AHP application for method selection of Royal Thai Navy maritime patrols

Abstract

This objective of this research is to select the suitable method to apply with Royal Thai Navy Maritime Patrols in order to reduce the number of ship. Which is used the Analytic Hierarchy Process to support methods obtained from the relevant literature and research in 4 methods i.e. Satellite Technology, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Technology, Underwater Sensing Network, and Radars. All information used in this research were collected via questionnaires surveys and interviews from the expertise in maritime patrolling with the 4 methods and person who works in Naval Acquisition Management Office (NAMO). The survey is asking both participants to indicate degree of perceived importance level of each factor to select the suitable method of Royal Thai Navy Maritime Patrols. Pairwise comparison was applied to prioritize the factors by score 1 to 9 maximum. The research result revealed that the most important decision factors affected the selection the suitable method of Royal Thai Navy Maritime Patrols ranking from highest to lowest were User’s safety, Risk of an offensive, Usability, Reliability and the Preciseness of data. As the result mentioned above, the suitable method for the Royal Thai Navy Maritime patrols is Satellite Technology.