SUPPORTING MARITIME SAFETY

Andrew McGovern

Decision MakingEVERYONE HAS TO MAKE DECISIONS:

•Those decisions will be based on the information at hand•More, high quality, information results in better decisions

INFORMATION NEEDEDINCLUDES

•METEORLOGICAL • Wind• Visibility• Air Pressure

•CURRENT• Speed & direction through out

the water column •WATER LEVEL• Actual & predicted

•BATHYMETRY• In all navigationally significant

areas

The Difference that Good Information Makes

AFTER THE FACTMANY OF THE SAME TOOLS ARE USED TO RESPOND TO SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) AND OIL SPILLS •Environmental chemistry, oil slick tracking, pollutant transport modeling, natural resources at risk analysis, information management, and assessment of environmental trade-offs related to alternative spill countermeasures and cleanup techniques.•USCG uses software (SAR OPS) that uses information from whatever is the best and most reliable source (NOAA, Navy, etc.) to best track/model people and vessel trajectories on the surface of the water. Sector NY also validates those findings using NYHOPS (Stevens Institute of Technology)

THOUGHTS FOR THE FUTURE

• Develop an inventory of sensors/info streams– Can not integrate until we know what we have– Reduce redundant systems– Sensors/information used by multiple users

for multiple purposes