Abstract:

Xuelong Online is an internet information platform connecting M/V Xuelong and the domestic, which automatically transferring GPS location data and scientific data from Xuelong to domestic server with Inmarsat BGAN, publishing the realtime data with Web GIS. The platform presents an information window for Chinese polar administration, expedition members, their families and the public. At the same
 time the platform supports the voyage of Xuelong with sending some useful data to it such as daily sea ice maps. Since November 2009, Xuelong Online has provided functions for internet users including to view realtime Xuelong data, view planed voyage line, show the real navigation points in screen map, search one day’s real voyage, view the graphs of data, automatically pan the history voyage, publish the recent polar news and push data to Xuelong. Until now, the platform functions mainly focus on the data acquiring and presentation from Xuelong. In the future we will expand the functions benefiting to the navigation of Xuelong and improve the data exchange mechanism between the domestic and Xuelong.

Key words: M/V Xuelong, real-time voyage, data exchange, GPS, GIS