"Taking
Electronic Navigation into entirely new dimensions for Channel Patrol and
beyond."
| Our Mississippi River
Channel Patrol Charting Program provides a visual representation of
GPS position on a graphic vector background generated from Navigation
charts for the Mississippi River. These color-filled vector-based
background graphics have the image quality of scanned maps, but do not
pixelize or break-up as the view is zoomed in. Also, all map management
functions are handled by the program based upon the current GPS position.
The appropriate map is loaded automatically when the program is started
and maps are switched automatically when the GPS position leaves the
currently displayed map.
Computer-Assisted tools are provided for recording the positions of navigation aids, buoys, wrecks, bank failures, shoaling areas and other objects of interest using map symbols defined by the user. These objects of interest are stored in an attached ACCESS database containing not only the objects current position, but also the complete past history of past positions which may have been recorded. Both point objects and areas can be placed using either GPS coordinates or free digitized using the mouse. An on-board fathometer interface allows depth data to be collected at user-specified distance or time intervals. The depth data of objects and digitized areas are stored in the database record along with position. Collected fathometer data is stored as individual jobs and can be viewed or exported for further analysis.
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