NAVIGATION SUPPORT DEVICE, NAVIGATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND NAVIGATION SUPPORT PROGRAM

• Main Authors: SAWADA SHINICHI, YASUDA NOBUHITO, IWATA KEIICHI, SUZUKI JUNSUKE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 29.10.2015
• Subjects: EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; NAVIGATION; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; RELATED EQUIPMENT; SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; SURVEYING; TESTING; TRANSPORTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vessel navigation support device, a vessel navigation support method, and a vessel navigation support program capable of not only grasping a present position of a vessel, but also providing more useful information for safe navigation.SOLUTION: A navigation support device 20 includes a vessel information history acquisition part 24 for acquiring a history of vessel information indicating a route of a vessel that has passed through a predetermined sea area, and a typical route calculation part 25 for calculating a typical route in the sea area based on the history of vessel information acquired by the vessel information history acquisition part. It also includes a prediction route calculation part 26 for calculating a prediction route of a vessel present in the sea area based on the acquired vessel information and the typical route calculated by the typical route calculation part. 【課題】船舶の現在位置を把握できるだけでなく、安全な航行のためにより有用な情報を提供する、船舶の航行支援装置、航行支援方法、航行支援プログラムを提供する。【解決手段】航行支援装置２０が、所定の海域内を通過した船舶の航路を示す船舶情報の履歴を取得する船舶情報履歴取得部２４と、船舶情報履歴取得部が取得した船舶情報の履歴に基づいて、海域内の典型航路を算出する典型航路算出部２５と、を備える。また、取得した船舶情報と、典型航路算出部が算出した典型航路とに基づいて、海域内に存在する船舶の予測航路を算出する予測航路算出部２６を備える。【選択図】図１