Data Points

⚓ Vessel / Ship

🔧 Native workbench

🔗 Analyst pivots

🔍 Lookup

📜 Playbook — Vessel / Ship exploitation

1. Direction — frame the requirement for Vessel / Ship: what decision does this support, by when?
2. Collection — pull the 0 mapped sources (0 free) and the native workbench (open); capture provenance and observe OPSEC.
3. Processing — normalize, de-duplicate and enrich the collected data.
4. Analysis — correlate against local holdings; apply ACH; assign confidence.
5. Dissemination — open a case, draft a report, share via STIX/MISP.
6. Feedback — set an alert rule / watchlist to monitor for change.

⚡ AI Skills & Automation

Automate unattended via the cron pipeline (collect → ingest → resolve → enrich → score → alert).

🗃 Data Management

🧩 Advanced Capabilities

✨ Enrichment pathways

🎫 Vessel / Ship

A vessel is a seagoing ship uniquely identified by an IMO number, MMSI and callsign, broadcasting position via AIS. Vessels are central to sanctions evasion (dark-fleet oil, ship-to-ship transfers), smuggling and IUU fishing, so tracking their identity, ownership and movements is a core maritime-intelligence task.

Format: IMO number: 'IMO' + 7 digits with modulo-10 check digit (last 6 digits weighted 7..2). MMSI: 9 digits, first 3 = MID country code. Callsign: ITU alphanumeric.

📡 How it is collected

• AIS position broadcasts (terrestrial + satellite)
• IMO/MMSI registries and classification society records
• Port state control and port-call databases
• Flag-registry and ownership filings
• Satellite / SAR imagery for dark (AIS-off) vessels
• Bills of lading and charter-party documents

📚 Enrichment & validation sources

🔗 Pivot to

🧩 Analysis & hunting techniques

• IMO check-digit validation and identity-swap detection
• AIS gap / dark-activity analysis
• Ship-to-ship (STS) transfer detection by loitering/rendezvous
• Flag-hopping and name-change history tracking
• Draught-change laden/ballast inference
• Beneficial-ownership network mapping
• Spoofed-GNSS position anomaly detection
• SAR-to-AIS correlation for dark hulls

🔧 Tools

• MarineTraffic
• VesselFinder
• Global Fishing Watch
• Datalastic
• Equasis
• Sentinel Hub / Copernicus
• Maltego
• Windward (ref)

⚡ Workbench actions

• Validate IMO check digit
• Plot AIS track and detect gaps
• Detect STS rendezvous events
• Resolve beneficial ownership chain
• Show flag/name change history
• Screen against OFAC/EU/UK sanctions
• Correlate with satellite imagery
• Map port-call timeline

📊 Dashboard KPIs

📂 Open