Enhanced position reliability for voyage monitoring
Today electronic navigation equipment plays more and more significant role in navigation tasks on the bridge. Even though the electronic means of navigation generally reduces the workload, it does create extra tasks for the navigators – they have to verify and validate the navigation data provided by the navigation systems, and they have to operate the vessels by using the very same data. To this end, FURUNO has created a software solution that assists the navigators in the data validation process.
Rather than depending on input from position sensors only, FURUNO ECDIS applies a multi-tiered filter for validating and utilizing the received information from multiple onboard navigation sensors to generate more reliable own ship position over electronic chart. This greatly enhances the situation awareness even in the event of sensor malfunction, hence contributing to safety in ship operation.
