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
A-78
7.13 Reference Target Tracking
If at least one fixed ARPA target
1)
is selected as a reference target, the radar can determine the own
ship's speed vector with the aid of this target's relative motion. By means of this "reference target
tracking", the radar also acts as a speed sensor, and can be called up as such under REF TGT Speed
in the COG/SOG sensor selection menu. It is recommended to use more than one target for own course
and speed calculation in order to create as stable values as possible.
The resultant course and speed is calculated by averaging the relative speed data evaluated from all
selected reference targets.
Selecting a reference target:
Click on the fixed ARPA target with the MORE key, and then click
on REF Target On/Off (with the DO key) in the context menu.
The first reference target is given an R1 as its target label. If
there is more than one reference target defined, all reference
targets are given an independent sequential number in addition
to the letter R as prefix.
Cancelling the selection: Click on the reference target with
the MORE key, and then click on REF Target On/Off (with the
DO key) in the context menu.
☞ Up to five reference targets can be selected.
☞ The speed input "Reference Target Tracking" is treated as
a ground stabilized speed sensor (speed over ground),
displayed as COG/SOG data, but it is never used for calcu-
lation of relative course and speed of AIS targets (according
to the IMO rules)
2)
.
☞ The loss of a tracked reference target triggers the Lost
Target alarm. See chapter 7.8 on page A-66.
If the last reference target is lost, a new speed sensor must be selected. See chapter 3.2.2 on page III-
35.
If no new speed sensor is selected in time, the Speed Invalid alarm is triggered for the selection of
another speed sensor by the operator.
1)
A fixed target is a tracked radar echo of a fixed object like a buoy, a light house, a landmark etc. In the true
vector mode, it shows no or a very short vector. If a moving target is selected by mistake, the own speed deter-
mined will be incorrect. To ensure accurate determination of speed, several fixed targets should be selected as
references. AIS targets cannot be selected as reference targets.
2)
As long as REF TGT Speed is selected as COG/SOG input, the display of relative target data for AIS-targets is
omitted.
During reference target tracking, it shall be checked repeatedly if the selected reference
targets are still displayed as fixed targets. Loss of a tracked reference target may reduce
the accuracy of the evaluated own speed and course, whereby the true data of other
tracked targets may be deteriorated.