Appendix C - Glossary And Navigation Data - Navman TRACKFISH 6500 Installation And Operation Manual

Appendix C - Glossary and navigation data

Glossary
Attention Area - An important area on a chart,
such as a restricted anchorage or a shallow area
(see section 17-2).
Bathymetric line - A depth contour line on
the chart.
Chart card - A plug-in card that stores chart
data for a region (see section 1-3).
C-MAP™ chart card - See Chart card.
C-MAP™ user card - See User card.
Cursor - A symbol on the display (see
section 3-2).
DGPS - Differential Global Positioning System.
A navigation tool based on GPS with some
errors corrected (see section 7).
Goto - A simple way of navigating straight to a
waypoint or to the cursor position (see section
3-1).
GPS - Global Positioning System. A satellite-
based navigation tool (see section 7).
Leg - The straight segments of a route between
waypoints. A route with four waypoints has
three legs.
MOB - Man overboard.
MOB function - Starts navigating back to
the place where someone fell overboard (see
section 2-4).
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NavBus - A way of connecting NAVMAN
instruments together to share data (see section
18-11).
NMEA - National Marine Electronics
Association.
NMEA 0183 - A standard for interfacing marine
electronic devices (see section 18-12).
Route: Two or more waypoints linked in
sequence to form a course for the boat (see
section 6).
User card - A plug-in card that stores
waypoints, routes and tracks (see section 1-2).
UTC - Universal Time Coordinated or
Coordinated Universal Time, which is
a standard world time, formerly called
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Waypoint - A position that you can set on the
TRACKFISH chart, for example a fishing spot or
a point on a route (see section 5).
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