A Study on Extracting Characteristics and Automatic Processing of Maritime Safety Information

Abstract

Existing methods of obtaining MSI (Maritime Safety Information) take traditional style. Purpose of this study is to solve disadvantages of NAVTEX and EGC receiver. Our developing systems can help every deck officer by automatic processing of MSI. These systems are able to extract characteristics from MSI. It is important to understand for specifying locations where and when exercises are conducted or terms of them. All deck officers don’t need correcting past data of MSI printed by NAVTEX receiver, because it will do the works instead of deck officers and can also work continuously and more precisely. It also can select any helpful information from MSI on web site by deck officers and can search related information to build a navigational plan. Learning from these results, any deck officers who aren’t good at English can understand MSI easily.