Transportation Industry
AIS: the next necessity.
Marine Log, August, 2001 by Reininger, Stuart
A black night, a busy traffic lane, multiple radar targets and a VHF that, every few moments, bursts into life shattering the silence of the darkened wheelhouse. Invariably, the voice on the radio is attempting to contact or identify a ship whose actions, or merely its presence, is a cause of concern. With each transmission, the watch officer of every ship on the band instinctively determines whether or not the call applies to his vessel. Is own ship the vessel to starboard of the calling ship; is the radar blip astern trying to negotiate a passing agreement or is it another pair of ships further down the lane? Ship identification in close quarters is often performed in reference to nearby buoys or landmarks and lat/long coordinates. And all too often, and sometimes too...
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