Patent ID: 8612129
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: B63B,G08G

Abstract:
1. A marine threat monitoring method for a target marine structure, comprising: identifying with a computer system one or more marine obstacles in a vicinity of the target marine structure as the target marine structure conducts set operations in a body of water; monitoring with the computer system position of the one or more identified marine obstacles over time relative to the target marine structure; predicting with the computer system a threat to the target marine structure based on the monitored position of the one or more identified marine obstacles; determining with the computer system an attribute of the one or more marine obstacles of the threat; comparing with the computer system the determined attribute to a structural limitation of the target marine structure, the structural limitation comprising a threshold of an impact sustainable by the target marine structure from the one or more marine obstacles, a time interval required to cease the set operations of the target marine structure, or a time interval required to move the target marine structure from the threat of the one or more marine obstacles; and planning with the computer system a response to the predicted threat to the target marine structure by the one or more identified marine obstacles based on the comparison.