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will surely sweep many maritime circles in 2000, and remains a leading edge technology, Transas' Andrey Vorobiev, chief design engineer, Marine Naviga- tion Systems, points out that ECDIS is simply the cusp of development, and that the next step will involve integra- tion of all shipboard systems.

Echoing that thought was Patrick T,

Enright, Litton Marine System's (LMS) new director, Strategic Business Unit

Machinery Automation, who recently joined LMS to lead the devel- opment of a complete ship control and monitoring system. LMS is a particu- larly strong example of a company that has steadily built through acquisition, as it has integrated a host of widely recog- nized marine industry manufacturers in recent years, including Decca and C.

Plath. Litton has traditionally exuded a strong market confidence — confidence backed by a significant backlog of orders on both the commercial and naval fronts. Today is no different, as Litton touts its position aboard the largest cruise ship ever built — Royal

Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas built by

Kvaerner Masa-Yards. "The IBS for

Voyager of the Seas is actually two sep- arate systems," said Dr. Clark Graham, president of Litton Marine Systems. "The system has been designed so that there is a complete duplication and redundancy for all critical components."

Litton's major announcement at Euro- port centered on the introduction of a new virtual reality design tool for bridge layout. Design Vision 1.0 is a conceptu- al design tool for creating and evaluating integrated bridge system designs. It is a

CAD program, which allows the design- er to built a 3-D model of the bridge lay- out and evaluate various configurations.

The software was developed jointly by

Litton Marine Systems and the Univer- sity of Strathclyde.

STN Atlas Marine Electronics is another organization which has been transformed significantly of late, as the company was recently integrated into new parent company, Dvisseldorf-based

Rheinmetall Group, made a major announcement in Amsterdam. STN

Atlas presented a new navigational product, the Radarpilot 1000, with vari- ous versions of high-resolution 12 and 16-in. color graphic displays. New fea- tures include a new "clean sweep" func- tion which is designed to significantly eliminate clutter, and an enhanced zoom function to offer an enlarged display for tracked targets.

For more information on:

Transas' type-approved ECDIS

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Kelvin Hughes' type-approved ECDIS

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STN Atlas Marine Electronics1 Radarpilot

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Raytheon Presents Its

New Raychart 420

Raytheon, sup- plier to the world- wide recreational marine electronics market, introduces its new, fully waterproof Ray- chart 420 chart- plotter. The new device uses intu- itive software to simplify sophisticated functions such as viewing electronic charts, navigating, and creating and edit- ing waypoints. The chart's Find Ship button instantly centers the screen on your current chart position - no matter which area of the chart you are viewing.

Measuring six-in„ the compact LCD

Raychart 420 is economically packaged with the Ray star 112LP GPS. For advanced accuracy, Raytheon offers the

Raychart 420D, which is equipped with the Raystar 114 combined GPS/Differ- ential beacon receiver, providing repeatability greater than 39 ft.

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