RECOGNITION CHARACTERISTICS STUDY FOR BUOYS.
Abstract
By determining the present day required buoy significances, both lateral and non-lateral, to be provided as distinctive daymark qualities to the mariner, the present system of buoy color and shape coding is shown to have some shortcomings. The basis of these shortcomings stems from numerous additions to the original two-color, two-shape, two-signal system. A system is presented to provide a far more distinctive twelve-signal system utilizing four shapes and six colors. A review of the present day state-of-the-art of vision science yields some expectation as to which colors and shapes may be good. Experimentation is proposed to determine an optimal set of colors and shapes for the presented system. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 26, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0703313
Entities
People
- G. P. Clark