Maritime safety monitoring on the Northern Sea Route

GIS-oriented systems are often used for maritime safety monitoring and situation assessment. Such systems allow to analyze, visualize receiving information and what is more to support organizational decision-making processes in various dangerous situations. This paper presents an approach to maritime safety monitoring in the Arctic seas on the base of special system - intelligent GIS. Ontology, expert subsystem and some other artificial intelligence technologies are proposed as basic ones for the system implementation. The application of the technique is illustrated via case study of situational route planning for a vessel navigating along the Northern Sea Route.