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1989: Vol. LXVI No. 1

The Defense Mapping Agency's Navigation Information Network

Enviado
julio 31, 2015
Publicado
2015-05-13

Resumen

More than a decade ago, the Defense Mapping Agency made a commitment to improve the means of processing, managing, eind producing navigation safety publications and information using automation to the fullest extent possible. As the present Automated Notice to Mariners System (ANMS) developed and matured, it became apparent that the future of dissemination of these data lay in telecommunications, thus the creation of the Navigation Information Network (NAV1NFONET). This paper will review the history, design, and use of the ANMS and then discuss the present and future utility of the NAVINFONET. As the age of the Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) approaches reality, the potential of the NAVINFONET as the only functional existing system to support corrections to ECDIS at sea may well prove its greatest value. In the interim, its worth is proven daily by the myriad of users who seek up-to-date marine safety information to correct their charts and publications far in advance of receipt of the printed word through the mails.