Assessment of Prospects for Using Meteorological Satellite Data to Plan Vessel's Route in the Arctic Waters

摘要

The present work is modelling the satellite track to evaluate period of updating data from weather satellites in the selected position. The results help to formulate a concept that use of meteorological satellite data allow planning long range navigation in view of weather and ice conditions. Mean sounding data expectancy time analysis has been made for both an individual meteorological satellite and a group of meteorological satellites in this paper. Graphs of time intervals between consecutive observations of positions on the earth's surfaces by different groups of meteorological satellites at the Arctic latitudes are presented.