Presented at InnoTech San Antonio 2015. All rights reserved.

1. Brian Waechter
Strategic Associate
Analyze Corporation
www.analyzecorp.com
Case Study:
Making use of
satellite data and
big data analytics
OR…
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation
All rights reserved.

2. www.analyzecorp.com
Not a Fish Story:
Illegal Fishing for All
to See via Big Data
Behavioral Analytics
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation
All rights reserved.

3. Question: In an increasing socially-
conscious world, do you know from
whence your seafood entree came?
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved. 3

4. The Problem:
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing
4
Illegal fishing takes place where vessels operate in violation of the
laws of a fishery. This can apply to fisheries that are under the
jurisdiction of a coastal state or to high seas fisheries regulated by
regional organizations.
Unreported fishing is fishing that has been unreported or misreported
to the relevant national authority or regional organization, in
contravention of applicable laws and regulations.
Unregulated fishing generally refers to fishing by vessels without
nationality, or vessels flying the flag of a country not party to the
regional organization governing that fishing area or species.
According to a 2008 UN report, titled “The Sunken Billions: The
Economic Justification for Fisheries Reform”, the world's fishing fleets
are losing $50 billion USD each year through depleted stocks and poor
fisheries management.
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved.

5. • Goal:
 Identify vessel behavior
activity using Satellite
Automatic Identification
System (AIS) data
• Challenge:
 Illegal and threatening
behavior covers many different
motions and activities
 Requires advanced and
complex computer learning
 Involves voluminous amount
of data
IUU Fishing--Behavioral Analytics Match
2009 to 2013 AIS Data
125,000 Unique Vessels
500 million Messages
= 3 Billion Data PointsCopyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved. 5

6. The Collaborative Team
6
Data Sharing Analysis Collaboration Insight
Credit: Ken Campbell
Digital Globe
Technology
 Sensor Data
 Analytic Capabilities
 System Integration
 Social Networks
 Crowd Sourcing
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved.

7.  Classic “big data” analytics strategy
 Data Acquisition – Satellite AIS Data
 Data Extraction - Raw AIS sensor data is dirty
 Data Analysis using a variety of statistical and machine
learning techniques
 Predictive Analytics involves creating
unique prediction functions
 Objective: Identify motion behavior through
motion analytics
The Process
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved. 7

8. Timely, Continuous Global Coverage =
Timely, Continuous Global Data
8
Ship locations with
shore-based AIS
receivers
Ship locations with
space-based AIS
receivers
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved.

9. Travel Work Travel
Technical Approach
Identify basic vessel pattern based on economic incentive and
expected activity for the vessel type
One can understand a single vessel’s behavior…
but 125,000 vessels every day?
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved. 9

10.  Automated model
 Geometric & pattern matching
 Machine learning
 Adjusts over time via weighted algorithms based on data
 Determines which vessels are “troublesome”
(IUU behavior) over five-year period
 Provides intelligence for later interdiction
and/or legal evidence
Behavioral Modeling
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved. 10

11. Behavior Patterns
Travel
Travel
Work
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved. 11

12. Satellite AIS Data Points
KEY:
Green = Travel
Blue = Somewhat Erratic
Red = Work
Pink = Extremely Erratic
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved. 12

13. Possible Working Activity
Denotes Working Activity
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved. 13

14. Working Activity Identified
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved. 14

15. The following video shows a dynamic visualization of vessels
engaged in fishing activity changing over a one year period
 Tracks of fishing and other vessels are detected with satellite-based AIS
receivers operated by SpaceQuest
 Vessel tracks are classified by Analyze to rate the likelihood that a ship was
actively engaged in fishing activity at each point
 Each detection is highlighted using a visualization technology developed
jointly by Google and SkyTruth
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TOB3X-rw3U
Baseline activity is compared to what is expected and the
differences are highlighted as potential threats for interdiction
and/or legal action
Results
15
Collaboration Insight
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved.

16. Summary
 Conclusion
 Vessel behaviors can be identified through motion analytics
using satellite AIS data alone
 Lat/Long and time all that is needed (VMS/LRIT/SAR)
 Insights can now be pushed to operations
 Way Ahead
 Display real time results
 Integrate into user-specific platforms
 Flag potential anomalous activity long before it become a threat
 Other Applications
 Created station-keeping algorithms with Mapquest—where
vehicles stop and why
 Profiled insider threat behavior (mouse/keyboard activity) for
Verisign and Zone Fox
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved. 16

17. Analyze and Illegal Fishing
in the News
17
http://www.wired.com/
2014/11/plan-map-
illegal-fishing-space/
http://www.wsj.com/arti
cles/google-partners-
target-illegal-fishing-
with-new-technology-
1415927971
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved.

18. Analyze® Technology Application
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved. 18
3) Text1) Geospatial 2) Sociometric
PLATFORMSPRODUCTSCUSTOMERS

19. Analyze™
a big data analytics company
software-as-a-service (products) custom advanced analytics (services)
http://analyzecorp.com/for-everyone-to-see/http://www.analyzeclients.com/http://www.analyzeimpact.org/
Copyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved. 19

20. your data our science
Founded February 2013
Headquarters:
Fairfax, VA
Technology Office:
Boston, MA 20
a “big data” “analytics” company
Field Office:
San Antonio, TXCopyright 2015 Analyze Corporation. All
rights reserved.