Maritime and fisheries
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Maritime and fisheries
One of the important areas of GNSS applications are maritime and fishing related activities, especially for regulation and mandatory monitoring.
Open ocean and inland waterways are the most widely used mode for transporting goods world-wide. The efficiency, safety and optimisation of
marine transportation are key issues.
Increased accuracy and integrity, certified services and high availability brought by GALILEO will be applied to leisure boats, commercial vessels
and all ships falling under the Safety Of Life At Sea (SOLAS) convention in every phase of marine navigation, i.e. ocean, coastal, port approach
and harbour manoeuvres, under all weather conditions. For marine navigation regulated by the International Maritime Organisation,
GALILEO will be an additional means of implementing the regulations on Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) and vessel traffic management
systems to increase navigation safety and collision prevention (see Figure 1).
The GALILEO system also will contribute to the international search and rescue service, enhancing the world-wide performance of the current
COSPAS-SARSAT system. All maritime commercial activities are starting to use satellite navigation. In fishing, it helps locate traps and nets.
Fleet management, cargo monitoring, and delivery and loading schedules are optimised. Even the location of shipping containers can be facilitated,
and satellite navigation could be used for automatic piloting of barges. Within harbours, a system for information services tailored to each
ship’s location is being considered. In inland waterways, accuracy and integrity of navigation data are essential to automate accurate manoeuvres
in narrow rivers and canals.
In principle almost all aspects related to integrity and timing stamp, provided by GALILEO, can be regulated in order to transform technology
feature into legal mandatory applications that can be law-enforced in court. [1],[2]
References
[1] G.Dippel-Hens (GALILEAN working group report)
"GNSS business issues".
[2] European Satellite Services Provider
"EGNOS".
