Safe Navigation with Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS)

Safe Navigation with Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) is written with the aim of providing watch-keeping officers with an overview of the Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) and electronic charts. From July 2012 onward, all new passenger vessels and new tankers will have to be fitted with ECDISs and by the year 2018, the ECDIS equipment will become mandatory on all seagoing vessels. As such, all deck officers on seagoing vessels will need to be competent in operating the ECDIS to ensure safe navigation. Accompanied by numerous enhanced graphics, this book meets the learning objectives of the International Maritime Organisation s model course on ECDIS and enables easy reading and understanding of the ECDIS theory and its operational procedures. The operational procedures illustrated in this book are modeled on the Transas ECDIS; although the operational procedures of the ECDIS equipment vary with equipment manufacturers, the concepts are similar. The book also includes two appendices illustrating the operational procedures of the MARIS and the Kelvin Hughes ECDIS.

Features
(1) Aims to make navigating officers competent users of ECDIS in a short period of time
(2) Explains the key operational procedures in a linear and systematic manner
(3) Both the ECDIS theory and operation are combined in one book
(4) Includes several graphics that make understanding of the content easier
(5) Meets all the objectives of the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) courseon ECDIS