SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HARVESTING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FROM MARITIME COMMUNICATIONS

A system for harvesting business intelligence from maritime communications uses AIS signals as the source of information regarding the position and heading of vessels. The system builds and maintains a data base of location information of vessels within one or more defined geographic areas over time. The system further includes definitions of points of interest and can use the information from the AIS signals to identify and store events associated with the points of information.