Implementation of Data Mining Techniques for Weather Report Guidance for Ships Using Global Positioning System

This paper deals with the implementation of data mining methods for guiding the path of the ships. The implementation uses a Global Positioning System(GPS) which helps in identifying the area in which the ship is currently navigating. The weather report on that area is compared with the existing database and the decision is made in accordance with the output obtained from the Data Mining technique. This decision about the weather condition of the navigating path is then instructed to the ship. This paper highlights some statistical themes and lessons that are directly relevant to data mining and attempts to identify opportunities where close cooperation between the statistical and computational communities might reasonably provide synergy for further progress in data analysis. GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM(GPS) provides specially coded satellite signals that can be processed in a GPS receiver enabling the receiver to compute position, velocity and time. Satellites were first used in position finding in a simple but reliable 2D Navy system called „Transit‟ which laid the ground work for a system-“The Global Positioning System” that is funded and controlled by US Dept of Defense (DOD).