The mobile mapping service is provided through a web server having two components viz. the map component and the MSS message component. The GIS package used for storing the map data is AGIS. The base map is the world coastline map obtained from the AGIS web site. The second component, that is the MSS message is received by the web server in near real time. At the web server, the data is first logged into a database. Once uploaded it is ready for viewing by the fleet managers. The following tools are available for monitoring over the web site ("http://www.mss.sac.gov.in/sacmss.html"), on an individual basis or all at a time - routes & halts of the vessels, messages transmitted, speed of the vessel, the download (data) utility and standard map tools (pan, zoom, measure). Figure_2, Figure_3, Figure_4, Figure_5,Figure_6 & Figure_7 are snap shots of each of these features as viewed through a browser.

Figure_2: Browser view of routes of multiple vessels without date & time stamp

Figure_3: Browser view of individual vessel route with date & time stamp

Figure_4: Browser view of messages transmitted with date & time

Figure_5: Browser view of speed of the vessel

Figure_6: Browser view of Downloading co-ordinates, attributes& messages

Figure_7: Browser view of Map tools