Research On A Mobile Electronic Chart Platform For Android

With the promotion and development of the ECDIS, users make new demands for the functions and application forms of the ECDIS. On one hand, users need to simplify the installation, the maintenance, the electronic chart data and other data update procedure of ECDIS, and on the other hand, users also have new demands of the mobility, portability and flexibility to the system function of piloting and monitoring. ECDIS based on PC can hardly meet these demands. The research on A mobile electronic chart platform for Android of this study is a platform that can be installed and operated on mobile terminals include smart phone and tablet PC. By using communication networks and portability of the mobile terminal, this mobile electronic chart platform can flexibly meet the needs of ship navigation, piloting, vessel monitoring, port management, VTS management, maritime management, channel management, emergency search and rescue, ship agency, freight forwarding and crew training to ECDIS in "The post-PC era".By using the features of smart phone and tablet PC, this study base on Android system. After deep research on the function module, the framework, the user interactions, the device interface, the relevant principles and norms of the Electronic Chart platform, this study developed a prototype system of mobile electronic chart platform.To sum up, this study did following works:1. Mobile Electronic Chart Platform DesignThrough structured and system requirements analysis of ship navigation and vessel monitoring applications, this study designed system framework and software architecture of the mobile electronic chart platform based on Android system, and detailed designed each function module. This study did research on the organization, the reading, the resolving, the display and the update mode of the electronic chart data on the platform. This study also did research on the external device interface and other application information services based on mobile network.2. Mobile Electronic Chart Platform DevelopmentAccording to the features of the mobile terminal and the touch screen, this study designed mobile electronic chart UI and chart application operations. This study use Eclipse+ADT (Android Development Tools) for system development and completed each system function of the platform by using interface functions of Android official development kit, and finally developed a prototype system, of mobile electronic chart platform based on Android.