DATA MEASUREMENT AND DISPLAY FOR SHIP SAFETY
The author feels that it is time to take a long, hard look at how information is presented to the mariner. In this article, he first discusses typical ship's measurements, which he categorizes as pertaining to: navigation, the environment, vessel safety and comfort, machinery, cargo, and alarm conditions. He then discusses the need to present these measurements in a way that makes the information easily assimilable. He describes data networking, which enables measurements from all parts of the ship to be transmitted to a data center over a single cable or fiber optic link, as one possible method for rationalizing ship measurements and presenting data for the greatest benefit to the mariner and operator. An illustration of such a network is the system developed for the Lloyd's Register Voyage Data Recorder, the so-called "Black Box."
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Supplemental Notes:
- Journal article
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Authors:
- Cuffe, R W
- Publication Date: 1989-1
Media Info
- Pagination: 2 p.
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Serial:
- Safety at Sea International
- Issue Number: No.238
- Publisher: DMG World Media, Limited
- ISSN: 0142-0666
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Event data recorders; Fiber optics; Information display systems; Measurement; Networks; Ships
- Uncontrolled Terms: Data; Shipboard
- Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00657206
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Maritime Technical Information Facility
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jul 21 1994 12:00AM