Geo-M-306-100 Nautical Science & Electronic Chart Display and Information System

Course offering details

Instructors: Heinz Werner Kurth; Marcus Wöster

Event type: Lecture, Exercise

Org-unit: Geomatik / Geodäsie und Geoinformatik

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Hours per week: 2

Location: Hamburg

Language of instruction: Englisch

Min. | Max. participants: - | 50

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Beschreibung:
Nautical Science: Positioning at sea, signs, Stream navigation, tides. Contents and use of the most important nautical publications: nautical charts, nautical handbook, light fires, notices to mariners, nautical radio warnings. Orientation at sea and near coast using light and direction fires as well as terrestrial lines-of-position. Working with nautical charts, elaborating tasks related to charts. Navigation on piloting and simulation system. Route following. Law of traffic. Radar. Seamanship. Manoeuvr.Traffic Control Systems: Fund. of technical electronic navigation. Technical aids. Course sensors, Sensors for water depth. Integrated Navigation : Mathematical fundamentals. Sequential parameter estimation: definitions, linear and non-linear observation equations. Dynamic systems: state variables, system equation, transition equation, time-update of state variables and related covariance matrix. Kalman filtering. Mathematical models for integrated navigation. Application examples.

Electronic Chart Display : An imaginary trip with ECDIS. On-board components of the electronic chart display. Differences between ECDIS, ECS, RCDS. Data: information and data, geo-reference, forms of display, raster and vector map, data structures, display of attribute information, realization of space relationship in vector charts. Hydrographic aspects: quality aspects of hydrographic data, necessity of continuous corrections, source-dependent quality aspects, quality assurance. Transition from data to chart functions. Integration with other navigation systems. Visit to the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany (BSH) and to firms.

Kontakt:
heinz-werner.kurth@jade-hs.de, marcus.woester@hcu-hamburg.de

Module:
Geo-M-MOD-306

Appointments
Date From To Room Instructors
1 Fri, 24. Nov. 2023 09:00 16:00 HVP-2.103 / Computer pool I Heinz Werner Kurth
2 Fri, 1. Dec. 2023 09:00 16:00 HVP-2.103 / Computer pool I Heinz Werner Kurth
3 Fri, 8. Dec. 2023 09:00 16:00 HVP-2.103 / Computer pool I Marcus Wöster
4 Sat, 9. Dec. 2023 09:00 16:00 HVP-1.017 / Lecture hall 150 Marcus Wöster
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Instructors
Heinz Werner Kurth
Marcus Wöster