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Glossary




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Designed by Rebecca Shalfield

Glossary (3)

  • SAR - Search And Rescue
  • ShipPlotter - A powerful and cost-effective graphical AIS charting application for PC and Windows.
  • SOG - Speed Over Ground
  • SOLAS - Safety Of Life At Sea
  • SOTDMA - Self-Organising Time Division Multiple-Access
  • TCPA - Time to Closest Point of Approach
  • TDMA - Time Division Multiple-Access
  • UAIS - Universal Automatic Identification System or Universal Automatic Identification of Shipping
  • USCG - United States Coast Guard
  • UTC - Universal Time Co-ordinated
  • VDR - Voyage Data Recorder
  • VHF - Very High Frequency
  • VLCC - Very Large Crude Carrier
  • VTS - Vessel Tracking System or Vessel Tracking Services
  • WAAS - Wide Area Augmentation System
  • WGS84 - World Geodetic System 1984
  • XTE - Cross Track Error

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