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OceanVision Overview

OceanVision is an electronic charting-navigation system and much more. The system can display full reproductions of marine navigation charts in high resolution colour. It also displays the vessel's position on the charts and can track the path travelled by the vessel in operator defined colours and line types. Multiple windows allow charts and other important information to be displayed simultaneously.

To enable OceanVision to carry out these functions, together with a full compliment of navigation functions, it interfaces to several electronic devices, the most important being a GPS.

Using OceanVision, the operator can:

• Enter waypoints. Used as routes for navigation, planning or comparison with the actual course travelled.
  
• Make inquiries of any position. Obtain positional information with relation to the vessel's current position, simply by pointing a location on the chart.
  
• Place "event markers". Store important fishing  locations, danger and restricted areas. Detailed information can be attached including date, time, weather conditions and catch statistics.
  
• Utilise a powerful database. A wide range of queries can be created and used to obtain specific information about a group of points or to search the data for results based on a set of criteria.
  
• The chart being displayed can be reduced or increased in scale as necessary to provide the operator with the most desirable view for navigational functions. The chart can be switched off completely by the operator if required to simplify graphical editing and other operations.