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The correlated exploitation of heterogeneous data sources offering very large historical as well as streaming data is important to increasing the accuracy of computations when analysing and predicting future states of moving entities. This is particularly critical in the maritime domain, where online tracking, early recognition of events, and real-time forecast of anticipated trajectories of vessels are crucial to safety and operations at sea. The objective of this paper is to review current research challenges and trends tied to the integration, management, analysis, and visualization of objects moving at sea as well as a few suggestions for a successful development of maritime forecasting and decision-support systems. Document type: Article

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Within the framework of SENSKIN EU project (grant No. 635844), we have developed a soft capacitive sensor using silicone dielectric elastomer for Structural health monitoring (SHM). This sensor has a thin layer of stretchable silicone dielectric film and soft silicone electrodes as the active layer, which transduces strain signal into the easy-monitored capacitance change. The sensor output is measured as a ration of the sensor’s capacitance to the known value of the reference capacitor. The capacitive output of the sensor showed a linear response upon stretching in the strain range of 4.5 % to 5.5% with a pre-strain of 5.0 %. The sensor output increased by 0.01 when the strain was increased by 1.0 %. The sensor was exposed to a temperature change from -35 oC to 55 oC (the supposed working temperature range) with a ramping of 0.2 oC/min and, as a result, it showed a linear temperature dependence behavior with a slope of -0.001 sensor output per oC. Therefore, with the help of the embedded Platinum-1000 temperature sensor, the thermal expansion effect on the capacitive output can be excluded from the actual strain-induced capacitance change. These results provide practical reference to the application of the silicon-elastomer sensor for the SHM systems.

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ong"The Final Conference of the SIMNORAT project took place in Brest (France) on 29-30 January 2019."/strong" On the first day, presentations introduced the Atlantic setting, informed about the national MSP implementation, gave an overview of the project results and shared the perspectives on MSP of other EU MSP projects. The activities and outcomes of the case studies were presented in a poster session (Bay of Biscay and North western marine waters of Iberian Coast case studies). On the second day, workshops were held on Ecosystem-based management, data needs and information on MSP as well as on Stakeholder engagement. "strong"Here you can find the presentations of the plenary sessions of the first day."/strong" The different documents of the conference have their own dedicated entries on Zenodo:"br" • Agenda and Minutes"br" • Case study posters"br" • Workshops --- "strong"PRESENTATIONS"/strong" 9.30 – 10.00: "strong"OPENING ADDRESSES"/strong""br" Facilitated by Dominique Carval, SIMNORAT Project Coordinator, Shom The SIMNORAT Final conference was opened by representatives of the city, the region, the European Commission as well as the Shom. Michel Gourcay, Vice-president, Brest Métropole Forough Salami-Dadkhah, Vice-President, Brittany Region David Sanmiguel, Project Adviser, Executive Agency for SMEs (EASME), European Commission Bruno Frachon, Director of Shom, SIMNORAT project leader The speeches were given without presentations. --- 10.00 – 10.30: "strong"SETTING THE ATLANTIC FRAME"/strong""br" Moderated by Corine Lochet, Deputy Director for international Relations, in charge of EU Affairs"br" Coordination, Shom The sessions on Setting the Atlantic frame and the State of Play of the national MSP implementations brought together a number of speakers from the national competent authorities from France, Spain, Portugal and the UK as well as from non-governmental bodies. Angela Schultz-Zehden, Project Leader, EU MSP Platform Claude Wohrer, Secretariat General to the Sea, France Damien Périssé, Director in Charge of Maritime Affairs, Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) --- 14.30 – 15.45: "strong"LESSONS LEARNT FROM SIMNORAT"/strong""br" Facilitated by Dominique Carval, SIMNORAT Project Coordinator, Shom Representatives of each project partner introduced their work on the different components, presented results and shared what they learnt from their involvement in the project. Lise Guennal, CPMR, The Role of the Regions in MSP Julien Dilasser, CEREMA, Marine Sectors Neil Alloncle & Fanny Bliard, AFB, Marine Conservation Ana Lloret, CEDEX, Organising Implementation of MSP Adriano Quintela, University of Aveiro, MSP Implementation Methodology Ronan Jarno, Shom, Data Needs and Gaps Denis Bailly, UBO, AMURE, Improving Stakeholder Engagement --- 16.15 – 17.45: "strong"PERSPECTIVES ON MSP"/strong""br" Moderated by Corine Lochet, Deputy Director for international relations, in charge of EU Affairs"br" Coordination, Shom Representatives of other European MSP projects shared their experience with the attendees of the SIMNORAT conference. A set of questions made the various perspectives on MSP comparable. Round table with the participation of: Niccolò Bassan, Università Iuav di Venezia, SUPREME Project Andrea Barbanti, Research Manager, ISMAR CNR, SIMWESTMED Project Ingela Isaksson, Project Manager, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Coordinator of the Pan Baltic Scope Project Kirsty Wright, Marine Scotland Science, NorthSEE project Gaël Potin, Research Engineer at La Réunion University, OCEAN METISS Project Cathal O'Mahony, EU Grant Coordinator, University College Cork, SIMCelt Project David Sanmiguel, Project Adviser, Executive Agency for SMEs (EASME), European Commission