Texas institute develops navigation app for Houston channel

Regulatory/Transport

Friday, January 18, 2013

Researchers at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s Conrad Blucher Institute (CBI) have designed a new mobile application to provide ship captains and pilots with real-time predictions of ocean water levels and currents along the Houston Ship Channel, which services the second-largest port in the United States, the ports of Houston and Galveston. The app is based on information from sophisticated models that map and chart the channel’s topographic features several times a day ...

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