NAVIGATION ALGORITHM

iMareCulture Seafaring Webservice offers users a unique visual experience through the simulation of Kyrenia’s ancient maritime paths based on archaeological evidence. Adding value to the offered service, users may also overlay the graphical illustration of existing wind data as well as they may compare the generated maritime routes to find out which one was the shortest-possible for the vessel to reach its destination.

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• The Kerynia-Liberty polar diagram was obtained from actual sailing experiments performed during the period of January 2003 to January 2008 (archive of Glafkos Cariolou).
• OpenSkiron weather data, available here.
• Digital bathymetry has been derived from the EMODnet Bathymetry portal, a European initiative, to compile and maintain a catalogue of available bathymetric data sets and to produce and publish EMODnet Digital Terrain Model (DTM) for the European sea regions. (Link to paper)
• GSHHG geographic data, courtesy of the GMT Team. Reference: Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1996, A Global, Self-Consistent, Hierarchical, High-Resolution Shoreline Data Base, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 8741-8743. (Link to paper)
• Landsat-7 image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
• DSM from ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM), Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.
• Chart.js is open source JavaScript charting for designers & developers and available under the MIT license.
• Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps, created by Vladimir Agafonkin.
• Leaflet WindBarbs, a wind barb plugin for Leaflet. This plugin enables the automatic creation of wind barb icons in Leaflet.
• Leaflet Ant Path. Creates a leaflet polyline with a ‘ant-path’ animated flux. This project is under the MIT LICENSE.

• Katzev, M. L. (1990) An analysis of the experimental voyages of Kyrenia II, in: H. Tzalas (Ed.), TROPIS II, 2nd International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity (Delphi 1987), 245–256, Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Tradition.
• Leidwanger, J. (2013) Modeling distance with time in ancient Mediterranean seafaring: A GIS application for the interpretation of maritime connectivity, Journal of Archaeological Science, 40(8), 3302–3308.
• Scheidel, W. (2015) ORBIS: The Stanford geospatial network model of the Roman world, Version 1.0, May 2015, Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics.