ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
– ECDIS
ANSWER Automatic Identification System (AIS)
APC - ANSWER Appropriate Portfolio of (Up to Date) Paper Charts
ARCS - Answer: Admiralty Raster Chart Service
ARPA - Answer: Automatic Radar Plotting Aid.
ASF - Answer: Additional Secondary Factor
BOYCAR: ANSWER Cardinal Buoy object class acronym in S-57
BOYSHP - ANSWER: Buoy Shape attribute acronym in S-57.
BSB - ANSWER Data Format for Raster Navigational Charts
C/A - ANSWER GPS coarse acquisition signal
CATZOC - ANSWER: Zone of confidence Attribute acronym in S-57
CCRP - Answer: Consistent Common Reference Point
CCRS - Answer: Consistent Common Reference System
CD - Answer Compact Disk
CDMA stands for Code Division Multiple Access (a digital modulation
technique).
CD-ROM - ANSWER Compact Disk is read-only memory.
CM-93 - ANSWER Data Format for Private and SENC Data from Jeppsen
COG - ANSWER Course Overground
, COSPAS-SARSAT - ANSWER Satellite System for EPIRBs
CRT - Answer: Cathode Ray Tube
CS - Answer Galileo Commercial Service.
DGLONASS-ANSWER Differential GLONASS
DGPS = Differential GPS
DR - ANSWER Dead reckoning
DVD-ROM - ANSWER Digital versatile disk. - read-only memory.
EBL - ANSWER: Electronic Bearing Line
ECDIS – an electronic chart display and information system.
ECS - ANSWER Electronic Chart System
EGNOS - ANSWER European Geostationary Overlay Service
eLoran - ANSWER improved Long Range Navigation (system)
ENC - ANSWER Electronic Navigational Chart
EP: ANSWER approximate position
EPIRB - An emergency position identifying radio beacon.
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