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
ED 3100 G 140 / 04 (2011-11)
Operating Instructions
F-1 AIS
F SENSORS.fm / 10.11.11
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NACOS Platinum
1.2 Overview of Functions and Operating Procedures
Targets and Other AIS Objects
With regard to the objects that can be detected by the AIS system and transferred to the radar indicator,
a distinction is drawn between the following:
- AIS targets: ships that are equipped with an AIS system
- SAR aircraft: search-and-rescue aeroplanes or helicopters
- Aids-to-Navigation: navigation marks, e.g. beacons and buoys
- Base stations: Equipment for controlling the AIS system, e.g. as a component of a traffic control
centres.
The AIS targets and SAR aircrafts can be activated and tracked, as well as the radar/ARPA targets. See
chapter 7.1 on page A-56 for details about ARPA and AIS target handling.
All AIS objects can be displayed on the PPI, and in ECDIS mode they can be displayed throughout the
entire chart area. The data of the individual monitored targets can be displayed in detail.
Safety Messages
Via AIS systems, safety messages
1)
can be communicated if necessary, which are then passed on by all
receiving AIS systems as a message or an alarm to their display units. The procedures for dealing with
the safety messages received are described in section 3.3.
Monitoring/Setting of the Own Ship Data Transmitted
Most of the information transmitted from your own AIS system is generated automatically by the system.
However, some items of information (e.g. ship's draught, hazardous cargo, destination, ETA) have to be
defined by the operator by inputs to the AIS operating unit.
☞ Because these data are voyage dependent, their input to the AIS unit should be assured by including
them in the nautical check list.
Setting of the communication technique (channel selection, bandwidth, transmission power etc.) usually
takes place fully automatically. In very rare cases, however, manual setting procedures too might be
necessary for the channel management.
The Type of your own AIS System
The interface between an AIS transponder electronics unit and the display/operating unit (here, RADAR-
PILOT or ECDOSPILOT) is standardised. Any type approved class A transponder can be connected to the
Platinum system. All the display related functions as described in the subsequent chapters can be
controlled from the RADARPILOT/ECDISPILOT user interface.
Installation settings like MMSI, GPS antenna location etc. are not standardised, they are set with the
corresponding MKD (minimum keyboard display) which comes along with an AIS transponder system. For
the Platinum AIS transponder system 3410 there is no MKD required. The initial configuration can be
carried out with the Platinum Integration Manager SW Tool.
1)
Also called safety related messages in the relevant regulations.