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Potential and benefits of AIS to Ships and Maritime Administrations

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The Universal Automatic Identification System (AIS) provides a huge variety of potential applications and services which exceed the well known ship-to-ship data exchange. The purpose of this paper is to address the most important AIS services, in particular the AIS position report and the AIS safety-related and binary messages (“AIS telegrams”). The main issue is the impact of this new technology on the on-board use of AIS in collision avoidance (and its limitations) as well as the impact on shore-based services such as Vessel Traffic Service (VTS), port management and the need of an effective AIS network.

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  1. ISSUS University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, Germany

    Bernhard Berking

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Berking, B. Potential and benefits of AIS to Ships and Maritime Administrations. WMU J Marit Affairs 2, 61–78 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03195034

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