Paper Title
A Real-Time Environmental Data for Risk-Aware Coastal Activity Planning and Safety Assessment
Abstract
The need for changing weather and sea patterns makes coastal and maritime activities such as fishing, tourism, and water games highly dependent on these elements. Abrupt changes in these elements could lead to hazardous situations, thus raising the possibility of an accident. However, all the safety tools available require general weather applications that are limited to providing numerical representations or are rigid safety guidelines that are not adjustable according to changing situations. They are thus not suitable for assessing the safety of maritime activities. The tool uses fourtreen predefined safety rules and processes data gathered from meteorological websites such as Meteoblue and OpenWeatherMap, and tidal data. The tool generates easy safety assessments with decision outcomes such as SAFE, CAUTION, UNSAFE, and FORBIDDEN. The decision-making performance achieves high accuracy and consistency with expert opinions with response times below 500 milliseconds even for forty-seven different scenarios.
Keywords - Coastal Safety, Rule-Based Systems, Environmental Risk Assessment, Maritime Activity Planning, Real-Time Data Integration, Environmental risk analysis.