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A Raymarine chartplotter. A chartplotter is a device used in marine navigation that integrates GPS data with an electronic navigational chart (ENC).. The chartplotter displays the ENC along with the position, heading and speed of the ship, and may display additional information from radar, automatic information systems (AIS) or other sensors.
Raymarine is a manufacturer and major supplier of electronic equipment for marine use. The company targets both recreational and light commercial markets with their products, which include: GPS Chartplotters; VHF Radios; Digital Fishfinders / Sonar; Radar; Self-steering gear (Autohelm / Autopilot) Satellite television; Software
NMEA 0183 is a combined electrical and data specification for communication between marine electronics such as echo sounder, sonars, anemometer, gyrocompass, autopilot, GPS receivers and many other types of instruments.
In 1948 they introduced their fishfinder for use in commercial fishing vessels; the Furuno Fish Finder is the world's first practical fishfinder. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The first fishfinder marketed to consumers in America for recreational fishing was the Lowrance Fish Lo-K-Tor (also nicknamed "The Little Green Box"), which was invented in 1957 and ...
A common example of a moving map display today is the map display on a smart phone or tablet screen, with an app using GPS to determine the device's current position and display it on map data from the device's internal storage or from the Internet in real time. This use of phones and tablets has expanded very rapidly for navigation in car ...
Garmin Ltd. is an American multinational technology company based in Olathe, Kansas. [3] [4] The company designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes GPS-enabled products and other navigation, communication, sensor-based, and information products to the automotive, aviation, marine, outdoors, and sport markets.
Fish finder may refer to: Fishfinder , a sonar device attached to a boat, used to measure the amount of fish at various depths underneath the boat Fish identifier, an identification key used in fishing to identify the species of a caught fish
2–5 Good Represents a level that marks the minimum appropriate for making accurate decisions. Positional measurements could be used to make reliable in-route navigation suggestions to the user. 5–10 Moderate Positional measurements could be used for calculations, but the fix quality could still be improved.