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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.
(download .......) (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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