The implementation of digital moving map systems (DMS) aboard tactical naval aircraft has resulted in a dramatic shift from the use of paper charts to digital chart products for naval mission planning and navigation. A DMS computer stores all of the digital maps that are required for a particular mission and displays up-to-date threats, intelligence, or other information as pilot-selected overlays to the base chart. An effective DMS provides pilots with precise, hands-off route selection and navigation information (Fig. 8). The DMS that is currently used on AV-8B Harriers and F/A-18 Hornets was originally designed for night-attack air missions, since the system provides valuable positional information when visual flight navigation is limited. In direct support of these navigation and mission planning systems, the Naval Research Laboratory-Stennis Space Center (NRL-SSC) is developing the Compressed Aeronautical Chart (CAC) database 1.... Digital maps, Optical storage, Databases, Data compression.
U.S. Navy's Compressed Aeronautical Chart Database. (Reannouncement with New Availability Information)
1993
5 pages
Report
No indication
English
Cartography , Avionics , Navigation Systems , Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Information Systems , Charts , Data bases , Data compression , Digital maps , Computers , Flight , Missions , Naval aircraft , Naval research laboratories , Night , Optical storage , Overlays , Pilots , Selection , Threats , Tactical aircraft , Naval intelligence , Reprints , Naval planning , DMS(Digital Moving Map Systems) , Military equipment , Air navigation
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