7.1 Shore-based facilities
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.278(85) - Adoption of the New Mandatory Ship Reporting System “Off the Coast of Portugal –COPREP”- (Adopted on 1 December 2008) - Annex – Mandatory Ship Reporting System “Off the Coast of Portugal – COPREP” - 7 Shore-based facilities and personnel qualifications and training required to support the operation of the proposed system - 7.1Shore-based facilities

7.1 Shore-based facilities

 ROCA CONTROL maintains a continuous 24-hour watch over the COPREP area. The facilities of the Roca Control are the following:

  • (a) 8 Coastal Radars:

    • (i) Long-range SCANTER primary radars

    • (ii) Focus of long distance sea side coverage

    • (iii) Special high gain 21” antennas

    • (iv) Surveillance of all the continental Portuguese Coast

    • (v) Video from selected radar and combined radar data available to main centre's VTS operator;

  • (b) 8 Harbour Radars:

    • (i) Short range primary radars (for 3 of those)

    • (ii) Surveillance of the harbours approach area (for 5 of those)

    • (iii) Video from selected radar and combined radar data available to main centre's VTS operator;

  • (c) 11 AIS Sides:

    • (i) Automatic identification of ships:

        • IMO standards
        • 3 types of information: ship static, dynamic and voyage

    • (ii) Based on GPS positioning

    • (iii) AIS position data merged with radar data at operator display (TDS)

    • (iv) Ship identification correlated with National Maritime Ship Database;

  • (d) 11 Voice Radio Communication Sites:

    • (i) VHF voice radio communication with ships and aeronautical emergency channel

    • (ii) Complete coverage of the continental Portuguese Coast

    • (iii) VTS operators are able to communicate within the coverage area

    • (iv) Telephone and electronic communication between harbours and VTS control centres;

  • (e) 11 VHF Direction Finder Sites:

    • (i) Azimuthing of radio communication

    • (ii) Complete coverage of the continental Portuguese Coast

    • (iii) Data from all sites available for the VTS operators

    • (iv) RDF data is present on operator displays (TDS);

  • (f) 6 Meteorological Sites with:

    • (i) Anemometer, Thermometer, Barometer, Hygrometer, Rainfall indicator, Visibility sensors

    • (ii) Meteorological data of all sites will be presented to the VTS operators.

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