Abstract
Density of sea traffic and an increasing number of ships requires the application of new technologies in vessel traffic monitoring in order to find new solutions for existing problems. The solution is identified through application of e-navigation concept by connecting maritime institutions on shore with ships and vessels for better information sharing and integration. The implementation of e-navigation requires adaptation of existing navigation and communication systems to this new concept. The aim of this paper is to present the ECDIS development possibility through requirements of e-navigation, based on end-user needs. Given the large number of devices and systems used in navigation, ECDIS adaptation to e-navigation requirements makes sense only through a thorough understanding of user’s needs. By integrating all available information, organizing them into a database, and presenting them in a specific fashion, a suitable platform for decision-making in everyday ship navigation is created. Since the application of ECDIS onboard has become obligatory and ship’s primary navigational device, the adaptation to e -navigation requirements would mean also becoming a central decision support system onboard.
Highlights
We will concentrate not as much on maritime communications because ECDIS is the only system, as a central system for presentation of different information that can meet user needs and requirements for e-navigation through the integration of all such information
The selection of required information would be conducted by means of additional presentation layers on ECDIS system which would represent different types of navigational data in real time
By gathering all available information in the ship’s environment, available from external and internal sources, integrating them into database and new types of useful data, analysis and presentation of these data as new useful information opens the possibility for creation of decision support systems based on e-navigation concept
Summary
We will concentrate not as much on maritime communications because ECDIS is the only system, as a central system for presentation of different information that can meet user needs and requirements for e-navigation through the integration of all such information. The selection of required information would be conducted by means of additional presentation layers on ECDIS system which would represent different types of navigational data in real time.
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