DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE REGARDING HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL AND NAVIGATIONAL CONDITIONS DURING SAILING IN THEARCTIC REGION
Over view of international regulations which set requirement stop as sage planning on board have revealed in creasing pressure on navigating officers. This situation requires development to automatized aids for seeHng optimal and safe routes reflect tough sailing conditions. Factors contributing to the ship’s speed during navigation in Arctic waters were highlighted. Method of discretization of the sailing area was developed. The task ofproviding set of data of the sailing area in the Arctic was solved basing on the analysis of ice charts, which are performed by means of Universal polar stereo graphic coordinate system (UPS). The use of this data sets should allow to apply optimization algorithm, which sets the target to determine the optimal (in terms of time) route in ice conditions. Additionally, the use of this method would ensure that at any leg of the voyage the safe maimal speed of the ship is applied. The implementation of this method looks as a very promising path for the reducing human factor impact in safety of navigation. In addition, this information management method may be used in the systems providing operating of unmanned vessels.