Nama dan Singkatan Dalam Navigasi Perkapalan dan Pelayaran :

AIS


Automatic Identification System


AMVER


Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue System: a worldwide voluntary system operated exclusively to support SAR and to make information available to all RCCs


ARCS


Admiralty Raster Chart Service: electronic raster charts produced by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office


ARPA


Automatic Radar Plotting Aid


ASF


Additional Secondary Factor: corrections to be applied when plotting Loran C positions on charts to take into account variations in the conductivity of the earth’s surface over which the signals pass


ATA


Automatic Tracking Aid: electronic plotting device or radars


CES


Coast Earth Station: maritime name for an INMARSAT shore-based station linking ship earth tations with terrestrial communication networks


COLREGS


Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, as amended


COSPAS-SARSAT


A satellite system designed to detect distress beacons transmitting on the frequency 406 MHz


DATUM


A datum is a reference system for specifying positions on the earth’s surface. Each datum is associated with a particular reference spheroid that can be different in size, orientation and relative position from the spheroids associated with other horizontal datums. Positions referred to different datums can differ by several hundred metres


DGPS


Differential Global Positioning System (see GNSS)


DOC


Document of Compliance issued to the ship operator under the ISM Code


DP


Dynamic Positioning: the ability of a ship to maintain automatically a pre-set position and heading by using her own propellers and thrusters


DPO


Dynamic Positioning Operator, usually a bridge watchkeeper


DSC


Digital Selective Calling: a technique using digital codes which enable a radio station to establish contact with, and transfer information to, another station or group of stations


EBL


Electronic Bearing Line: a radar feature


ECDIS


Electronic Chart Display and Information System


ECS


Electronic Chart System


EGC


Enhanced Group Call: part of the INMARSAT system that complements the NAVTEX system to supply SafetyNET and similar information broadcast services


ENC


Electronic Navigational Chart


EP


Estimated Position


EPA


Electronic Plotting Aid: electronic plotting device for radars


EPIRB


Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon: a device that transmits distress alerting signals usually via satellites


FPSO/FGSO


Floating Production, Storage and Offloading/Floating Gas Storage Offloading ship/vessel or unit: an oil/gas production facility


GLONASS


Global Navigation Satellite System (see GNSS)


GMDSS


Global Maritime Distress and Safety System: a global communications service based upon automated systems, both satellite and terrestrial, to provide distress alerting and promulgation of maritime safety information for mariners


GNSS


Global Navigation Satellite System: a worldwide position and time determination system that includes one or more satellite constellations and receivers


GOC


General Operator’s Certificate: a GMDSS radio operator’s certificate for use on ships trading beyond GMDSS Sea Area A1. This is now usually incorporated into the STCW qualifications of deck officers at the operational level.


GPS


Global Positioning System (see GNSS)


HF


High Frequency


HPR


Hydroacoustic Position Reference: a PRS often used in conjunction with DP, configured with sea-floor acoustic transponders


IAMSAR


International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Manual: published in three volumes jointly by ICAO and IMO


IBS


Integrated Bridge System


ICAO


International Civil Aviation Organization: Montreal based United Nations intergovernmental body


IHO


International Hydrographic Organization: Monaco based intergovernmental body


ILO


International Labour Organization: Geneva based United Nations intergovernmental body, responsible for seafarers’ employment standards


IMO


International Maritime Organization: London based United Nations intergovernmental body, responsible for the safety of life at sea, including navigational rules, and the protection of the marine environment


NAVTEX


Telegraphy system for broadcasting marine weather forecasts, navigational warnings, SAR alerts and other warnings and urgent information to ships in coastal waters (up to 400 nautical miles) under the WWNWS


NBDP


Narrow-Band Direct Printing telegraphy used for radiotelex and NAVTEX


NOAA


National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: United States producer of electronic raster charts


OOW


Officer of the Watch


PRS


Position Reference System: a navigational sensor (e.g. DGPS) used in conjunction with a DP system


RCC


Rescue Co-ordination Centre: a unit responsible for promoting the efficient organisation of SAR services and for co-ordinating the conduct of SAR operations within a SAR region


RCDS


Raster Chart Display System


RENC


Regional Electronic Navigational Chart Co-ordinating Centre: supplier of official chart data


RNC


Raster Navigational Chart


ROC


Restricted Operator’s Certificate: a GMDSS radio operator’s certificate for use on ships trading only in GMDSS Sea Area A1 R/T Radio Telephony S-57 Edition 3 IHO’s latest transfer standard for digital hydrographic data for use with ECDIS


SafetyNET


INMARSAT service for promulgating MSI to ships on the high seas; it includes shore-to-ship relays of distress alerts and communications for SAR co-ordination


SAR


Search and Rescue/International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue, 1979, as amended


SART


Search and Rescue Transponder: a portable radar transponder for use in survival craft, which transmits homing signals in the 9 GHz band


SENC


System Electronic Navigational Chart: a database that comprises ENC data, ENC updates and other data added by the mariner that is accessed by, and displayed on, the ECDIS


SES


Ship Earth Station: shipborne satellite communication station, used for exchanging messages with shore subscribers and ships


SMCP


Standard Marine Communication Phrases: an updated version of SMNV that includes phrases that have been developed to cover the most important safety-related fields of verbal communications


SMNV


Standard Marine Navigational Vocabulary: adopted by IMO for communications on board ship as well as for those between ship and shore


SMPEP


Shipboard Marine Pollution Emergency Plan


SMS


Safety Management System under the ISM Code


SOLAS


International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended


SOPEP


Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan


STCW


International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978, as amended STCW Code Seafarers’ Training, Certification and Watchkeeping Code, appended to the STCW Convention


S-VDR


Simplified Voyage Data Recorder


TMC


Transmitting Magnetic Compass


UMS


Unmanned Machinery Space


VDR


Voyage Data Recorder


VRM


Variable Range Marker: a radar feature


VTS


Vessel Traffic Services


WEND


World Electronic Navigational Chart Database


WGS84


World Geodetic System 1984 datum


WMO


World Meteorological Organization: Geneva based United Nations intergovernmental body


WWNWS


World-Wide Navigational Warning Service: established by IMO in collaboration with IHO for the dissemination of navigational warnings to ships


WWRNS


World-Wide Radio Navigation System: terrestrial and satellite radio-navigation systems that have been accepted by IMO as capable of providing adequate position information to an unlimited number of ships


XTE


Cross Track Error