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 110 / 02 (2011-10)
Operating Instructions
A-7 Target Handling
A RADAR.fm / 10.11.11
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NACOS Platinum
AIS Targets
AIS targets are all targets whose data are received by the AIS electronics unit connected to the system.
All AIS targets are visible per default after switch-on of the MFD.
☞ The display of groups of AIS targets (Class A, Class B , All) may be switched on and off by the
operator. Select All if you want to see all targets received from the AIS electronics unit.
AIS targets can be of the following kind:
Table A / 11 Symbols of AIS Targets
Target Fusion
Due to the fact that an AIS target within the radar range normally also produces a
radar echo, the symbols of tracked and activated targets are displayed close to each
other:
In this case, it is possible to decide whether the object is to be treated as an AIS
target or as an ARPA target. See chapter 3.5.1 on page III-59 for details. In terms of
an improved display readability and avoidance of cluttering the screen, the objects can
be fusioned if they meet some boundary conditions. That means, that they can be
displayed only as either AIS or as ARPA target depending on user selection. See
chapter 7.7 on page A-65 for details on Target Fusion.
☞ The number of ARPA and AIS targets being tracked should be kept as small as possible; the pres-
ence of too many targets causes confusion on the screen and distracts the operator's attention from
what is really important. Targets that are no longer relevant should be deleted (RADAR) or deacti-
vated (AIS).
AIS targets
A sleeping AIS target is a target that is displayed in the PPI. Its data
are evaluated and can be shown on demand.
A manually activated AIS target is displayed with detailed data such as
HDG, true scaled outline (if available in the received data set and the
PPI scale is large enough), ROT indicator, past positions and speed/
direction vector can be shown
An automatically activated target by the collision avoidance computation
or by a acquisition/guard zone
An activated AIS target, which is selected and whose data are marked
in the target list
AIS targets may have an ID displayed on the bottom right of the
symbol. The ID consists of the callsign or the ships name or the MMSI
depending on the settings in the target presentation menu.
Lost Target. If any of the above mentioned targets gets lost, a flashing
cross is superimposed above the target symbol.
For AIS targets the lost target alarm can be switched off in the Target
settings.
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