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Earth Visualizations of the Marine Automatic Identification
System (AIS): Monitoring Ship Traffic in National Marine
Sanctuaries
Abstract The
Automatic Identification System (AIS) is a new technology that
provides ship position reports with location, time, and identity
information without human intervention from ships carrying the
transponders to any receiver listening to the broadcasts. (read
more .....)
IMO
Guidelines On Annual Testing Of The Automatic Identification
System (AIS) (MSC.1/Circ.1252, 22 October 2007)
1. The Maritime Safety
Committee, at its eighty-third session (3-12 October 2007),
approved the Guidelines on annual testing of the Automatic
Identification System (AIS) developed by the Sub-Committee on
Flag State Implementation, as set out in the annex.
2. The purpose of an annual testing is to determine that AIS is
operational as defined in appropriate performance standards not
inferior to those adopted by the Organization*.
3. To assist in achieving this aim, it is recommended that all
AIS be subject to a standard method of testing as detailed in
the annexed Guidelines.
4. Member Governments are invited to bring these Guidelines to
the attention of shipping companies, shipowners, ship operators,
equipment manufacturers, recognized organizations, shipmasters
and all parties concerned.
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(Courtesy: International Maritime Organisation)
AIS - Automatic Identification System
On Monday
the 26th of November, Cormac
EI4HQ will give a talk to the South Eastern Amateur
Radio Group, based in
Waterford
,
Ireland
, about AIS
- Automatic Identification System, a recently
introduced radio-based ship transponder technology. (read
more .....)
(Courtesy:
The
Southgate
Amateur Radio Club)
China
committed to clean seas
To date, 73
automatic identification system (AIS) stations have been built,
aiming to form a wide-ranged AIS network to cover the country's
near seas.
The MSAs have also upgraded the navigation marks in the nation's
seaports and near sea areas to ensure the safety of vessels. (read
more .....)
(
China
Daily
November 7, 2007)
Fidus
Systems Introduces Customizable Automatic Identification System
(AIS) Transceiver
eNavigation Conference,
Seattle
,
WA
- November 13, 2007 -- Fidus Systems Inc., an electronic product
development company, today introduced a customizable Automatic
Identification System (AIS) Transceiver. The Fidus Transceiver
provides a flexible, easy to integrate AIS solution for a number
of maritime systems supporting navigation, coastal surveillance,
and port security (read
more .....)
(Courtesy:
Military Embedded Systems)
International
telecommunication
Union
(ITU)
Long range detection of automatic identification system (AIS)
messages under various tropospheric propagation conditions Report
M.2123 (2007) (read
more .....)
Implementation
of LRIT - key decisions made at IMO's Maritime Safety Committee
Maritime Safety Committee -
83rd session: 3-12 October 2007
Key decisions relating to the implementation of the Long Range
Identification and Tracking (LRIT) System were made by IMO's
Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), when it met in
Copenhagen
,
Denmark
, for its 83rd session from 3 to 12 October. (read
more .....)
(Courtesy: International Maritime Organisation)
COM DEV to
develop space-based AIS
COM DEV
International, a manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, have
announced that the company has secured a space flight
opportunity to demonstrate an advanced AIS data detection
capability from space.
(read
more .....) (Courtesy: Digital Ship, November 2007)
Third
SAR-Lupe satellite launched successfully into its orbit
Automatic
Identification System (AIS) for receiving ship signals also on
board the COSMOS launcher for OHB. Bremen/Plesetsk,
11-01-07. (read
more .....)
(Courtesy: OHB-System AG)
HELCOM/EMSA project on monitoring the banning of carriage of
heavy grade oil in single hull tankers (2005-2007)
Background:
Monitoring the enforcement of international rules by ships can
be strengthened by making fuller use of the new tools available
to control shipping traffic, e.g. the Automatic Identification
System. HELCOM/EMSA project on monitoring the banning of
carriage of heavy grade oil in single hull tankers (Single Hull
Tanker Project) exploits the national and regional traffic
monitoring systems of the
Baltic Sea
countries and EMSA database systems as well as the Paris
Memorandum of Understanding Secretariat list of banned vessels
by the HELCOM Automatic Identification System (AIS). (read
more .....)
(Courtesy:
Helsinki
Commission)
Collision avoidance: Dee Caffari rates AIS
I asked
Dee
for her assessment of AIS, or Automatic Identification System, a
bit of kit that ought to be a massive help in avoiding collision
at sea, and particularly of being run down by a ship. They might
not see you, but with AIS you would know where they are even in
atrocious vis, along with their course, speed, closest point of
approach and time to CPA.
Here's
Dee
's evaluation from her Open 60 Aviva:
'All OC Events races and the Figaro make an AIS receiver
compulsory on their races. It will only be a matter of time
before IMOCA [the Open 60 class] also have it in their handbook.
'I am now a complete fan.
(read
more .....)
(Courtesy: Elaine
Bunting, Yachting World, 7 November 2007)
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