Title :
An Implementation of NAVTEX Application on Android Mobile Device
Author :
Seojeong Lee ; Jae-Wook Lee
Author_Institution :
Div. of IT Eng., Korea Maritime Univ., Busan, South Korea
Abstract :
NAVTEX is one of useful tool for vessel safety navigation, which serves navigational warnings as well as urgent marine safety information to ships. However, it is not easy for novice to recognize where the warning happens. Recently, as the increase of smart mobile devices, there are many mobile device users in coastal area boarding on ship. In this paper, to help their safety navigation, we implement an application to display NAVTEX messages on Android mobile device. The title, summary and body of messages are displayed as text and the position of warning is shown on google map.
Keywords :
geographic information systems; marine safety; mobile computing; navigation; traffic information systems; Android mobile device; Google Map; NAVTEX application; NAVTEX message display; coastal area boarding; marine safety information; navigational warning; ship; smart mobile device; text display; vessel safety navigation; warning position; Google; Marine vehicles; Navigation; Receivers; Smart phones; Weather forecasting;
Conference_Titel :
Information Science and Applications (ICISA), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Suwon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0602-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICISA.2013.6579502
