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Rodrigues, J.M., Perera, L.P. and Guedes Soares, C. (2012), “Decision Support System for the Safe Operation of Fishing Vessels in Waves”, Maritime Engineering and Technology, Guedes Soares et al. (Eds),Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp.153-161

The paper describes an onboard decision support system that is being developed to support the operation of fishing vessels in waves, in particular for the decisions about ship handling in waves that have to do with vessel safety. The system includes a component of hardware that monitors several motion related parameters, and a component of data processing that uses those measurements and provides the ship master with the consequences of the different ship handling decisions. The paper describes the decision criteria and the approaches adopted for the calculation of the parameters that govern the master’s decisions. It describes the software that was developed to perform those calculations and to display in a user interface the advice to the master as well as the data acquisition and processing hardware that has been considered and tested to be installed on board.

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