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USE OF ECDIS AND

TRAINING CAPABILITY
FOR ICE OPERATIONS

Lars Littke
Product manager Digital services
Transas Marine International AB

ECDIS implementation plan

2012-2018

Paperless or Less paper ?

July 2009

July 2010

2012

July 2011

July 2012

New Passenger Ships

Implementation support
ISM procedure change
Installation
Training

New Tankers

New Cargo ships

New Cargo ships

Existing Passenger ships

Existing Tankers

Existing Cargo

Existing Cargo

July 2013

July 2014

July 2015

July 2016

2018

July 2017

July 2018

>500gt

>3000gt

>10000gt

>3000gt

>500gt

>3000gt

>50000gt

>20000gt
>20000gt

Existing Cargo
>10000gt

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What drives our development

Rules and regulations New standards

Commercial requirements
Market development
User needs
Wish list Good ideas
One system to fit all?
Can we have it yesterday?

ECDIS benefits

This is much aboute ECD

IS

Information System
and
Information Supply

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Planning application
background

Function clutter in ECDIS

User needs
Authority requirements
Administrative support
- Procedures / Routines
- Document support
ONE SYSTEM FOR ALL

For Ship & Shore

to paperless navigation
Navi-Planner 4000 is a set of databases, applications and services for voyage
planning. Back of the bridge and ashore as a management tool.
Port to port full Voyage Plan
AtoBviaC auto routing
Under Keel Clearance
Route checking
Reference point selection
Chart list
Detailed voyage plan reports
Route export/import

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Weather management
Weather forecast ordering
Various weather data
visualization (pressure,
wind, wave heights, swell)
Play ahead functionality with
the weather forecasts, route
and route schedule
consideration
Route optimization by
weather conditions

Ice-chart information in ECDIS

2008 Transas started cooperation
with AARI for development of ICEchart functionality in Navi-Sailor
4000 ECDIS
Functionallity based on Existing
standards and customer
specification
S-57 and Shape
p vector and GeoTiff
raster charts data
Open data supply principal

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ECDIS Ice data management

Main info panel consists of 4 pages
Actual Ice Charts in S-57 format
Forecast Ice Charts in S-57 format
Raster Satellite Images
Recommended
S-57
R
d d routes
t iin S
57 fformatt

Presentation in NS4000 ECDIS

Ice-charts are displayed on ECDIS in conformity with

Russian and International display regulations

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Ice-charts in NS4000 ECDIS

Transas ECDIS allows simultaneous

display of up to 6 different semitransparent layers with individual
transparency setting for each layer

Provides the navigator with a

combined navigational and
meteorological information picture

ICE CHARTS IN NS4000 ECDIS

ECDIS ICE DATA

MANAGEMENT
Adjustable transparency for all ice
data layers
Recommended route in Ice chart
Support of national and international
(ice eggs) symbols
Separate representation of
concentration, deformation and
pressure layers
l
Representation of Raster Images from
satellites (Modis, NOAA, RadSat)
Animation for Forecast Ice data

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Tasks to complete
Overall route planning for navigation in ice
covered waterways
Defining the ice edge
edge, ice fields
Simplifying ice situation assessment for an
operator
On request, AARI/MOs can provide the
information on recommended routes in icecovered waterways,
y , based on basic route
information from a ship

ICE-charts Order and Delivery

Orders and delivery of ICE-charts are managed by customers
them selfs from preferred MO / Distributor
Chart installation in to ECDIS with Transas Chart Assistant application

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The constant need of access

to Information and Data

Continues supply of data to vessels for navigation and

planning
Charts, Chart corrections,
ICE-charts, Weather,
Nav-warnings in real-time
from supplier

The problem

LED-time for supply of Charts and

data to vessel on fixed media to long
E-mail supply of data un-practical and
transfer of data by USB-stick - un-safe
Service and support needs on ECDIS
and Radar are 70-80% SW related
Access to service engineer distant,
limited and potentially expensive

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The solution
On-line SATCOM connection;
Network connection between ECDIS/Radar
and ships network and communication
system
Solution for protection of core NAV-system
with HW protection unit
System for remote online service and
support.
Solution must have Type approval

Connection

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On-line SAT connection

additional benefits
Remote service and support for NAV-system and
software
Remote installation and service of
Navigation and Radar systems
Monitoring system
performance on-line
Proactive service by collecting
diagnostics information
Remote maintenance

ICENAVIGATIONTRAINING
CAPABUILITIES

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Sailing in ice conditions

The Ice Navigation module developed jointly with the Arctic

and Antarctic Research Institute allows training of the crew
procedures used when:
Sailing in broken ice;
Sailing along the solid ice edge,
bumping against the edge;
Sailing in open pack ice, in
ice holes and in patches of ice-free
ice free
water;
Mooring to Single Point Mooring (SPM);

Sailing in ice conditions

Following icebreaker - training in

watch service procedures for
sailing in convoy, maintaining
communication between own
ship, icebreaker and other ships
in convoy
Proceeding along the channel in
a convoy;
Radar information while sailing
in ice conditions;
Using ice chart in ECDIS.

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ICECONDITIONSCREATING

ICE CONDITIONS CREATION

Capability to set a channel

in an ice field

Thisoptimisesexercise
creationandallowsinstructor
toproducemore
comprehensiveandrealistic
scenario.
Searchanduseyoungice
fairwaytocrosssolidicefield

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ICE CONDITIONS CREATION

Capabilitytosethummocks
(visual+modeleffects)

A new training objective given: ways to avoid collision with

hummocks

ICE CONDITIONS CREATION

ThemaximumvalueoftheCrossPiece
parameterhasbeenincreasedto70metres

Channel from two ice breakers in an ice field is wide enough for modern crude
oil tankers

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MODELLING

MODELING IMPROVEMENT
Icefieldcanmove:
dependingonweatherconditions(current)
alongaroute
Along a set course and at set speed
Alongasetcourseandatsetspeed

Acomprehensiveicenavigationmodel
provideshighdegreeoftrainingrealism

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MODELING IMPROVEMENT

Moving ice
fields can
collide with
each other,
strand and
bump into
scene objects

Thisprovidesmorerealisticiceandsceneobjectsinteractioninthesimulator

MODELING IMPROVEMENT

A ship which
has entered a
drifting ice floe
is drawn into
drifting together
with it

Thisprovidesmorerealisticiceandshipmodelsinteractioninthesimulator

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MODELING IMPROVEMENT

Stoppinginice is
morerealistic:
inthickice(1.62
metres)shipsnow
getstuckina
realisticway

A new ice navigation training objective is available: ramming

MODELING IMPROVEMENT
Instructorcan:
increase \weaken
ice resistance

adjust
increase/decrease of
ship turning
qualities in solid ice

adjust increase/decrease of
longitudinal and lateral
components of ship motion
in ice

Trainercanadjusticerepulsionparametersforanyshipmodelinsimulator

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MODELING IMPROVEMENT
Rudder jamming during astern motion

Criticaliceedgeandshipmodelsrudderpropellerinteractionissimulated

MODEL LIBRARY

Based on data obtained in the ice model tank, the following ship models
have been additionally adapted to the ice functionality:

Coastaltanker1Fullload

Coastaltanker1Ballast

IcebreakingTug

Oiltanker4Ballast

VLCC1Fullload

VLCC1Ballast

Oiltanker4Fullload

Thesimulatorincludesrealisticbehaviouroftheseshipmodelsiniceconditions

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VISUALPRESENTATION
VISUAL
PRESENTATION

VISUAL PRESENTATION IMPROVEMENT

Itfacilitatessearchofyoungicefairway

Visual presentation of
channel freezing has been
changed: a texture
permanently increasing the
t
transparency
h
has been
b
replaced with an occluding
surface.
Moreover, ice edge
presentation has been
significantly improved.

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Thankyou!
www.transasmarine.com

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