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-7 Target Handling
A RADAR.fm / 10.11.11
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7.1 Overview
Two types of targets can be handled on the radar, ARPA targets and AIS targets. For the targets, the
AIS electronics unit and the ARPA electronics of the radar are two independent sensors whose displays
and operating procedures take place on one and the same MFD. The two sensors deliver data independ-
ently, the data of both sensors are used for the collision avoidance computation, which takes place in
the background of all actions. It can raise alarms, for instance if objects are on collision course.
☞ A radar echo that is supposed to be taken in account is called an acquired target.
☞ An AIS target that is supposed to be taken in account is called an activated target.
Targets can be acquired/activated manually using the GUI or automatically by the system. This chapter
first gives an overview of types of targets and their treatment in the system. If neccessary, cross refer-
ences to manual/automatic target acquisition are noted.
ARPA Targets
ARPA targets are acquired or tracked radar echoes received from the selected transceiver. They can be
tracked
from a distance near 0 NM depending on antenna height and the target´s ship structure up to 24 NM
irrespective of the range scale in use
. Before a radar echo can be used as ARPA target, its echo is evalu-
ated by the ARPA electronics during a number of antenna revolutions. ARPA targets can be of the
following kind:
Table A / 10 Symbols of ARPA Targets in RADAR
See the chapters below for further information.
ARPA targets
A radar echo on the PPI. It is displayed as a green bunch of pixels
A radar echo that has been acquired manually and that is under evalu-
ation now
A radar echo that has been acquired automatically by the examination
of the radar video in an acquisition/guard zone.
An acquired target that is tracked by the ARPA electronics. Its past posi-
tions and speed/direction vector can be shown
A tracked target, which is selected and whose data are marked in the
target list
ARPA targets may have an ID
1)
displayed on the bottom right of the
symbol. The ID consist of a consecutive number generated by the
system preceded by the selected transceiver number.
1)
ID is used as a shortcut for (target) identifier in these operating instructions.
Lost Target. If any of the abovementioned targets gets lost, a flashing
cross is superimposed above the target symbol.
flashing,
red
1 04
flashing,
red
1 04