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

fYear

2013

fDate

24-26 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Science and Applications (ICISA), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Suwon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0602-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICISA.2013.6579502

Filename

6579502