Obtaining latitude and longitude as a double value

[hvalola]

hi
I want to obtain ships latitude and longitude as a double value like(6.143275) to store separately. I tried sending gpsg_lat to toSMDD() from AIS_Decoder:ecode( const wxString& str ) but it did not provide the solution I need (I want to get each ais messages Lat and Lon )dose OpenCPN provide solution to that
please help

[bcn]

If you don't the data in real time you might use the VDR plug-in and then process the AIS data.
In the other case this would have to be some plug-in type of software.
In any of this cases, working with the AIS data you will have to look for the dynamic and the static data sets.

Can you tell us more about your idea/application?

bcn

[seandepagnier]

Are you writing a plugin?

If so I think WANTS_NMEA_EVENTS is what you want.

Then you will get SetPositionFix and SetPositionFixEx virtual functions called which both contain lat and lon as double.

[nohal]

hvalola...
To be honest, it is not very clear what you are trying to do, may we have a look at your code?

Pavel

[hvalola]

Hi
my intention is to identify whether radar track target is a ship or not.
my method is to get radar data lat and lon and compare with ais data lat and lon to id it and plot it in a diffrent color on the opencpn window.
I store radar data on a mysql database and I need the lat and lon to compare with it

[seandepagnier]

Why would you want to try to align ais to radar data?

The only reason I can think of would be to calibrate the radar to make it more accurate, or to train some sort of artificial intelligence to learn what ships look like so if ais is not working you will recognize it as a ship using radar alone. Is this the idea? If so please explain your method.

[Littlechay]

Originally Posted by boat_alexandra

Why would you want to try to align ais to radar data?

The only reason I can think of would be to calibrate the radar to make it more accurate, or to train some sort of artificial intelligence to learn what ships look like so if ais is not working you will recognize it as a ship using radar alone. Is this the idea? If so please explain your method.

Errrr boat - the OP said he wanted to check whether a radar target was a ship or not, he didn't say anything about aligning; or did I miss that.

Seems like a useful thing to me, could be non-ais enabled ships/boats a container, an ice-berg (although they have a nasty habit of being radar stealthy!) or something else worth keeping a very close eye. An app like that could be very useful in busy shipping helping you filter what to watch on AIS and what you have to start a radar plot for.

[fgd3]

Originally Posted by Littlechay

Errrr boat - the OP said he wanted to check whether a radar target was a ship or not, he didn't say anything about aligning; or did I miss that.

Seems like a useful thing to me, could be non-ais enabled ships/boats a container, an ice-berg (although they have a nasty habit of being radar stealthy!) or something else worth keeping a very close eye. An app like that could be very useful in busy shipping helping you filter what to watch on AIS and what you have to start a radar plot for.

I didn't know icebergs had AIS transponders.

Doesn't AIS already tell you if the object is a ship?

Fabbian

[Littlechay]

Originally Posted by fgd3

I didn't know icebergs had AIS transponders.

Doesn't AIS already tell you if the object is a ship?

Fabbian

Presumably Fabbian you are a troll... but here goes

Radar doesn't tell you if the object is a ship, the OP wants to check which targets are ships as confirmed by AIS

As for you iceberg comment..... they, usually (although some have), don't have transponders do this app would help ID a potential target as a berg

[nohal]

hvalola...
The explanation that you want to implement (M)ARPA is nice, butw e still want to see your code. As latitudes and longitudes are represented as doubles everywhere but while displayed, I'm really curious what your problem could be.

Pavel

[hvalola]

hi
Since small fishing boats do not have AIS radar is used to track them
but some times radar tracks AIS ships to remove that fuse AIS data with radar data to identify them Fuse data plot in different color radar target in different color and AIS target as usual.

It needs to be real time compare AIS data with radar data
initially I try to get difference of lat and lon then use Speed course of ships to fuse the data.to fuse data real time i tried to get gpsg_lat and gpsg_lon
but it has 1.6318147791597e-311 ,-1.9600458270010524e277 like values
I get vales using aisevent function how to get proper lat lon vales

[bcn]

Hvalola,

you are aware of the timing/refresh of AIS signals, aren't you?Ais Reporting Intervals

Slow targets, as Class A units < 3kn (*) or Class B units < 2kn, will update position only in 3min intervals.
(*) see document above
Static data is updated every 6min.

Transponder are alternating between the two AIS frequencies, so in case using a receiver that is listening only on one single channel you will have to double all these times.

Hubert

[nohal]

hvalola...
Let aside the probable limited usability of your approach Hubert pointed out. Both the numbers you posted are doubles, one very small, one very big and both represented in exponential notation to save those 300 zeroes each would contain.
My thought is that they are not actually initialized and containing any value at the moment you look at them, but it is of course impossible to confirm without looking at your code.
But just from you saying you use gpsg_lat/lon inside of AIS_Decoder I can say you probably could have chosen more wisely...

Pavel