• List of VISIR-2 related publications
  • 2024
    • MTEC-ICMAS 2024 conference paper
    • VISIR-2 peer-reviewed paper
  • 2022
    • An assessment of the first four years of THETIS-MRV data:
    • Impact of COVID-19 on CO₂ emissions from ferries:
  • 2021
    • First results of the new model upgrade in python (VISIR-2):
  • 2020
    • Evaluation of VISIR’s solution vs. a PDE-based model by MIT:
    • A first dive into reported CO₂ emission data from ferries:
  • 2019
    • VISIR-1.b: the latest update of the model for including ocean currents: this manuscript includes a thorough description of its governing equations, validation, performance, extensive case studies:
    • Further thoughts on open science and open maritime data:
    • First comparison of VISIR tracks to AIS maritime traffic data:
    • Some thoughts on open maritime data:
  • 2018
    • Initial results on EEOI savings via operational vessel route optimisation:
  • 2017
    • Contribution to AtlantOS Science-Policy Briefing Paper #2:
  • 2016
    • The ultimate and comprehensive documentation of VISIR model:
    • VISIR’s code architecture and the goals of a future community of VISIR developers:
    • A technical presentation of the operational system for providing VISIR on PC, tablets, and smartphones:
  • 2015
    • VISIR’s extension to sailboats:
    • An invited contribution to a workshop organized by the Italian Navy on greening of maritime transportation:
  • 2013
    • The seminal publication about what eventually became the VISIR ship routing system:

List of VISIR-2 related publications

2024

MTEC-ICMAS 2024 conference paper

Mannarini, G., Salinas: A ferry route in the Skagerrak optimised via VISIR-2, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, (2867) 012003, https://doi.org//10.1088/1742-6596/2867/1/012003, 2024.

VISIR-2 peer-reviewed paper

Mannarini, G., Salinas, M. L., Carelli, L., Petacco, N., and Orović, J.: VISIR-2: ship weather routing in Python, Geosci. Model Dev., https://doi.org//10.5194/gmd-17-4355-2024, 2024.

2022

An assessment of the first four years of THETIS-MRV data:

Mannarini, G. and Salinas, M.L.: Emissioni marittime di CO₂ nello Spazio Economico Europeo, ICOS-Italy conference presentation (in Italian), https://zenodo.org/record/7132651, 2022.

Impact of COVID-19 on CO₂ emissions from ferries:

Mannarini, G., Salinas, M.L., Carelli, L., Fassò, A.: How COVID-19 Affected GHG Emissions of Ferries in Europe, Sustainability, 14(9), https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/9/5287, 2022.

2021

First results of the new model upgrade in python (VISIR-2):

Mannarini, G., Carelli, L., Orović, J., Martinkus, C.P., Coppini, G.: Towards Least-CO₂ Ferry Routes in the Adriatic Sea, J. Mar. Sci. Eng., 9(2), https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9020115, 2021.

2020

Evaluation of VISIR’s solution vs. a PDE-based model by MIT:

G. Mannarini, D. N. Subramani, P. F. J. Lermusiaux and N. Pinardi, “Graph-Search and Differential Equations for Time-Optimal Vessel Route Planning in Dynamic Ocean Waves,” in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 3581-3593, Aug. 2020, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2019.2935614.

A first dive into reported CO₂ emission data from ferries:

Mannarini, G., Carelli, L., Salhi A.: EU-MRV: an analysis of 2018’s Ro-Pax CO₂ data. In 21st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), pages 287–292. IEEE, 2020, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/MDM48529.2020.00065.

2019

VISIR-1.b: the latest update of the model for including ocean currents: this manuscript includes a thorough description of its governing equations, validation, performance, extensive case studies:

Mannarini, G. and Carelli, L.: VISIR-1.b: ocean surface gravity waves and currents for energy-efficient navigation, Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 3449–3480, doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-3449-2019, 2019.

Further thoughts on open science and open maritime data:

Mannarini, G.: Delivering open science for contributing to the societal challenge of climate change. in 5th AtlantOS project newsletter, 2019

First comparison of VISIR tracks to AIS maritime traffic data:

Mannarini G., Carelli L., Zissis D., Spiliopoulos G., Chatzikokolakis K.: Preliminary Inter-comparison of AIS Data and Optimal Ship Tracks. TransNav, the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, Vol. 13, No. 1, doi: https://doi.org/10.12716/1001.13.01.04, pp. 53-61, 2019

Some thoughts on open maritime data:

Mannarini, G., Towards an analytics of optimal ship routes based on meteo-oceanographic datasets in Proceedings of the CMRE Maritime Big Data Workshop, E. Camossi, A.-L. Jousselme (Eds.), La Spezia 2018

2018

Initial results on EEOI savings via operational vessel route optimisation:

Mannarini, G., Pinardi, N., Coppini, G.: Low Carbon Intensity Routes via Ocean Currents and Waves in Technology and Science for the Ships of the Future, A. Marinò and V. Bucci (Eds.) IOS Press, 2018. doi: https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-870-9-340

2017

Contribution to AtlantOS Science-Policy Briefing Paper #2:

Fritz, Jan-Stefan, Ketelhake, Sandra, Pinardi, Nadia, Horsburgh, Kevin, Mannarini, Gianandrea and Lehodey, Patrick: Science-Policy Briefing Paper and Event 2, AtlantOS Deliverable, D10.7 . AtlantOS, 4 pp. DOI https://doi.org/10.3289/AtlantOS_D10.7.

Preliminary results on the introduction of surface ocean currents into VISIR:

Mannarini, G., Coppini, G., Lecci R., Turrisi, G.: Sea Currents and Waves for Optimal Route Planning with VISIR, in 16th International Conference on Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries (Cardiff, 2017) ISBN 978-3-89220-690-3

2016

The ultimate and comprehensive documentation of VISIR model:

Mannarini, G., Pinardi, N., Coppini, G., Oddo, P., and Iafrati, A.: VISIR-I: small vessels – least-time nautical routes using wave forecasts, Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 1597-1625, doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1597-2016, 2016.

VISIR’s code architecture and the goals of a future community of VISIR developers:

Mannarini, G., Pinardi, N., Coppini, G.: VISIR: A Free and Open-Source Model for Ship Route optimization, 15th International Conference on Computer and IT Applications in the Maritime Industries (Lecce, 2016)

A technical presentation of the operational system for providing VISIR on PC, tablets, and smartphones:

Mannarini, G., Turrisi, G., D’Anca, A., Scalas, M., Pinardi, N., Coppini, G., Palermo, F., Carluccio, I., Scuro, M., Cretì, S., Lecci, R., Nassisi, P., and Tedesco, L.: VISIR: technological infrastructure of an operational service for safe and efficient navigation in the Mediterranean Sea, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 1791-1806, doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1791-2016, 2016.

2015

VISIR’s extension to sailboats:

Mannarini, G.; Lecci, R.; Coppini, G., “Introducing sailboats into ship routing system VISIR,” in Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA), 2015 6th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-6, 6-8 July 2015, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/IISA.2015.7387962

An invited contribution to a workshop organized by the Italian Navy on greening of maritime transportation:

G. Mannarini: The twofold aspect of climate change on navigation: the search for new maritime routes and the challenge of reducing the carbon footprint of ships. CMCC Research paper RP0252, March 2015

2013

The seminal publication about what eventually became the VISIR ship routing system:

Mannarini G., Coppini G., Oddo P., Pinardi N.: A Prototype of Ship Routing Decision Support System for an Operational Oceanographic Service. TransNav, the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, Vol. 7, No. 1, doi: https://doi.org/10.12716/1001.07.01.06, pp. 53-59, 2013