into a digital file. The file ...

  7. Integrated Coastal Surveillance System - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Automatic Identification System (IAIS), or Indian AIS, is an indigenous automatic identification system (AIS) developed by the Defence Electronics Application Laboratory (DEAL) in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, and produced by Bharat Electronics at Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Development of the system began in the early 2010s and entered ...

  8. Search and rescue transponder - Wikipedia

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    These devices may be either a radar-SART, or a GPS-based AIS-SART (automatic identification system SART). The radar-SART is used to locate a survival craft or distressed vessel by creating a series of dots on a rescuing ship's radar display. A SART will only respond to a 9 GHz X-band (3 cm wavelength) radar.

  9. Maritime identification digits - Wikipedia

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    Maritime identification digits are used by radio communication facilities to identify their home country or base area in digital selective calling (DSC), Automatic Transmitter Identification System (ATIS), and Automatic identification system (AIS) messages as part of their Maritime Mobile Service Identities.