The Adlard Coles book of radar / Börje Wallin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallin, Börje, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radar.

Electronics in navigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (94 p. ) col. ill.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Adlard Coles Nautical, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book's highly practical approach complements the radar owner's manual, and will enable users to make the most of this extremely valuable, but notoriously tricky to operate, navigation tool. Radar is notoriously tricky to operate and 'read' correctly for collision avoidance either with the land or with other vessels. But used by an informed operator it is an immensely valuable navigation tool - especially in poor visibility. GPS will tell you where you are, but it won't tell you if there's another boat in that spot! Rather than taking a theoretical, academic approach, this book is highly practical and hands on - complementing the radar owner's manual and explaining what the operator really needs to know when faced with actual situations at sea. Packed with illustrative photos, charts and radar screen shots, this book gives guidance from a real life, on-the-water perspective, and will enable readers to solve problems on the spot.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Part 1 Getting started

1 Starting up

The parts of a radar set

Getting a picture

Summary

2 Interpreting the picture

Radar horizon

Refraction

Radar beam

Pulse length

Radar shadow

The quality of different targets

3 Disturbing phenomena

Sea Clutter

Rain Clutter

Side Lobe contacts

Indirect contacts

Interference

Blind sectors

4 Display modes

Head-up

North-up

Course-up

Off centre

True motion

Radar overlay

Sources of technical error

Broadband radar

Part 2 Navigation

5 Navigating by radar

Identifying your position

Determining direction

Planning ahead

6 Pilotage

Controlling your track

Parallel indexing

Altering course

Clearing ranges

Stopping in time

Identifying objects

The human factor

Making landfall

Part 3 Collision avoidance in restricted visibility

7 Proceeding with caution

The importance of a look-out in restricted visibility

Finding a safe speed

8 Locating and monitoring moving targets

Guard Zones

Trail function

9 Assessing the risk of collision

Relative motion

Using the EBL

Using the Trail function

MARPA

Plotting

Radar assisted collision

The relative plot in practice

10 Taking avoiding action in the open sea

Planning avoiding actions in advance

Avoiding actions in practice

11 Close-quarters situations

Avoiding action in restricted visibility and in confined waters

Follow-up

In visual contact

12 The human element

Wahkuna and P&amp

O Nedlloyd Vespucci

Whispa and Gas Monarch

13 Seeing and being seen

Radar reflectors

Radar transponders

Glossary.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2016).

ISBN:

9781408151228

1408151227