Scientific Journals
Zeszyty Naukowe
of the Maritime University of Szczecin
Akademii Morskiej w Szczecinie
Zeszyty Naukowe Akademii Morskiej w Szczecinie 58 (130) 5
2019, 58 (130), 5–6 ISSN 1733-8670 (Printed) ISSN 2392-0378 (Online) DOI: 10.17402/330
Editorial preface
Robert Jasionowski
Maritime University of Szczecin
2–4 Willowa St., 71-650 Szczecin, Poland e-mail: r.jasionowski@am.szczecin.pl Dear Readers,
In the opening words of this edition 58(130) I would like to thank all the readers for their growing interest in our journal. As editor-in-chief, I am pleased that there are new authors who want to publish their research in the pages of our quarterly, which includes articles in three major thematic categories: Navigation & Mari-time Transport, Transportation Engineering, and Marine Technology & Innovation. The subject matter of the published papers will likely be expanded in the future, especially considering that the Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin were submitted for evaluation by advisory teams appointed by the Minis-try of Science and Higher Education in three disciplines: civil engineering and transport; mechanical engineer-ing; environmental engineering, mining, and power engineering. Expanding the subject matter of the papers published in the Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin will further improve the position of our journal at the national and international levels.
I would like to announce to our readers that the quarterly Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin (in accordance with decision No. 583/P-DUN/2019 dated 21 May 2019) has obtained co-financing for 2019–2020 from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland funds allocated for activities pro-moting science, including translation and proofreading.
In this issue of Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin, the results of fourteen research papers are presented in four sections: Marine Technology and Innovation, Navigation and Maritime Trans-port, Transport Engineering, and Miscellaneous.
The first section, Marine Engineering & Innovation, contains four articles, the first of which presents a method to classify inland waterway ships based on images from a waterway monitoring system. The second article describes an innovative solution for automatic positioning using a visual system. In the third article, an experimental study on the hydrodynamic resistance of stepped planning hulls under different geometrical and physical conditions is presented. In the fourth article, the accuracy of defining the energy efficiency of drive systems is demonstrated by comparing hydrostatic drives using proportional engine speed control as an example.
In the second section, Navigation and Maritime Transport, there are three articles. In the first article, a methods which accurately map the shoreline in Inland Navigational Charts using photogrammetric and sonar images is presented. The next article is devoted to analytical method to determine VHF marine commu-nication bands. The last article in this section contains a research article describing the impact of temperature on the duration of the navigation season on the Oder border from 2004 to 2018.
The third section, Transport Engineering, contains six articles. The authors of these articles describe the importance of inland waterway transportation in maritime and land transport systems and present the
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current state and trends in the progressive development of inland waterway transport (infrastructure, means of transport, and impact of social media).
Section four, Miscellaneous, contains one article which is dedicated to the overall average in Polish mari-time law.
Readers are invited to visit our web page http://scientific-journals.eu/, where they may find information about the article publication process, as well as full texts of articles from the current issue 58(130) and works published in previous issues of Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin.
Robert Jasionowski, PhD Editor-In-Chief Szczecin, 25.06.2019
