Furuno FUR MFDBB NavNet 3D Processor Receiver

Furuno FUR MFDBB NavNet 3D Processor Receiver

Modern technology supports the tried and true methods of navigation on the open seas. Knowing when to trust your instincts and knowing when to trust technology is easy with the right tools. NavNet Processor Receivers bridge the gap between knowing and not knowing.

Ring the bells, ring the bells, the Furuno MFDBB NavNet is here. This is an outstanding navigational technology that incorporates a variety of monitors and space saving displays that you configured to your control room. Furuno's NavNet 3D redefines the user interface of onboard navigation systems.Furuno's NavNet redefines the user interface of onboard navigation systems.

3D chart presentation allows picture to look like traditional chart configuration/ or you can look straight down. A quick review of The Furuno FUR MFDBB NavNet 3D Processor Receiver features reveals:

*Fish finding capacity to switch up to 3 kilowatts in a variety of presentations.
*Satellite weather information from the Sirius satellite network for info about your local area.
*Chart plotter / receiver navigation from a variety of sources to include radar sensor information.
*You have capacity for 24 to 96 nautical miles/ superb radar presentation.
*NavNet 3D allows you to display IP camera configuration for data output display.
*Used for marine instrumentation, gauges, and alarms.
*Fully functioning marine autopilot functions. Retrieve all vital info from one source.

Numerous advantages with the onboard navigation systems.

Time zero is a cutting edge technology developed to produce seamless chart redraw. Chart redraw enhances zooming, chart panning, changing chart display modes and other chart handling functions without limited range presets.

The seamless Time Zero feature gives you a remarkable seamless navigational environment that you must experience to believe. The Black Box series ( MFDBB ) incorporates a ultra-charged graphics processor that enhances the flexibility of the overall unit..

With the full time 3D chart rendering, you can choose a 2D top to down view of the navigational chart. The 3D environment does not trade modern technology for the familiarity of traditional chart plotting. With the NavNet 3D you get both. Preloaded features include complete vector chart libraries for the entire U.S. coastline, Alaska and Hawaii plus full-scale NOAA raster. At the top of this technological pyramid are the new Satellite Photo Fusion ™ charts. These chart presentations help to improve your situational awareness. You will have complete control over your charting environments.

With the Satellite Photo Fusion technology, you can fuse either raster or vector chart information. Land areas are completely opaque, so that these areas are displayed as high-resolution satellite photos on the chart. As the depth increases, the satellite photography become more transparent so that you will know where the shallows end and the deeper water begins, allowing you to navigate on the raster or vector chart. High-resolution satellite photography aids in seabed classification so that you will be able to easy identify areas of sand, rock, coral or other obstructions..

Features:

3D key--toggle from a familiar 2D top-down perspective, to your favorite 3D angle.
Time Zero Technology--smoothes out your chart handling actions for a stress-free operation.
Easy chart panning--allows you to focus on a specific area ahead of ar around your vessel..
Scalable Operating System--Roto Key feature with a familiar point and shoot cursor pad control.

The 3D Digital Solutions sets a new Standard. Operates on a fully digitized environment with its highly sensitive digital sensors for radar and fish finder. The operating structure is also digitized, delivering total fusion of hardware and software modules in its operation scheme, utilizing Ethernet, NMEA0183 and CAN bus interface.

FURUNO Digital Filter fish finders feature advanced filtering capabilities and digital auto tuning, which eliminates noise, while delivering the ability to spot individual fish with clarity, accuracy and detail. Useful for shallow or deep water. The FURUNO FDF fish finder gives you what you would expect from a fish finder at all times.

Ultra High Definition ( UHD ) Digital Radar--offers crystal clear, target presentation with automation real-time digital signal processing.NAVNET 3D Real-Time Digital Auto Gain/Sea Clutter Controls--computes and applies an adaptive Omni-directional anti-clutter filter with variable intensity depending on bearing. Chart Plotter--choose from pre-loader official NOAA raster and vector charts, or optional "C-Map by Jeppesen" and "Daacore by Navionics" vector cartography.

Depth Shading--on both 2D and vector and raster charts. So that chart data is visible beneath the color shading.
Preloaded Tides and Currents Information--preloaded with global tide and current information, which can be overlain onto the chart display. Real-time Dual Range Radar presentation with Dual Progressive Scan--simultaneous scanning technology as opposed to alternate update methods of typical conventional dual range radar. ARPA/AIS target tracking--up to 30 targets can be simultaneously acquired and tracked for heading and speed. NAVNET Fish Finder --audio and visual alarms alert you whenever preset limits are met for water depth, water temperature and fish echoes.

Status Bar--provides operating information with text messages and sensor status icons.
IP Camera and External Video Camera Displays--allows you to monitor the engine room, surroundings and blind spots while docking.Automatic Identification System--VHF broadcasts share information about the surrounding area, such as other craft and buoys and other aids to navigation.

Heaving Compensation with Satellite Compass SC-30/50/110--corrects echo distortion and delivers stable underwater presentation to your network. Fax Capability--send / receive real time fax information.

For an outstanding nautical tool that incorporates all real time technological advances consider merging tried and true methods with the advantages of mofdern technology.

As weather patterns become more and more unpredictable you will need every advantage available for your maritime adventures, commerce, and leisure activities. Today is the day to place your order. After all, you do not want to ever be lost at sea.


Ring the bells, ring the bells, the Furuno MFDBB NavNet is here. This is an outstanding navigational technology that incorporates a variety of monitors and space saving displays that you configured to your control room. Furuno's NavNet 3D redefines the user interface of onboard navigation systems.Furuno's NavNet redefines the user interface of onboard navigation systems.

3D chart presentation allows picture to look like traditional chart configuration/ or you can look straight down. A quick review of The Furuno FUR MFDBB NavNet 3D Processor Receiver features reveals:

*Fish finding capacity to switch up to 3 kilowatts in a variety of presentations.
*Satellite weather information from the Sirius satellite network for info about your local area.
*Chart plotter / receiver navigation from a variety of sources to include radar sensor information.
*You have capacity for 24 to 96 nautical miles/ superb radar presentation.
*NavNet 3D allows you to display IP camera configuration for data output display.
*Used for marine instrumentation, gauges, and alarms.
*Fully functioning marine autopilot functions. Retrieve all vital info from one source.

Numerous advantages with the onboard navigation systems.

Time zero is a cutting edge technology developed to produce seamless chart redraw. Chart redraw enhances zooming, chart panning, changing chart display modes and other chart handling functions without limited range presets.

The seamless Time Zero feature gives you a remarkable seamless navigational environment that you must experience to believe. The Black Box series ( MFDBB ) incorporates a ultra-charged graphics processor that enhances the flexibility of the overall unit..

With the full time 3D chart rendering, you can choose a 2D top to down view of the navigational chart. The 3D environment does not trade modern technology for the familiarity of traditional chart plotting. With the NavNet 3D you get both. Preloaded features include complete vector chart libraries for the entire U.S. coastline, Alaska and Hawaii plus full-scale NOAA raster. At the top of this technological pyramid are the new Satellite Photo Fusion ™ charts. These chart presentations help to improve your situational awareness. You will have complete control over your charting environments.

With the Satellite Photo Fusion technology, you can fuse either raster or vector chart information. Land areas are completely opaque, so that these areas are displayed as high-resolution satellite photos on the chart. As the depth increases, the satellite photography become more transparent so that you will know where the shallows end and the deeper water begins, allowing you to navigate on the raster or vector chart. High-resolution satellite photography aids in seabed classification so that you will be able to easy identify areas of sand, rock, coral or other obstructions..

Features:

3D key--toggle from a familiar 2D top-down perspective, to your favorite 3D angle.
Time Zero Technology--smoothes out your chart handling actions for a stress-free operation.
Easy chart panning--allows you to focus on a specific area ahead of ar around your vessel..
Scalable Operating System--Roto Key feature with a familiar point and shoot cursor pad control.

The 3D Digital Solutions sets a new Standard. Operates on a fully digitized environment with its highly sensitive digital sensors for radar and fish finder. The operating structure is also digitized, delivering total fusion of hardware and software modules in its operation scheme, utilizing Ethernet, NMEA0183 and CAN bus interface.

FURUNO Digital Filter fish finders feature advanced filtering capabilities and digital auto tuning, which eliminates noise, while delivering the ability to spot individual fish with clarity, accuracy and detail. Useful for shallow or deep water. The FURUNO FDF fish finder gives you what you would expect from a fish finder at all times.

Ultra High Definition ( UHD ) Digital Radar--offers crystal clear, target presentation with automation real-time digital signal processing.NAVNET 3D Real-Time Digital Auto Gain/Sea Clutter Controls--computes and applies an adaptive Omni-directional anti-clutter filter with variable intensity depending on bearing. Chart Plotter--choose from pre-loader official NOAA raster and vector charts, or optional "C-Map by Jeppesen" and "Daacore by Navionics" vector cartography.

Depth Shading--on both 2D and vector and raster charts. So that chart data is visible beneath the color shading.
Preloaded Tides and Currents Information--preloaded with global tide and current information, which can be overlain onto the chart display. Real-time Dual Range Radar presentation with Dual Progressive Scan--simultaneous scanning technology as opposed to alternate update methods of typical conventional dual range radar. ARPA/AIS target tracking--up to 30 targets can be simultaneously acquired and tracked for heading and speed. NAVNET Fish Finder --audio and visual alarms alert you whenever preset limits are met for water depth, water temperature and fish echoes.

Status Bar--provides operating information with text messages and sensor status icons.
IP Camera and External Video Camera Displays--allows you to monitor the engine room, surroundings and blind spots while docking.Automatic Identification System--VHF broadcasts share information about the surrounding area, such as other craft and buoys and other aids to navigation.

Heaving Compensation with Satellite Compass SC-30/50/110--corrects echo distortion and delivers stable underwater presentation to your network. Fax Capability--send / receive real time fax information.

For an outstanding nautical tool that incorporates all real time technological advances consider merging tried and true methods with the advantages of mofdern technology.

As weather patterns become more and more unpredictable you will need every advantage available for your maritime adventures, commerce, and leisure activities. Today is the day to place your order. After all, you do not want to ever be lost at sea.

AIS Receivers on VHFs?

Attribution:

Chuck Husick: Techno-Talk, May 2005 from BoatUS Magazine - Updated July 2009

AIS Receivers on VHFs?

The article "Big Brother's Little Box" (March 2004 BoatUS Magazine) describes the Class A Automatic Identification System (AIS) now required on all SOLAS vessels, numerous other ships and almost all tugboats. However, while the information contained in the AIS signal broadcast from these vessels can be of immense value to everyone, the cost of a full AIS unit can exceed thousands of dollars, too high for many recreational boaters. Even the Class B AIS, recently approved for sale in the US can cost $600 to more than $1200.

It is possible to gain use of the wealth of information contained in the AIS signals with use of an AIS receiver, without the added and substantial cost of getting in the loop by adding a transmitter. Receivers are available at prices ranging from less than $200 to $500. However, we have long believed that there is a wonderful opportunity for the manufacturer’s of marine VHF/DSC radios to provide virtually all the advantages of AIS to recreational vessels at a price only a couple of hundred dollars above the cost of a conventional radio. This idea has been discussed with each of the major VHF radio manufacturers and has recently been addressed by Garmin with the introduction of their VHF 300 AIS. A European manufacturer of VHF/DSC radios has stated their intent to introduce an AIS capable radio later this year. Another manufacturer's VHF/DSC radio was equipped with an internal AIS capability by a third party, however the maker of the radio disclaims all interest in what was accomplished.

The introduction of the Garmin 300 AIS is, in our opinion a step in the right direction for boats that navigate in high traffic areas. With a suggested retail price of $1,000 it leaves unaddressed the market for less costly VHF/DSC/AIS radios, a market we are confident will be addressed by other manufacturers in the coming year. We think BoatUS members and all other recreational mariners should encourage radio manufacturers to build the AIS receiver into their Class D VHF/DSC radios, (this makes sense for a number of reasons. The radio is already connected to an antenna, its receiver “front end” can handle the AIS information on channel 87B or 88B with an added circuit used to detect the AIS bit stream). The needed GPS information is already present in the radio where it is used to make the DSC function operational. The additional circuitry and the processor needed to construct the NMEA 0183 AIS sentence will not be very expensive and can share the power supply circuit already in the radio. The radio can deal with the AIS information as a "blind box"feeding the information to the chart plotter/radar and/or it can use its LCD screen to display the AIS data it receives.

The built-in AIS could also display data on the radio’s LCD screen. Display screens on VHF radios are getting bigger and transitioning to color, however most of the time the information they show is static, just the channel number in use. The screen could provide a basic AIS display showing the relative bearing and distance of AIS-equipped vessels within a selected range, perhaps 6 or 12 miles. As in a full capability AIS, the system could predict and display the distance and time of closest approach to the other vessels.

There are times when being able to communicate directly with the bridge of a nearby vessel is very helpful. Today, except for the few instances when we can see the name of the other vessel we are limited to calling "the blue hull tanker passing green 7". With the system we envisage, a "click" on the AIS target of interest would display the information about the target of interest, and automatically load the target’s MMSI into the radio’s call list. You would select a working channel, punch the DSC enter button and immediately gain the attention of the bridge watch on the other vessel.

Using this listen-only approach means that while the AIS equipped vessels won’t hear from you, you will know all about them. We believe that just listening (and not talking) is a reasonable way to make use of the system since large ships and tugs are primarily interested in other similar vessels and are unlikely to do much maneuvering to avoid a close call with a recreational vessel. Regardless of the Rules of The Road, we are the ones who will have to maneuver to avoid a collision. However when communication with other nearby vessels is desirable you will know what vessel to hail.

By cooperating with other traffic we minimize everyone’s anxiety. AIS does for marine navigation what the latest radar transponder and collision avoidance equipment does for aviation, reduce the collision risk "pucker factor" to close to zero.