Unsupervised Port Berth Identification from Automatic Identification System Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12046v1
• Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 15:17:39 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised Port Berth Identification from Automatic Identification System Data
• Authors: Andreas Hadjipieris, Neofytos Dimitriou, Ognjen Arandjelović,
• Abstract summary: Port berthing sites are regions of high interest for monitoring and optimizing port operations.<n>Data sourced from the Automatic Identification System (AIS) can be superimposed on berths enabling their real-time monitoring and revealing long-term utilization patterns.<n>However, publicly available documentation of port berths, even when available, is frequently incomplete.<n>We propose an unsupervised spatial modeling method that leverages AIS data clustering and hyper parameter optimization to identify berthing sites.
• Score: 1.9561775591923982
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Port berthing sites are regions of high interest for monitoring and optimizing port operations. Data sourced from the Automatic Identification System (AIS) can be superimposed on berths enabling their real-time monitoring and revealing long-term utilization patterns. Ultimately, insights from multiple berths can uncover bottlenecks, and lead to the optimization of the underlying supply chain of the port and beyond. However, publicly available documentation of port berths, even when available, is frequently incomplete - e.g. there may be missing berths or inaccuracies such as incorrect boundary boxes - necessitating a more robust, data-driven approach to port berth localization. In this context, we propose an unsupervised spatial modeling method that leverages AIS data clustering and hyperparameter optimization to identify berthing sites. Trained on one month of freely available AIS data and evaluated across ports of varying sizes, our models significantly outperform competing methods, achieving a mean Bhattacharyya distance of 0.85 when comparing Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) trained on separate data splits, compared to 13.56 for the best existing method. Qualitative comparison with satellite images and existing berth labels further supports the superiority of our method, revealing more precise berth boundaries and improved spatial resolution across diverse port environments.

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