Optimizing the Coverage of Navigable Waterways: The Optimal Placement of Environmental Monitoring Stations

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Mackessy-Lloyd, Trevor

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This paper presents a method for optimally placing environmental monitoring stations to maximize coverage of areas that enhance the safety of commercial marine navigation. This method is based on traditional maximal covering formulations, incorporating marine traffic volume data derived from Automatic Identification System (AIS) broadcast data to prioritize high volume areas. This research shows that operations research techniques can be used as the basis for designing navigation support networks, highlighting the synergy found between coastal oceanography, geographic information science and optimization modeling.

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Operations research, Navigation safety, Covering models, Linear programming, Regional infrastructure, Earth observing systems

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