With the increasing use of sensor technology, it has become common practice to use collected data to reduce uncertainty and ensure safety. This paper presents the concept of an information-based strategy for accident prevention that puts more weight on hazard detection and monitoring and makes use of data obtained. The information-based strategy can be considered as a new barrier for safety management. ...

Developing a Learning Analytics Dashboard (LAD) to evaluate maritime simulation training performance based on key performance indicators (KPIs) of maritime navigational competence can improve learning efficiency and effectiveness. Relevant data needs to be fed from simulation training logs and other sources, analysed using appropriate visualization and artificial intelligence approaches, and reported ...

Marine operations require careful early planning and thereafter detailed planning prior to project execution. The time from initiating an operation to finalization of the activity is typically several days. The activity can only be conducted during limited weather conditions. The planning prior to the offshore operations does, therefore, require accurate weather forecasting. The weather conditions ...

The mining industry operates in a complex and dynamic environment and faces many challenges that can negatively affect sustainable development goals. To avoid these effects, mining needs to adopt strategic decisions. Therefore, it requires effective decision-making processes for resource optimization, operational efficiency, and sustainability. Multicriteria decision-making methods (MCDM) have been ...

Mining is becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change (CC). The consequences of changing weather patterns, such as extreme weather events that can damage equipment, infrastructure, mining facilities, and operation interruption, are the source of the vulnerability. The new demand initiated by governments and international agreements put extra pressure on mining industries to ...

Climate changes forces us to make significant mitigation and adaptation measures. As temperature rises and the environmental conditions changes, a variety of challenges occur. Across the whole globe, harming consequences are already being experienced. The Arctic region is particularly vulnerable to changes in Earth’s climate system, especially because of the albedo effect, and the region is ...

Ship operators typically depend on the visual method for draft reading, which may lead to errors or approximations, and it further introduces draft survey calculation errors and can not provide continuous updates. Ensuring accurate real-time ship draft measurement becomes crucial for enhancing navigational safety, optimizing vessel performance, and achieving precise cargo and consumable measurements. ...

Sea-spray icing resulting from sea spray droplets accreting on exposed surfaces poses a significant safety concern for vessels and marine structures operating in cold climate regions. One of the key parameters determining the amount of ice accretion is the quantity of incoming sea spray, which eventually comes in contact with the structure in the presence of brine film freezing temperature. Hence, ...

Considering the distortion errors of projected coordinates and the switching property of vessel heading, coordinate conversion and switching correction methods are proposed to modify a kinematic motion model and the Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF). The coordinate conversion method utilizes the grid convergence from a Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection to correct the vessel heading. The ...