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    Intro: Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) Is

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    ECDIS is an electronic chart display and information system that serves as an alternative to paper nautical charts. It displays a ship's position on an electronic navigational chart and provides continuous positioning information relative to land, hazards, and aids to navigation. ECDIS also provides safety features like alerting the watchkeeper if the ship gets too close to hazards or crosses a safety contour. It combines navigation functions into a single computerized system that can provide alarms or warnings when certain parameters are met or exceeded. ECDIS represents an integrated system consisting of hardware, software, and electronic chart data that is linked to other ship systems and sensors to aid navigation.

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    ECDIS is an electronic chart display and information system that serves as an alternative to paper nautical charts. It displays a ship's position on an electronic navigational chart and provides continuous positioning information relative to land, hazards, and aids to navigation. ECDIS also provides safety features like alerting the watchkeeper if the ship gets too close to hazards or crosses a safety contour. It combines navigation functions into a single computerized system that can provide alarms or warnings when certain parameters are met or exceeded. ECDIS represents an integrated system consisting of hardware, software, and electronic chart data that is linked to other ship systems and sensors to aid navigation.

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    ECDIS is an electronic chart display and information system that serves as an alternative to paper nautical charts. It displays a ship's position on an electronic navigational chart and provides continuous positioning information relative to land, hazards, and aids to navigation. ECDIS also provides safety features like alerting the watchkeeper if the ship gets too close to hazards or crosses a safety contour. It combines navigation functions into a single computerized system that can provide alarms or warnings when certain parameters are met or exceeded. ECDIS represents an integrated system consisting of hardware, software, and electronic chart data that is linked to other ship systems and sensors to aid navigation.

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    Intro: Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) Is

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    ECDIS is an electronic chart display and information system that serves as an alternative to paper nautical charts. It displays a ship's position on an electronic navigational chart and provides continuous positioning information relative to land, hazards, and aids to navigation. ECDIS also provides safety features like alerting the watchkeeper if the ship gets too close to hazards or crosses a safety contour. It combines navigation functions into a single computerized system that can provide alarms or warnings when certain parameters are met or exceeded. ECDIS represents an integrated system consisting of hardware, software, and electronic chart data that is linked to other ship systems and sensors to aid navigation.

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    Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) is,


    basically a display system meeting strict specifications required to display approved
    Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) data
    a 'stand alone' unit with basic sensor inputs such as course and speed displaying the ship's real
    time position on an ENC
    used as an alternative for paper nautical charts
    a computer-based automated decision aid
    to provide continuous position (i.e. continuously determi ning ship's position in relation
    to land, charted objects, navigation aids and unseen hazards)

    How it helps navigate the seas
    ECDIS provides on a screen a digitized chart of the area and will indicate automatically
    the position of the ship upon it
    It surrounds the ship with a safety net alerting the watch keeper if the depth under
    the keel reduces, or if navigational hazards become too close
    There is an automatic activation of the alarm signal upon the detection of dangerous
    objects marked on the chart

    ECDIS provide Warnings and Alarms. It combines several different functions into one
    computerized system which is possible to provide alarms or display warnings (indication) when
    certain parameters are met or exceeded as determine by the navigator.
    Types of Warning
    Deviating from a planned route;
    Approach to waypoints;
    Failure of the positioning system;
    Vessel crossing safety contour and;
    System malfunction or failure etc.

    Components of ECDIS
    ECDIS represents an item of equipment consisting of hardware, software and data. Whilst a
    high performance PC or workstation installed in a console linked with other items of ships
    equipment, such as:
    Course to steer linked with Gyro compass
    Rate of turn linked with a turn indicator
    Speed and distance linked with log
    Ship position is fed from the GNSS/GPS
    Radar data overlaid from source of radar.




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    http://www.iicacademy.com/docs/hydro-03.pdf
    http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_American_Practical_Navigator/Chapter_14#MILITARY_ECDI
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