Review article
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE DESCRIPTIONS AND VALUES OF GEOGRAPHIC, OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS IN PILOTS OF THE EASTERN ADRIATIC COAST (PUBLISHED BY VARIOUS OFFICIAL PUBLISHERS)
Željko Bradarić
Abstract
Together with the nautical chart a pilot is a navigational tool which the navigator uses in solving a navigational task. The pilot contains complex data obtained during long multidisciplinary researches in the sea. A special section of the pilot contains descriptions of geographic, oceanographic and weather data for the area covered by the pilot. The accuracy of the data and their optimal presentation in the pilot has a great significance for the safety of navigation. The approach to processing the data important for navigation and the description of an aquatorium may be various. Therefore the contents of the pilots in various countries may be different in some sections. In this paper the authors analysed, by means of method of comparison, the exactness of the description of data published in existing official national and foreign pilots, and differences in contents and values of certain parameters for the same areas are presented. Possible solutions have been presented which may reduce to minimum the observed differences and discrepancies in descriptions of certain parameters used by various publishers of official maritime publications.
Keywords
navigational handbook; pilot; description and reliability of data
Hrčak ID:
4008
URI
Publication date:
29.6.2006.
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