Correlation of Virtual Aids to Navigation to the Physical Environment

¹ World Maritime University, Malmö, Sweden
² GMATEK, Inc., Annapolis, MD, USA
³ Hochschule Wismar, University of Applied Sciences: Technology, Business and Design, Wismar, Germany

DOI: 10.12716/1001.10.02.11

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ABSTRACT: Virtual electronic aids to navigation are being introduced into the present short range aids to navigation system in the form of Automated Information System radio-based aids. Research is also underway into the development of their equivalents for use in regions that feature hostile environments, are poorly charted and lack any infrastructure whatsoever to support traditional or radio navigation aids. Such aids are entirely virtual in nature and exist only as a digital data object that resides within an electronic navigation chart for display to mariners through an Electronic Chart Display and Information System. They are at present experimental in nature, and are not intended to replace existing physical or radio-based aids to navigation. Results of research are described in terms of fulfilling traditional navigation aid functions and the development of new functions that are only possible using virtual aids. Their advantages in design and implementation are highlighted, as are their limitations and shortcomings as compared to present methodologies. Notable, however, is the approach used to overcome limitations and shortcomings by considering attributes of the physical environment to ensure their proper location and display of correct characteristics. Such an approach is unique in the modern world, yet it emulates ancient methods of navigation using known landmarks and terrain features.

KEYWORDS: Marine Navigation, Aids to Navigation (AtoN), AIS Data, Electronic Navigation, Virtual Aids to Navigation, Physical Environment, ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System), Landmarks

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Wright R.G., Baldauf M.: Correlation of Virtual Aids to Navigation to the Physical Environment. TransNav, the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, Vol. 10, No. 2, doi:10.12716/1001.10.02.11, pp. 287-299, 2016

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