Situation Awareness for Navigation Safety Control

Abstract

Situation awareness is the key element of the decision-making process. In navigation safety domain, monitoring, control, assessment of dangerous situations, support of operators of decision-making support system should be implemented in real time. In this paper we present the problem of situation awareness applied to navigation safety control. The paper considers existing models of situation awareness and ontology-based approach for maritime situation awareness. We introduce the situation concept using infons. Finally, we give an example how use these methods for design and creation of decision-support system for navigation safety control.

Keywords

• Situation Awareness
• Navigation Safety Control
• Safety at Sea
• Decision-Making Process
• Navigation Safety Domain
• Decision-Making Support System
• Navigation Safety Control
• Decision Support System (DSS)