SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC DATA MINING AND DISTRIBUTION OF MARITIME DATA

摘要

A system for dynamically collecting and distributing maritime data includes avessel configured to transmit at apredetermined time, or upon electronic inquiry, a signal representative of acurrent location of the vessel or an expected location ofthe vessel; a computer network including one or more databases, each of whichincludes one or more zone of concern data, whereinthe zone of concern data corresponds to a zone of concern; and a serviceprovider configured to receive the signal, retrieve the oneor more zone of concern data from the computer network based upon the signaland transmit the one or more zone of concern datato the vessel. The zone of concern data, which may be continually changing,may be sent from the service provider to the vessel ona continuous basis with respect to the changing location and heading of thevessel.