Developing weather forecast delivery system to vessels operating in the Arctic region

• Main Author: Bhattarai, Vinaya
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Software Engineering; fi=Tieto- ja viestintätekniikka|sv=Informations- och kommunikationsteknik|en=Information and Communications Technology|; YOPP; Weather Forecasting; Arctic; SAR; FMI; Degree Programme in Information Technology
• Online Access: http://www.theseus.fi/handle/10024/173912

Despite the increase in marine traffic in the Polar region, high-quality forecasting has been lackluster in comparison to other areas of the planet. In an effort to improve this situation, the Polar Prediction Project started the multi-year long project named Year of Polar Project (YOPP). FINYOPP is a research project managed by the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) following the objectives of the parent YOPP project. The main aim of this thesis is to research the feasibility of providing forecasts and observations data to vessels operating in the Arctic region. This is carried out by cooperation among Navidium Plc, FMI and KNL Networks all of whom operate in Finland. The forecast delivery network is provided by KNL, software development is handled by Navidium and FMI provides forecasts as well as satellite observations in addition to supervising this project. This thesis then describes various development stages of the project development which started with analyzing the current product of Navidium and measures that would be required to make it compatible with the project. Moreover, methodologies such as the use of Scrum for agile development are briefly discussed. Then, this thesis provides requirements of the project which is based on the location of components installed which is Vessel and Shore modules. The project implementation fulfilling most of the requirements is described with proper workflows to explain the process. Objectives that could not be achieved are provided with reasoning for that to occur. At the end of the implementation, the thesis summarizes the achievement of most of the requirements. At the end section of this thesis, the results are briefly discussed. The problem that arose after the deployment is mentioned along with the suspected cause of it. Finally, this thesis addresses the need for further improvement in the quality of an already quite complete project.