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Microplot 7

There are, essentially, seven specialised versions in the Microplot® family. Microplot 7 is designed for 32Bit Windows® systems. Microplot feature list a table of features available in the various versions of Microplot7®.

In general : Microplot is a suite of software that is designed to combine on a single screen all the necessary navigational and environmental information required for the bridge team to make quick and safe assesments of impending situations, thereby raising the safety standards on the bridge. Microplot® can display either vectored or raster scanned charts. Because Microplot is software, it can be quickly and cost effectively upgraded as the requirements for compliance with ECDIS, or any other standards, unfold :

Summary

Mariner

  • As the name suggests, this version of the software is designed with the Merchant Navy Navigator in mind.
  • Includes the use of the BSB® format NOAA® charts in addition to S57, ARCS® and C-Map CM93/3®.
  • A Cross-Track Error window is present and has been extented to include an interface for 'Fuel Optimisation Systems'.
  • Plotting tools.
  • ARPA target CPA information.
  • Complex area alarms. Allows alarming of any number of irregular shaped areas.

Mariner ECDIS

  • Designed tested and approved by Det Norske Veritas (DNV), as meeting all the IMO regulations for an Electronic Chart Display & Information System.
  • Includes the use of 5 chart formats; S57, C-Map CM93/3®, ARCS® and BSB® format NOAA®.
  • Route analysis with risk assessment.
  • Comprehensive alarm indication including user-defined look-ahead
  • Many plotting tools.
  • ARPA target CPA information.
  • Navtex integration with positioned on-screen indicators
  • Complex area alarms. Allows alarming of any number of irregular shaped areas.
  • Log, Echo-sounder, auto-pilot etc., plus the usual user overlays.

Survey

  • Two software packages (MR and SA) designed for marine survey, bathymetry, hydro-acoustic & dredging operations.
  • Survey Movement Record is developed more with mobile targets in mind. e.g. 'Tailboard' tracking and acoustic target tracking (HPR).
  • More than 30 Navigation Aid syntaxes.
  • Conversion to any Datum, including 'Flat earth' with any direction up (x,y).
  • Output to Survey tools and/or to autopilot.
  • Conversion software enabling all Microplot data files to be converted to ASCII format for use with other post-processing software.
  • DXF to Microplot conversions enabling the display of CAD created data.
  • Survey Sea-bed Analysis Has all the previously described survey features less the mobile target features of Survey Move, but plus the full interfaces for QTCView®, SeaScan®, RoxAnn® and Fishscope V® for sea-bed analysis .

Network

  • This is an Office version of Microplot in that it can accept no input from external sensors (Navaids, Gyro etc.), but is capable of running over a LAN. It is designed with the corporate, college or nautical school user in mind. A license is purchased for a maximum number of users and the system will then monitor the LAN ensuring that no further copies of Microplot can be started until one has been closed down.
  • Office versions have all the functionality of their comparative 'Live' system (See below), less the ability to accept live input.

Work-Boat

  • This is the entry level of Microplot, ideal for Pilot cutters, Harbour authority launches, diving tenders, inshore fishing vessels etc.
  • Interface upto 4 different Navaid of various syntaxes: eg. NMEA 0183, Decca Mk52, Furuno and a user defined such as Sercel Veripos.
  • Decca/Loran/Lat & Long conversions, on-line.
  • Interface to Echo-sounders and colour track by depth.
  • The ability to display both Raster charts (, Seafarer™ and BSB™)as well as Vectored charts ( or C-Map®) and superimpose your own user files.
  • Automatic conversion from your GPS Navaid Datum (WGS 84) to that of the chart in use.

Standard

  • This is the version of Microplot® supplied to the fishing industry and also to the marine aggregate dredging industry.
  • Interfaces for more Navaid syntaxes.
  • Interface for ARPA radars, giving the ability to record the track of acquired targets.
  • Three interfaces for sea-bed analysis tools available in the same software. Quester Tangent View®, SeaScan®, RoxAnn® and Fishscope V® from American Pioneer.
  • The ability to record the track of acquired targets and overlay on ARCS®, NOAA® (from BSB in the USA) and C-Map or LiveChart vectored charts with your own user files overlaid.
  • A scaleable ownship.
  • Gyro interface.

SIS continues to broaden its approach to the much wider market - that of the deepsea fleet operators, navies and port authorities - all of which can benefit from the cost effective approach of SIS to marine software system design. Unlike many other companies in similar fields SIS presents a team of professional seafarers well trained in computer systems design and maintenance. From its headquarters in Aberdeen, this financially sound British company provides effective systems proven in the bridges and wheelhouses of modern cargo ships, naval vessels, tugs, dredgers, fishing vessels, rigs and anchor handlers around the world.

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