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Enhancing Ais To Improve Whale-Ship Collision Avoidance And Maritime Security, Philip A. Mcgillivary, Kurt Schwehr, Kevin Fall
Enhancing Ais To Improve Whale-Ship Collision Avoidance And Maritime Security, Philip A. Mcgillivary, Kurt Schwehr, Kevin Fall
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
Whale-ship strikes are of growing worldwide concern due to the steady growth of commercial shipping. Improving the current situation involves the creation of a communication capability allowing whale position information to be estimated and exchanged among vessels and other observation assets. An early example of such a system has been implemented for the shipping lane approaches to the harbor of Boston, Massachusetts where ship traffic transits areas of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary frequently used by whales. It uses the Automated Identification Systems (AIS) technology, currently required for larger vessels but becoming more common in all classes of vessels. …
Minimizing Vessel Strikes To Endangered Whales: A Crash Course In Conservation Science And Policy, David N. Wiley, Moira W. Brown
Minimizing Vessel Strikes To Endangered Whales: A Crash Course In Conservation Science And Policy, David N. Wiley, Moira W. Brown
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
The North Atlantic right whale is one of the most endangered of all large whales: about 350-400 individuals remain. Species recovery is, in part, contingent on reducing vessel-strike mortality. Our science-based conservation program resulted in three efforts specifically designed to minimize the risk of lethal vessel-strikes of endangered baleen whales without compromising vessel navigation and safety. In Atlantic Canada, the Bay of Fundy Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) was relocated to reduce the risk of lethal vessel strikes by 90% where the original outbound lane of the TSS intersected the Right Whale Conservation Area, and an Area To Be Avoided (ATBA) …
Environmental Response Management Application (Erma) - Web-Based Gis Data Display And Management System For Oil Spill Planning And Environmental Response, Michele Jacobi, Rob Braswell, Amy A. Merten, Nancy E. Kinner, Kurt Schwehr
Environmental Response Management Application (Erma) - Web-Based Gis Data Display And Management System For Oil Spill Planning And Environmental Response, Michele Jacobi, Rob Braswell, Amy A. Merten, Nancy E. Kinner, Kurt Schwehr
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration (ORR) in a partnership with the University of New Hampshire Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC), is leading an effort to develop an Open Source GIS system that is accessible to both the command post and to assets in the field during a response. The ERMA (Environmental Response Management Application) system is an integrated data management platform that uses MapServer and Open Layers software to combine real-time and static regional geospatial data sets. Data available include: weather and forecasts, ESI maps, IOOS buoys, modeled spill trajectories, real-time tracks of vessels, response plans, navigational charts, bathymetry, …
Right Whale Ais Project (Rap): Acoustic Detections In The Boston Approaches, Kurt Schwehr, Lee Alexander
Right Whale Ais Project (Rap): Acoustic Detections In The Boston Approaches, Kurt Schwehr, Lee Alexander
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
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