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Touch-screen technology for Kongsberg
www.kongsberg.com
Kongsberg Maritime has developed a new
system it calls the Multiflex Panel, a flexible
touch-screen that will be used for its
Polaris simulation systems and can be
configured with different panel functions.
As a result of the implementation of
this technology training institutes using
the system will now be able to offer a
wider range of training on their Polaris
full mission simulators, without increasing
costs.
Over 70 different panel functions are
available, with the system having been
designed as a replacement for equipment
hardware by replicating the same panels
in a touch sensitive graphical format.
During an exercise, students can easily
switch between different functions (e.g.
Doppler log and Echo sounder) on the
same panel.
The instructors can choose between a
wide range of panel functions to be made
available to the students via the Multiflex
Panels from the Instructor-PC, or simply
use pre-configured training scenarios for a
specific ship class, which will automatically
present the panels required.
"Our new Multiflex Panels will provide
our customers with enhanced flexibility and
enable them to re-configure their bridge
instrument set-up to meet their own customer
training requirements," said Terje
Heierstad, product and technology manag-
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er, simulation, Kongsberg Maritime.
"This will provide them with much
more flexibility in the training scenarios
that they present on their full mission simulators,
as new scenarios do not require
hardware to be swapped out."
Kongsberg also reports that it has
Korea to launch maritime satellite
South Korea's Ministry of Land, Transport
and Maritime Affairs has announced the
country's intention to launch a new maritime
communications and weather satellite
during the middle of 2009.
The Chinese government press agency
Xinhua reports that the satellite, scheduled
for launch in June 2009, has been
jointly developed by the Korea
Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and
French aerospace company EADS
Astrium, with the European partner
responsible for the development of the
maritime monitoring technology to be
used on the spacecraft.
Astrium-constructed components have
been shipped to Korea, where the satellite
will be assembled by KARI using locally
produced satellite technology.
The approximately 356 billion Won
satellite, weighing in at 2.5 tons, will be
launched from South America and monitor
maritime developments over a 2,500
square km area, centred above Pohang on
the Korean east coast.
The satellite is expected to provide
information on marine life and fisheries,
as well as weather and communications
functions, following commencement of
operations, until at least 2016.
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applied the technology to a new touch
screen based Engine Room Simulator configuration,
the Neptune MultiTouch,
which is now in use at the Georgian
College, Ontario, Canada, and has also
been chosen for installation by the Åland
University of Applied Science.
The touch screen technology allows users to switch between
different panels on the same display
Sonar to aid in Chilean chart production
www.reson.com
Servico Hidrografico y Oceanografico
de la Armada de Chile (The Chilean
Navy Hydrographic and Oceanographic
Service, or SHOA) has taken delivery
of a new Reson sonar system, the second
such system the organisation has
implemented.
The complete system will be installed
on the vessel Albatross, and will aid the
Chilean Navy with the development of
new nautical cartography for Chilean
Waters, including electronic charts.
The total system comprises a Sea Bat
First commercial user
for Primar ECDIS
Online
www.primar.org
Primar reports that its new ECDIS Online
service has secured its first commercial
vessel user, following its adoption by the
high-speed craft Norwegian Vingtor.
Providing daily Norwegian fast ferry
services between Bergen and Stavanger,
HSC Vingtor carries an Adveto ECDIS-4000
system linked to a GPRS/3G connection,
with data speeds of 384 kbps and above.
The Primar ECDIS Online service will
allow the ECDIS (electronic chart display
information system) to receive real-time
ENC updates directly from the Primar
database and thereby have the very latest
navigational data at all times.
The system is offered free of charge to
end users via authorised distributors of
the Primar ENC (electronic navigational
chart) service, and has been developed
and tested over the past year in close cooperation
with Swedish ECDIS manufacturer
Adveto, the first Primar distributor to
fully implement the system.
The results of the development project
showed that ENC updates could be in use
within minutes of being released by a
hydrographic office.
"We believe passionately in working
closely with all elements of the maritime
industry," said Gerry Larsson-Fedde, the
Norwegian Hydrographer.
"We're working with other ECDIS
manufactures to expand the service."
7125-E high resolution multibeam sonar, a
NaviSound 410 Deepwater hydrographic
and broadband echosounder, and a
PDS2000 software package.
The SeaBat7125-E provides highresolution
bathymetry and imagery
data in real time for 3-D representations
of underwater features and seabed
conditions. It has an operational depth
of 400m.
The NaviSound 410 Deepwater hydrographic
and broadband echosounder has
an enhanced hydrographic echosounder
that supports single channel operation,
with a ping rate of 20Hz.
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