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& ASSESSMENT CENTER, INC.

MANILA CITY, PHILIPPINES
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 DAY 4

Additional Navigational
Information

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 Various Hydro-meteorological data
available in ECDIS
Several electronic chart systems have a capability to
receive and display a variety of weather and oceanographic-
related information. Information parameters include:
Temperature
Wind speed and direction
Height, direction and period of wind caused and / or swell,
Atmospheric pressure
Type of precipitation
Likelihood of freezing spray
In addition to being an important factor for route/voyage planning,
weather/oceanographic information can be critical for search and
rescue (SAR) and recovery operations.
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Route Schedule

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 Waypoints and Routes
A waypoint is a position, where a planned change of status
will occur. It will often be a change of course but may also
be an event such as;
end or beginning of sea passage
change of speed
pilot embarkation point
anchor position

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 Waypoints and Routes
Waypoints may also be used as useful reference points to
determine the ship’s passage time and whether or not a
schedule is being maintained.
Where an electronic navaid which stores waypoint
information is in use, care should be taken to ensure that
waypoint designators remain uniform throughout the plan.

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 Planned Route
Routes may be created, edited, and displayed by using the
following route planning tools;
Add waypoint – to add a waypoint to the end of the current
route
Move waypoint – to move a waypoint to a different location
on the chart
Insert waypoint – to insert a waypoint into a route
Delete waypoint – to delete a waypoint from a route
Track mode – to change the waypoint leg. Each waypoint
leg is set to “Rhumb Line” by default. This toggles the mode
between “Rhumb Line” and “Great Circle”
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 Planning Notes

A lot of important information can be marked on the chart

display during the route planning. Planning notes on the
chart includes:
Courses and distances
Time labels and setting
Safe speed
Route limitations

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 Berth to Berth Route Planning
The resulting passage plan documentation should be used
to conform to the ISM code and company quality
requirements.
Separate databases for waypoint and routes, to make
planning informative and much more efficient.
Notes can be stored against each waypoint, and will be
transferred into any routes which utilize that waypoint
The detailed passage plan documentation incorporates the
navigator’s instructions and notes.

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 Berth to Berth Route Planning
Routes can be exported/shared with other vessels in the
fleet.
Passage plans can be exported and emailed to head offices
and third parties

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User Charts in Route
Planning

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 User Chart
User Chart – A user chart is vector editor for creating
added graphic and textual layers with a specified attributes
in the SENC
Mariner’s Note – can be used to enter text, symbols and
simple graphics manually onto the electronic chart display in
order to make notes requiring attention.
The following examples are available:
Text – wheel over , time to turn, call Captain
Symbols – pre-defined symbols provided to make notes
Graphics – simple graphic like points, lines and areas
Highlight danger – polygons and marked in red color
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 Mariner’s Objects
All other mariners’ navigational objects, which are listed in
the look-up table under “Non-standard classes”, are initially
assigned in the look-up tables to a default “Mariner’s
Standard” or “Mariner’ Other” categories.
However the mariner should have the option of changing
the category of any non-standard object class (except for
Display base), to suit his operational needs.

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 Creating Users Chart

A user chart is a file created using a special graphic editor;

information from this file is superimposed on the electronic
chart display.
ECDIS has a facility for displaying two such charts
simultaneously.
This permits all kinds of service information to be stored
and displayed separately from the updating information.
In this case the data of both charts is overlaid on the
principal nautical chart.

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 Editing User Charts

When it is necessary to display work with two User Charts

simultaneously it is necessary to remember that functions
for loading, editing, saving and unloading such charts do
not operate unless it is the active user chart.

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 Purpose of User Objects
The mariner may need to create his own object on the
chart, to mark a desired place, to apply manual chart
updating, to put textual comment on the chart.
User objects may look like:
Symbol – buoy, obstruction, tower
Sector – military practice area or pilot boarding place.
Line – pipeline, anchor chains, cable
Area – caution area, anchorage, guard zone
Text – character string located near a point or a line

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 Purpose of User Objects
Along with visual presentation, the user object must carry
meaningful information. In order to simplify user objects
handling, they are combined into User layers. The mariner
may select the layers to display on the screen

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ARPA / RADAR Overlay

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 ECDIS RADAR Overlay
Radar Image Overlay
Transferred radar information may contain both radar image
and ARPA information. If the radar image is added to the
ECDIS Display, the chart and the radar image should match
in scale and in orientation.
The radar image and the position from the position sensor
should both be adjusted automatically for antenna offset
from the conning position.

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 ECDIS RADAR Overlay
Integrating an electronic chart with radar provides a system which
can be used for both grounding and collision avoidance.
Transferred radar information may contain
• A radar video image containing charted navigational objects such
as buoys and land structures as well as target ships and other
objects which are not included in the ENC
• Tracked target information about acquired / activated targets

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 ECDIS RADAR Overlay

An ECDIS radar overlay provides important safety-related

advantages.
In many cases, it can be used as the primary system for
both navigation and collision avoidance.
Even if the navigator does not want to use the ECDIS
overlay continuously, he should use it temporarily for double
checking own ship’s position.

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 Relative Characteristics of RADAR
Data
Relative and True Positions
Using radar, own ship’s position is determined and
displayed relative to radar-conspicuous objects.
For ECDIS, features and objects-contained in the geo-
referenced electronic chart database – are displayed in
terms of true-geographical position.
This also applies to the display of own-ship’s position when
using a sensor such as GPS/DGPS.

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AIS Functions

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 AIS Fundamentals
The introduction of AIS expanded the usage of the
electronic chart, because by conveying the actual
navigational data of the vessels in the surrounding sea area
the vessels can not only be shown and the numerical values
of their movement parameters displayed on demand.
AIS technology therefore supplements effectively
RADAR/ARPA for collision avoidance done at the electronic
chart.

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AIS Information

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Procuring and Installing
Chart Data

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 Data Distribution Sources for ENC

WEND – WORLD WIDE ELECTRONIC NAVIGATIONAL

CHARTS DATA BASE
A common, worldwide network of ENC data sets, based on
the IHO standards, designed specifically to meet the needs
of international maritime traffic using ECDIS which conform
to the IMO performance standard for ECDIS.

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 PRIMAR – WORLD’S FIRST RENC
RENC – REGIONAL ENC CO-ORDINATING CENTRE

RENC – These centers accumulate chart

database from participating hydrographic
offices, ensure quality standards are met,
and provide the data to distributers for
procurement by the end user

The world’s first RENC came from the

Norwegians in Stavanger back in 1990
Under the name of Electronic Chart Center.

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 Updating Official Electronic Charts
Official electronic charts are kept up-to-date by applying
regular, weekly, update information to the chart data via data
file.
The update file may be transferred by wireless transmission
or by a suitable media e.g. CD.
The actual updating is applied automatically by the ECDIS
to its chart database.

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 Updating Categories
Manual Updating – usually based on unformatted update
information that is not machine-readable e.g. Notices to
Mariners, radio, verbal communication.
Automatic updating – consists of an updating process by
which the updating information is applied, within the ECDIS,
to the SENC without operator intervention. Automatic updating
is broke down into two sub classes.
 Fully automatic – update data reaches directly the ECDIS without
human intervention
 Semi Automatic – requires human intervention to establish a link
between the media used for transferring the update information.

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 Updating Categories
Date base related categories
 Integrated updates
 Non integrated updates
Aggregation Categories
 Sequential update
 Cumulative update
 Compilation update
 Formatting Categories
 Unformatted updating
 Formatted updating
Encryption Categories
 Encrypted updating
 Unencrypted updating
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 Data Protection
This document specifies a method of securing ENC
information and maintaining the integrity of an ENC service
with several data clients. The purpose of data protection is
threefold.
Piracy detection – to prevent unauthorized copying of data
by encrypting the ENC information.
Selective access – to restrict access to ENC information to
only those charts that a customer has acquired Chart
permits for.
Authentication – to provide assurance that the ENC data
came from the approved source by the use of digital
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 Data Protection
The data protection scheme encrypts only the ENC data
files within an S-57 exchange set. The data files include the
individual base cell files and any updates. Each single ENC
cell file will be encrypted using a cell key. The same cell key
will be used to encrypt all updates issued for that edition of
the ENC.

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 Data Protection
DEFINTION OF USER PERMIT
The user permit is 28 characters long and shall be written
as ASCII text with the following mandatory format and field
lengths. 16 hex chars + 4 hex char. Any alphabetic
character will be written in upper case.
Example: 73871727080876A07E450C043031

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 Verification of Updates
How does the mariner check that all updates have been
applied to the official ENC?
Verification of the application of updates can be found in the
list of updates already applied, which the ECDIS is required
to keep.
Should all available ENCs show the same date for the
latest update, it is likely that they have not been updated
regularly, and the distributor should be contracted for
verification.

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 ENC Service
There are two types of CD in the ENC service:

Base CDs – contains the latest base versions of each ENC

cell. Base ENC cells can be identified as their filename is
always followed within the extension “000”.Hence
BG500001.000 is a base cell. It may also contain updates
which have not been included in the Base ENCs at the time
of issue. It is re-issued periodically (every 6 months)

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 ENC Service
Update CDs – is issued weekly and are cumulative. Update
CDs contain all relevant ENC updates, new editions and
newly available base cells that have been issued in the
service since the last Base CD was issued. Update files are
sequentially numbered.

For example: the first update to the ENC above will have the
filename GB500001.001 the second GB500001.002 and so
on.

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Chart Updates

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 Updating ENC’s
In principle the generation and distribution of regular
updates uses identical organizational structures as for the
production and distribution of ENCs.
Their frequency is usually synchronized with the chart
corrections promulgated with national Notices to Mariners
for the affected sea areas.

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 Updating ENC’s

Updates may reach the ship via different ways depending

on the capabilities of the service provider and the
communication facilities onboard.
On data distribution media e.g. CD
E-mail attachment via SATCOM;
and as broadcast Message via SATCOM plus additional
communication hardware

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 Updating ENC’s
Performing updates on board
ENCs are regularly updated with official update information
distributed digitally.
The most important matters related to performing updates
on board include:
Updating procedures
Displaying update list
Reviewing their contents
Indicating updates on the screen
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 Update Log File
ECDIS shall keep a record of updates, including time of
application and identification parameters through a log file.
The log file contain, for each update applied to or rejected
by the SENC, the following information:
Date and time of application/rejection
Complete and unique identification number of update
Any anomalies encountered during application.
Type of application: manual/automatic

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 Update Infrastructure
ENC messenger runs in two data bases One in which e-
mail addresses are stored and a second one that holds the
ENC configuration on board of the participating ships. By
invoking these databases, ENC messenger is capable to
wrap update messages in e-mail and to automatically
dispatch the e-mail to the participants in the update service.
Once the e-mail is on its way, three alternate routes are
possible.
Vessels that cruise in the navigable waters of a port will be
able to download update messages to their ECDIS through
Local Update Service (LUS).
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 Update Infrastructure
Deep sea going vessels can receive update messages via
the World Broadcast Service(WBS).
An interesting alternative for deep sea going vessels to
receive data messages will be Individual Ship Service (ISS).

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 Man Over Board (MOB)
The MOB button places a Man Over Board Symbol on the
screen providing a range detailed info such as positioning,
bearing, range and time till arriving at MOB, the position is
recorded as a MOB entry in the logbook;
 As the vessel sails, the bearing to the MOB is constantly
updated and shown;
This emergency system enables immediate and accurate
search and rescue efforts.

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Simulator
Exercise 4
Thank You!!!