A position locating system to locate relative position information between a marine vessel and a trailer includes a laser scanner on a first object, that is one of a marine vessel and a trailer for the marine vessel, to reciprocatingly scan a predetermined range in a horizontal direction with laser light, a laser light receiver on a second object, that is the other of the marine vessel and the trailer, to receive laser light emitted from the laser scanner, and a position locator configured or programmed to locate relative position information between the marine vessel and the trailer based on light receiving timings when the laser light emitted from the laser scanner is received by the laser light receiver.

A marine-type communication device that reads data from a data bus, dynamically creates new data channels for a plurality of operational systems and performs a volatility assessment to determine when to save the data for transmission to a cloud network and when to transmit the data to the cloud network.

A marine-type communication device that reads data from a data bus, dynamically creates new data channels for a plurality of operational systems and performs a volatility assessment to determine when to save the data for transmission to a cloud network and when to transmit the data to the cloud network.

A method, system and product comprising: obtaining location-reporting signals of a vessel indicating that the vessel was located at a first geographical position prior to a shutdown event and at a second geographical position after the shutdown event; determining a distance between the first and second geographical positions; determining an estimated time to travel the distance based on the location-reporting signals; comparing the estimated time to the duration of the shutdown event, to determine whether the vessel had sufficient time to perform a dark activity that is associated with a maritime event; generating a potential travel path from the first geographical position to the second geographical position, wherein the potential travel path comprises the maritime event; obtaining images that correspond to the duration of the shutdown event and to the potential travel path; and verifying that the maritime event occurred based on an analysis of the images.

A method, system and product comprising: obtaining location-reporting signals of a vessel indicating that the vessel was located at a first geographical position prior to a shutdown event and at a second geographical position after the shutdown event; determining a distance between the first and second geographical positions; determining an estimated time to travel the distance based on the location-reporting signals; comparing the estimated time to the duration of the shutdown event, to determine whether the vessel had sufficient time to perform a dark activity that is associated with a maritime event; generating a potential travel path from the first geographical position to the second geographical position, wherein the potential travel path comprises the maritime event; obtaining images that correspond to the duration of the shutdown event and to the potential travel path; and verifying that the maritime event occurred based on an analysis of the images.

A method for culturing a bovine progenitor cell, comprising the step of: culturing a bovine progenitor cell in a serum-free medium for culturing a bovine progenitor cell, wherein said serum-free medium comprises an albumin; and a fibroblast growth factor (FGF).

A predicted course display device for a movable body includes an interface module to receive a planned route of the movable body, a position measurement module to detect a current position of the movable body, a geographical information selection module to determine geographic information of a region surrounding the movable body that is to be displayed on a display screen, a tidal current information reception module to receive tidal current information of the region surrounding the movable body, a course prediction module to predict a course of the movable body based on the tidal current information, and a course information generation module to generate display information for showing the planned route and the predicted course corresponding to a specific position on the display screen.

A predicted course display device for a movable body includes an interface module to receive a planned route of the movable body, a position measurement module to detect a current position of the movable body, a geographical information selection module to determine geographic information of a region surrounding the movable body that is to be displayed on a display screen, a tidal current information reception module to receive tidal current information of the region surrounding the movable body, a course prediction module to predict a course of the movable body based on the tidal current information, and a course information generation module to generate display information for showing the planned route and the predicted course corresponding to a specific position on the display screen.

A method for predicting heaving motion parameters of a semi-submersible offshore platform based on heaving acceleration includes: in heaving motion of a semi-submersible offshore platform, representing heaving acceleration of the semi-submersible offshore platform based on a linear potential flow theory; considering a noise influence of a heaving motion measurement marine environment, a low-frequency influence caused by a slow change of the environment and an influence caused by a baseline drift error of an acceleration sensor, introducing a noise term, a low-frequency change term and a baseline drift error term, and uniformly representing the noise term, the low-frequency change term and the baseline drift error term by a unified Prony sequence; and removing a drift term from uniformly represented heaving acceleration, establishing a relationship between the heaving acceleration and heaving motion parameters in terms of the remaining Prony sequence with the drift term being removed, and estimating the heaving motion parameters.

A method for predicting heaving motion parameters of a semi-submersible offshore platform based on heaving acceleration includes: in heaving motion of a semi-submersible offshore platform, representing heaving acceleration of the semi-submersible offshore platform based on a linear potential flow theory; considering a noise influence of a heaving motion measurement marine environment, a low-frequency influence caused by a slow change of the environment and an influence caused by a baseline drift error of an acceleration sensor, introducing a noise term, a low-frequency change term and a baseline drift error term, and uniformly representing the noise term, the low-frequency change term and the baseline drift error term by a unified Prony sequence; and removing a drift term from uniformly represented heaving acceleration, establishing a relationship between the heaving acceleration and heaving motion parameters in terms of the remaining Prony sequence with the drift term being removed, and estimating the heaving motion parameters.