Patent ID: 8706329
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G01C,G09B

Abstract:
1. A method of providing information to facilitate movement and operation of a vessel in a specific navigation environment, the method comprising: evaluating a plurality of characteristics related to the vessel relative to a plurality of conditions pertaining to the environment; based on the evaluating, defining one or more procedures for operating and navigating the vessel relative to the environment; describing one of the one or more operating and navigating procedures on one or more electronically generated navigational charts in which at least part of the environment is indicated to scale; using a processor to indicate the vessel as geographically referenced in the one or more electronically generated charts to a plurality of points in the environment, the points indicative of successive orientations and positions of the vessel relative to the environment in accordance with the described procedure, and wherein each of the points has associated therewith latitude and longitude position values, and wherein at least one of the points also provides a heading that the vessel is to follow when reaching the at least one point; wherein indicating the vessel comprises indicating the vessel by a series of graphics, drawn to scale in relation to the environment, on at least one of the one or more electronically generated charts; and wherein at least one textual instruction is provided on the at least one of the one or more navigation charts that provides additional explanation to a vessel operator as to how the vessel operator is to operate the vessel, at a specific one of the points, to thus orientate the vessel relative to structure located in the environment, before the vessel proceeds to a subsequent one of the points.