Electronic aids to navigation / Roger Lownsborough and David Calcutt.
By: Lownsborough, Roger.
Contributor(s): Calcutt, D. M.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Edward Arnold, 1993Description: x, 246 p.ISBN: 0340592583.Subject(s): Electronics in navigationDDC classification: 623.8933Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Pulse radar systems act as the eyes of a ship during periods of reduced visibility and are thus one of the most important navigational aids. Increasingly, information obtained from radar is now processed by computers to create an automatic, anti-collision device (Automatic Radar Plotting Aid - ARPA) to give advance warning of potential navigation risk. Employing a systems approach to the subject, this companion volume to Position Fixing provides an explanation of the workings and application of both pulse radar and ARPA systems in the marine environment.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- Operating characteristics of a basic radar system
- Basic primary pulse radar system
- Propagation of radar waves
- Transmission lines
- Modulator
- Magnetron
- Waveguide
- Scanner
- Power monitor
- Bearing transmission system
- Duplexing
- Mixer stage
- Receiver
- Cathode ray tube
- Shift and deflection
- Display presentation
- True motion
- Raster scan display
- Inter-switched radar systems
- Radar reflectors
- Secondary radar
- Introduction to ARPA
- An ARPA system
- Operating instructions for Kelvin Hughes HR ARPA