ECDIS Preventing Sea Accidents
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- Category: Maritime News Editors Articles
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31 Oct 2011
- Written by Infomarine On Line
Electronic Navigation chart is a modern tool that can definitely save ships from possible sea accidents. Like cars and other land vehicles with GPS, marines should also have something that will guide them in the ocean. The Electronic Chart Display and Information System or ECDIS is a type of modern map for ships.
ECDIS integrates radar and GPS, and uses the Automatic Identification System (AIS) which is used to broadcast their position to other ships by using radio signals, and displays an electronic map in real time with accurate readings of the weather and the local water depth.
