OCTOPUS-FORECAST

OCTOPUS-FORECAST is used to forecast the ship performance along the planned voyage and to increase the schedule accuracy and the safety of the voyage. OCTOPUS-FORECAST can calculate the optimal route based on the weather forecasts. The expected ship motions, performance, and fuel consumption in the upcoming weather can be evaluated. OCTOPUS- FORECAST has been developed in co-operation with our solution partner Meteo Consult, the world's largest provider of weather forecast data, and works optimally in combination with the onboard weather routing software SPOS. OCTOPUS- FORECAST can be operated on a stand-alone weather routing station or integrated in the ship's navigation network. The user can influence the computed optimum route by setting criteria for fuel consumption, ship motions, slamming, Motion Sickness Index (MSI), or hull loads.


Dec 2004 : Meteo Consult's SPOS in Motion(s) "A close cooperation between Meteo Consult and AMARCON resulted in an integrated application of vessel response information in the SPOS weather and voyage planning software." "Since the whole integration is brought into the SPOS interface, the use of the system is extremely simple." "The AMARCON system called OCTOPUS (as implemented in SRA of Germanischer Lloyd) is used for predicting vessel motions, accelerations, and forces in real time. The combination with SPOS enables the user to calculate optimum tracks with forecasted weather and predicted vessel motions. The user can predefine a combination of up to 6 maximum motion criteria and the SPOS system will automatically advice tracks avoiding areas where those criteria are to be exceeded."

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