SATELLITE-AIDED AUTOMATED COLLISION AVOIDANCE

The heart of the Satellite-Aided Collision Avoidance concept is a shipboard radar processor which compresses typical search radar video bandwith (7 MHz) into a teletype data rate, while retaining all essential target information. This radar processor has been implemented using shore-based interactive control and simple, inexpensive onboard digital logic; such that the need for an expensive shipboard computer is eliminated. The use of shore-based automated collision avoidance processing offers the potential advantages of reliability (distributed hardware), lower cost (time-shared computer), more effective threat evaluation and maneuver advisories (greater processing power) and improved safety (third-party expert overview). This paper presents a description of the concept and the experimental hardware and software which was evaluated at Kings Point, Long Island. Typical test results are also summarized.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the RTCM Assembly Meeting, St. Petersburg, Fla., April 1-3, 1974, with the Propeller Club of the United States. Vol. 1, Papers A-F, Maritime Electronics. Vol. 2, Papers G-N, Maritime Satellite Systems and Maritime Navigation. Vol. 3, Papers O-T, Maritime Telecommunication Trends. Vol. 4, Papers 0A-0I, Maritime Transponders and Collision Avoidance Systems. Sold as a complete 4 volume set for $15.00.
• Corporate Authors:

  Radio Technical Commission for Marine Services

  /Federal Communications Commission
  Washington, DC  United States  20554
• Authors:
  • Aldrich, G T
• Publication Date: 1974-4

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 1-16
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Radio Technical Commission for Marine Services
  • Volume: 4
  • Publisher: Radio Technical Commission for Marine Services

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash avoidance systems; Navigational satellites; Radar; Satellite navigation systems; Voyage management systems
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00057095
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Radio Technical Commission for Marine Services
• Report/Paper Numbers: Symposium Papers 0E
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 16 1974 12:00AM