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CONTENTS Technical Extracts from the Memoirs of Dr. J. A. Pierce Edited by Walter F. Blanchard Specifications for Reflectors and Radar Target Enhancers to Aid Detection of Small Marine Radar Targets J. N. Briggs On Safety Metrics related to Aircraft Separation L. M. B. C. Campos and J. M. G. Marques Search and Rescue Location and Identification: Experience with SARTs Capt. Dr. A. C. Bermejo Diaz, Capt. Dr. A. J. Poleo Mora and Dr. I. P. Armas GMDSS Operability: The Operator-Equipment Interface Dr. Ernestos Tzannatos On Your Watch: Automation on the Bridge M. H. Liitzhéft and S. W. A. Dekker Applying Back-propagation Neural Networks to GDOP Approximation Dah-Jing Jwo and Kuo-Pin Chin Climatological Analysis of Old Norse Sailing Directions for North Atlantic Routes Bernard A. Power The Integrated Design of Fuzzy Collision-Avoidance and H_,-Autopilots on Ships Cheng-Neng Hwang Predicting Sea Ice Conditions using Neural Networks A. El-Rabbany, G. Auda and S. Abdelazim FORUM Collision Regulations — Discussion John Kemp Collision Regulations — Discussion Pat Manley Finding Distance —- The Fiske Rangefinders Peter Ifland Calculation of Distance Off by Two Horizontal Angles Sergio Kos Instructions for Contributors Technical Extracts from the Memoirs of Dr. J. A. Pierce Walter F. Blanchard The Role of LORCAN-C in Present and Future Navigation: from a Norwegian Nautical Perspective Norvald Kjerstad Future Air Traffic Management: Quantitative En Route Safety Assessment Part 1 — Review of Present Methods Peter Brooker A sociological interpretation of the COLREGS Phil Belcher An Intelligent Navigation Solution for Land Mobile Location-Based Services Stephen Scott-Young and Allison Kealy Location-Based Services: Navigation for the Masses, At Last! Colin Beatty Optimum Choice of Beacon in Maritime DGNSS Systems David Last and Alan Grant The Rules of Sailing Races for Hand-Held Devices Kenneth J. Turner and Mark A. Jennings Navigating Between Anchored Ships and Manoeuvering Difficulty Hideo Usui lonospheric Correction for GPS Tracking of LEO Satellites Oliver Montenbruck and Eberhard Gill Extending Coverage of DGPS by Considering Atmospheric Models and Corrections Changdon Kee and Doohee Yun FORUM Finding Distance —-T he Haecke Rangefinder Peter Ifland Definition of a High Speed Craft A. T. C. Millns Finding the Wind L. M. Dougherty Specifications for Reflectors and Radar Target Enhancers to Aid Detection of Small Marine Radar Targets Tim Barlett and John Briggs Book Review Technical Extracts from the Memoirs of Dr. J. A. Pierce Edited by Walter F. Blanchard Future Air Traffic Management: Quantitative En Route Safety Assessment Part 2 —- New Approaches Peter Brooker Estimation of European Airspace Capacity from a Model of Controller Workload Arnab Majumdar, Washington Ochieng and John Polak Civil Marine Radar — A Fresh Look at Transmitter Spectral Control and Diversity Operation P. D. L. Williams The COLREGS -— Time for a Rewrite? 1. P. A. Stitt The ‘ALVA CAPE’ and the Automatic Identification System: The Use of VHF in Collision Avoidance at Sea S. J. Harding Geomatics Aspects of the UN Convention on Law of the Sea — A Case Study Ahmed E]l-Rabbany Altitude Aiding for GPS Systems using Elevation Map Datasets P. Ptasinski, F. Cecelja and W. Balachandran The Usefulness of GLONASS for Positioning in the Presence of GPS in the Indian Subcontinent P. Banerjee, Anindya Bose and Ashish Dasgupta Distributed Positioning: A Network-Supported Method for Satellite Positioning Performance Improvement Renato Filjar, Darko Huljeni¢ and SaSa DeSi¢ Maritime DGPS: Ensuring the Best Availability and Continuity Terry Moore, Chris Hill and Luis Sardinha Monteiro FORUM Finding Distance — Not Knowing Height Peter Ifland Collision Regulations — Not To Impede Karen Williams Collision Regulatioas Discussions Carlos F. Salinas Book Reviews ON