Improved functionalities supporting the geographical analysis of marine accidents have been added to the European Marine Casualty Information Platform – EMCIP.
EMSA’s Traffic Density Maps (TDM) have been added into the platform, offering EMCIP users additional capabilities in their analysis of marine casualties and incidents.
The tool combines the geographical distribution of accidents reported in EMCIP with the ship movement patterns available in TDM, contributing to a better understanding of maritime traffic and enhancing overall ship safety.
The combined picture makes it possible, for instance, to assess whether navigation accidents occur in areas characterised by high or low shipping traffic.
said EMSA.
Moreover, the new EMCIP makes it possible to run geographic queries based on polygons to pinpoint and export accidents affecting specific sea areas. As a result, national authorities can draw complex polygons to obtain accident data concerning a particular port area, the territorial sea of a Member State, a sea basin of interest.
Such polygons can be combined with other queries and saved in the system to be reused in the future, providing statistics on marine casualties and incidents affecting a specific sea area on a regular basis.
Finally, an enhanced query engine has been developed to quickly visualise data on the interface, ensuring high system performance and better user experience.
