A review of maritime communications systems and sensors for offshore applications.

In the last period (last 3 years) the maritime domain, especially the sea transportation and fossil resources exploitation became the most important aspects of the international politics and our lives. Because of the COVID19 situation and now the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the maritime domain was pushed to its limits. What a few years ago was a safety area of navigation, now this one can be transformed very quickly in a dangerous one. It is important to develop fast, systems for monitoring sea areas and platforms of intervention in case of distress situations. To have a real-time system of monitoring and intervention on sea it is mandatory to have redundant maritime communications. The article presents the most relevant publications related to maritime offshore applications and communications that support them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]