Data fusion challenges for AIS anti-piracy measures

Cruise operators offer a big amount on services in high quality onboard amenities. Cruise vessels has became a target for pirates because its potential value. These attackers use more and more sophisticated tools and strategies to perform successful attacks. In consequence, detection systems need to evolve to take in account these new threats. No system are able to cover all detection requirements, so proposed solution will operate with complementary sub-systems as AIS, radar and cameras.The aim of this position paper is to introduce current threats and challenges specifically related to Automatic Identification System (AIS) anti-piracy measures and how it can be useful in fusion detection methods. We also introduce ISOLA system as a complete detection and decision aid support against, among other threats, piracy attacks.