Understanding GMDSS,9780340610428

Understanding GMDSS

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ISBN13: 9780340610428
ISBN10: 0340610425
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2012-09-10
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary

This is the first book to cover the Global Marine Distress and Safety System (GDMSS) in a comprehensive and readable way. GDMSS is now being developed to provide a new global communications and locating network to alert search and rescue services, and all students of navigation or maritime technology, and practising navigation officers, will need to be trained in its use. this accessible reference textbook provides students and new radio operators with all the knowledge necessary for a complete understanding of GMDSS and its related systems.

Table of Contents

The Global Marine Distress and Safety System
The GMDSS radionet
Equipment maintenance requirements
GMDSS personnel qualifications
GMDSS Satellite Communications
Satellite orbital parameters and outline satellite communication principles
The Inmarsat organistaion
The Inmarsat-A system
The Inmarsat-B system
The Inmarsat-C system
The Inmarsat-M system
Satellite mobile frequency bands
The future
Terrestrial Communications
Signal propagation and the radio spectrum
Antenna systems
Radiocommunications systems
The future
Glossary of terms and abbreviations
Appendices - Examination syllabus guidelines for the GMDSS GOC
The decibal (ab)
Producers of ship terminals
Satellite telephone country codes
Satellite telephone services
Index
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