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- Title
Simulated Navigation Performance with Marine Electronic Chart and Information Display Systems (ECDIS).
- Authors
Donderi, Don C.; Mercer, Robert; Hong, M. Blair; Skinner, Douglas
- Abstract
Licensed mariners carried out two simulated navigation studies testing electronic chart and information display systems (ECDIS) against paper chart navigation. In the first study, six mariners each completed approaches to Halifax, Nova Scotia, harbour with good and bad visibility and a range of wind and currents. Conditions included chart with radar, ECDIS with radar overlay and ECDIS with separate radar. ECDIS produced better performance and a smaller workload than paper charts and the radar overlay was slightly better than the separate radar display. In the second study, six new mariners completed exercises with low visibility and heavy or light radar traffic using ECDIS with radar overlay, ECDIS without overlay and ECDIS with optional overlay. Mariners preferred the optional overlay but all three conditions produced about equal performance. Based on mariners' performance and expressed preference, we recommend that ECDIS systems provide optional radar overlays.
- Publication
Journal of Navigation, 2004, Vol 57, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
0373-4633
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/s0373463304002668