Limiting navigational and hydrographic factors when using 3D electronic navigation charts for ship handling during locks passage

A vessel is a qualitatively complex movable object, which motion can easily predicted when proceeding in unchanged navigation conditions. When navigation conditions become more difficult prediction of vessel requires the implementation of a complex set of actions to assess the position and parameters of the vessel’s motion relative to the limits and directions of the waterway. Lock approaches are characterized by significantly congested conditions and variable dimensions, tortuosity of the waterway, and spatial navigational hazards of complex form, to indicate which floating and land marks are used, organized in complex patterns. Thus, the complexity of navigational and hydrographic conditions has a limiting effect on the navigator’s ability to control the vessel. As navigation conditions become more complex, the navigator changes priorities in controlling the vessel motion, gradually shifting from controlling the course of the vessel, to controlling the vessel’s speed vector, and then to controlling the motion of the stem and stern. Navigating a vessel in difficult navigational and hydrographic conditions requires periodic clarification of navigational information, for which the navigator turns to the navigational chart, which is a visual source of navigational information. Notwithstanding use of modern aids to navigation to display navigation information, such as, for example, an electronic chart navigation and information system (ECDIS), approaches to locks usually present difficulties when taking into account navigation and hydrographic factors, due to the variability of navigation conditions and the static nature of the navigation equipment system waterway. The use of ECDIS, which enables displaying 3D electronic navigation charts (ENCs) to solve the navigator’s tasks enroute lock approaches, is new. The effectiveness of their use in the process of ship handling through locks, which is significant for the navigator, is performed by modern methods in this article.

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