Maximise mission capabilities with Anschütz Naval Radar NX
Anschütz radar applications provide excellent target detection, filtering and presentation even in the most challenging weather and traffic conditions. A clear and precise radar picture for safe navigation and mission performance is ensured by raw video processing, patented automatic clutter suppression and filtering technology, AIS and ARPA target association, and system-wide target management.
In addition to IMO-compliant functions for essential collision avoidance, Anschütz introduces the Naval Radar NX with a modular range of advanced functions for special mission vessels, coastguards and naval forces.
What are the benefits of Naval Radar NX?
Naval Radar NX can control and display Terma Scanter 2602 and 6002 radars within a fully MED-approved solution for navigation and beyond. These solid-state radars enhance the detection of small targets and target acquisition even in severe weather and sea conditions.
Customers benefit from highly accurate radar performance, providing a more realistic and accurate picture of the situation without the need for a separate surveillance radar station on board or specially trained operators. Instead, Naval Radar NX extends the IMO navigational radar to a dedicated naval perspective, providing a new level of situational awareness and enabling customers to perform all radar-related tasks from navigation to mission in one place.
Naval Radar NX is also easy to use, reducing the need for training and familiarisation, as it uses a well-proven, modern and clear user interface.
What special features does Naval Radar NX offer?
With Naval Radar NX, the traditional navigational radar application becomes more intelligent and integrates additional functions, tasks and overlays previously only known from naval mission systems. The integrated system-wide target management allows target association between tactical targets, the implemented certified ARPA target tracker and AIS targets.
On the radar screen, the user can switch between task-oriented user perspectives to operate the respective functions. For example, in addition to the navigational collision avoidance user interface, other perspectives include helicopter guidance, formation manager and intrusion detection.
Helicopter Guidance allows the user to guide an approaching helicopter crew to the ship's helipad and land-based landing areas using freely configurable landing patterns and grids. This feature also includes helicopter track filtering. The Formation Manager enables users to define arbitrary formation grids for up to 100 ships relative to each other in range and bearing, including configurable alerting and calculation of a course to steer and time to intercept. Geo-zones with integrated alerting, search and rescue, and advanced intercept capabilities are some of the other features of Naval Radar NX.
The Naval Radar NX application also enables perspective integration with video from a fully integrated electro-optical sensor and custom developments.
What options are available for Naval Radar NX?
Naval Radar NX operates as a stand-alone navigation and tactical radar system, well suited for refits, but can also be integrated with Warship Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (WECDIS) and combat management systems. Naval Radar NX is also an integral part of Anschütz’s Warship Integrated Navigation and Bridge Systems (WINBS).
The CAT240 Asterix interface converts radar video to the Asterix CAT-240 standard, allowing high-fidelity radar information to be shared with third-party displays and trackers, such as combat management systems or dedicated systems for surveillance, intrusion detection, oil spill detection radars, weather/wave radars or ice radars. Crews receive complete and consistent information throughout their mission, enabling them to fully assess the situation and optimise their decision-making processes to ensure mission success as well as the safety of their own vessel.
As with the primary navigation radar, third-party applications can use seamless 360° radar video that overcomes blind spots created by superstructures such as cranes, helipads and funnels. The radar video merge function combines video streams using a consistent common reference point, performs advanced paraxial error correction and synchronises pulses. The newly created 360° radar video integrates into the network as a virtual radar transceiver.
Naval Radar NX can share radar targets by console, transceiver or system as required by third-party systems on board. In combination with the radar transceivers, an emission control mode and a pre-trigger-out feature are also available as options for naval vessels and coastguards.