User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- GENERAL
- 1 About these Operating Instructions
- 2 Safety Precautions
- 3 NACOS Platinum System Description
- 4 Multi Function Display
- 5 NACOS Platinum Graphical User Interface
- QUICK START GUIDE
- MAIN APPLICATIONS
- RADAR
- 1 General Information
- 1.1 RADAR Safety
- 1.2 Current IHO Standards / Regulatory Approvals
- 1.3 System Structure and Installation
- 1.4 Basics / Evaluation of the RADAR Video
- 1.4.1 Basics of the Evaluation of RADAR Video in Platinum Series
- 1.4.2 Achievable RADAR Range
- 1.4.3 Distortions of the RADAR Video
- 1.4.4 Undesirable Echo Displays and Effects
- 1.4.5 RADAR Setting for the Display of Racon Codes
- 1.4.6 RADAR Settings for Target Enhancer Detection
- 1.4.7 RADAR Setting for SART Detection (X-Band only)
- 1.4.8 Transmission formats
- 1.5 Basic setting of the RADAR Video
- 1.6 RADAR Accuracy
- 2 The RADAR Keyboard
- 3 An Overview of the Screen
- 4 RADAR Application Area
- 5 RADAR Sidebar - Permanent Area
- 6 RADAR Sidebar - Non-Permanent Area
- 7 Target Handling
- 7.1 Overview
- 7.2 Manual Target Acquisition
- 7.3 Manual Target Selection
- 7.4 Automatic Target Acquisition
- 7.5 Settings for Dangerous Targets
- 7.6 Settings for Acquisition/Guard Zones
- 7.7 Target Fusion
- 7.8 Deletion and Loss of Targets
- 7.9 Critical Target
- 7.10 Target List
- 7.11 Target Display
- 7.12 Trial Manoeuvre
- 7.13 Reference Target Tracking
- 7.14 ARPA Training
- 7.15 ARPA Malfunctions
- 7.16 AIS Malfunctions
- 8 User Symbols
- 9 CHARTRADAR (optional)
- 9.1 Overview
- 9.2 Basic Adjustments
- 9.3 Selecting the Objects to be Displayed in the Vector Chart
- 9.3.1 Overview
- 9.3.2 Categories of Display Groups
- 9.3.3 Select a Category
- 9.3.4 Select the Primary Chart Information Set (PCIS)
- 9.3.5 Indication of Category in the Status Line
- 9.3.6 Defining the Symbol Presentation
- 9.3.7 Setting the Display of Text Labels
- 9.3.8 Switch on Additional Information
- 9.3.9 Switch on Conditionally Displayed Features
- 9.4 CHARTRADAR Application Area
- 9.5 Application Area Context Menu
- 9.6 Setting the Depths Lines to be Displayed in the Vector Chart
- 9.7 Setting the Own Ship’s Draft
- 9.8 Activating the Chart Monitoring
- 9.9 Setting the Look-Ahead Sector
- 9.10 Chart Maintenance
- 9.11 Main Differences between CHARTRADAR and Full ECDISPILOT
- 1 General Information
- VOYAGE PLANNING AND MONITORING
- 1 Voyage Planning
- 1.1 Generation of Routes
- 1.1.1 General Information about Pre-planned Tracks
- 1.1.2 Generation, Handling and Administration of the Routes
- 1.1.3 Route Display Settings
- 1.1.4 Route Editing - Graphical
- 1.1.5 Route Editing - Text Mode
- 1.1.6 Details of the Waypoint Data
- 1.1.7 Checking of Routes
- 1.1.8 Completing the Generation of the Route
- 1.1.9 Import / Export Routes
- 1.1 Generation of Routes
- 2 Chart and Route Monitoring
- 1 Voyage Planning
- CONNING
- SENSORS
- OPTIONAL APPLICATIONS
- MAINTENANCE
- 1 Performance Monitor
- 2 Data Maintenance of the Electronic Charts
- 2.1 General
- 2.2 Starting Chart Maintenance
- 2.3 Chart Maintenance Application Area
- 2.4 Update of Charts from Media
- 2.5 Messages during Chart Update
- 2.6 Display Charts which are on a Media or a MFD (workstation)
- 2.7 Maintenance of Charts on your MFD (workstation)
- 2.8 Display Expander
- 2.9 Backup/Restore of Map Data
- 3 Manual ENC Update Editor
- 4 Hardware Maintenance
- 5 SW Version and Updates
- ALARMS
- LISTS AND INDEXES
- DOCUMENT HISTORY
NACOS Platinum
ED 3100 G 110 / 02 (2011-10)
Operating Instructions
A-9 CHARTRADAR (optional)
A RADAR.fm / 10.11.11
A-110
9.11 Main Differences between CHARTRADAR and Full ECDISPILOT
The ECDIS application, which is used for the CHARTRADAR is a subset of the software package used for
the full ECDIS. The main differences can be summarized as follows:
Table A / 14 Differences between CHARTRADAR and ECDISPILOT
Function ECDISPILOT CHARTRADAR
Overview
(the two
screenshots
show exactly
the same posi-
tion of own
vessel and the
same bright-
ness settings)
Th
e chart is presented in a full rectangle The chart is presented in the radar PPI
Planning With the Browse function any position in the
worldwide chart can be shown in the centre
No Browse function selectable, the own ship
remains always visible within the PPI, no
planning
Presentation
of radar video
and chart
The ECDIS colour set according to IHO S-52
presentation library appendix 2 is used with
colour sets for day, dusk, and night. The radar
video is in the background and superseded by
any ECDIS symbols
The radar video is always in the foreground,
the ECDIS is presented as an underlay
providing a dark background for radar video
(colours are closely aligned to ECDIS dusk
and night colour tables)
Presentation
of no-chart
data areas
Operating of
radar
No operating of radar TX functions possible,
corresponding side bar in permanent area is
suppressed
Operating of
navigation
tools
LOP, EBL, &VRM and PI lines are available
from ->Tools ->NAV tab
EBL, VRM and PI lines are available from the
radar function side bar in the permanent area,
LOPs are not available
Display object
groups
Can be displayed per category: Base,
Standard, All and Customized. The last one
provides individual selection of groups.
Same as ECDIS plus Primary category; Select
Primary to set the Primary Chart Info Set (IEC
62388)
Display ECDIS
Symbol Library
Chart1
ECDIS Chart1 is a tab that can be opened in
the application area, shows a legend of
symbols used
No comparable function available, the symbol
legend would cover the radar presentation,
not permitted
An area with no-chart data
of any kind is marked with
the “no data” symbology
defined in the IHO S-52
presentation library
appendix 2/3.2.3(14)
According to IEC 62388
Ch. 11.1.8.2 the no-data
area is shown as the
radar background, here in
black
Operating of radar TX func-
tions possible, corresponding
side bar is available