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. 2019 Feb 22;19(4):926. doi: 10.3390/s19040926
3DP 3D Printing and Additive Engineering
AI Artificial Intelligence
AIS Automatic Identification Systems
ANAVE Spanish Association of Shipping Companies (from the Spanish “Asociación de Navieros Españoles”)
AR Augmented Reality
CAD Computer Aided Design
CMDS Common Maritime Data Structure
Cloud Cloud and Edge Computing
CRM Customer Relationship Management
EU European Union
FIWARE European Union Future Internet platform
GIS Geographic Information Systems
HMD Head-Mounted Display
IAR Industrial Augmented Reality
IDA* Iterative Deepening A* algorithm
IMO International Maritime Organization
IOS Inter-organizational information systems
IoT Internet of Things
IT Information Technology
IT/IS Information Technologies/Information Systems
MMG Maneuvering Modeling Group
NLP natural language processing
QR Quick Response code
RFID Radio Frequency Identification
Robotics Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics
S-AIS Satellite-Automatic Identification Systems
SDN Software Defined Network
SLAM Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
SOA Service Oriented Architecture
SW Software
UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UV Unmanned vehicles
UAV Unmanned aerial vehicle
UPM Polytechnic University of Madrid (from the Spanish “Universidad Politécnica de Madrid”)
UnV Underwater vehicles
VR Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality
VTS Vessel Traffic Services