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Baltic and North Sea

ECDIS Testbed basis of a single display. The benefit is obvious. "An increase in safety, because there is no longer any need for an error-prone inte- gration of items of information coming from different sources, and the risk and mental work load are reduced at the same time," said

Professor Froese.

Tests such as the ones being carried out on the Finnjet and the

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BANET PROJECT PARTICIPANTS

The BANET Project comprises several major players to make the ECDIS test work. The following is a listing of the major players and the parts each played.

German Office of Maritime Ship- ping and Hydrography (BSH): • Generated ECDIS data quality-checked as per ISO 9000 for those parts of the routes of the Finnjet and Hamburg that lie within

German sea areas. • Established relationships for BANET with non-German hydrographic services. • Representing the BANET work results in

IHO and IMO. • Preparation of the type test (with Atlas

Elektronik).

Atlas Elektronik GmbH • Onboard implementation of ECDIS. • Integration of radar information and de- velopment of a suitable method for the selec- tive display and utilization of hydrographic information. • Development of hardware and methods for transmission of data sets and of update data to the ship, including the on-board implementation.

SevenCs GmbH • Development of display and function rules for information contents, man/machine in- terface and application functionalities of an

ECDIS. • Development of a quality assurance pro- cedure for the production of ECDIS data so that the display and function rules can be implemented in an ECDIS. • Production of digital, object-based hy- drographic data within the framework of

BANET.

Institute of Ship Operation, Mari- time Transport and Simulation • Investigation of the necessary scope of information and functions for ECDIS on board, leading to the development of a requirement profile for the system. • Development of a procedure for the vali- dation and exchange of digital, object-based hydrographic data within the framework of a regional test database. • Investigation of the usefulness of ECDIS compared to conventional methods in the ship simulator "Susan." • Verification of the system performance findings. • Project management and coordination.

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