LCD Marine RADAR is a RADAR system that displays to an LCD Display. LCD
Displays are available in full color or in a monochrome (silver gray and and
dark gray) format.
Black Box
Marine Radar is considered an LCD Marine RADAR because it
typically is ultimately displayed on an LCD Display.
Marine
Radar is a system that uses
electromagnetic waves to identify the range, altitude, direction, or
speed of both moving and fixed objects such as
aircraft, ships, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain.
The term RADAR was coined in 1941 as an
acronym for Radio Detection and Ranging.
The term has since entered the English language as a standard word,
radar, losing the capitalization. Radar was originally called RDF
(Radio Direction Finder) in the United Kingdom.
A radar system has a transmitter that
emits either
microwaves or
radio waves that are reflected by the target and detected by a
receiver, typically in the same location as the transmitter. Although
the signal returned is usually very weak, the signal can be amplified.
This enables radar to detect objects at ranges where other emissions,
such as sound
or
visible light, would be too weak to detect. Radar is used in many
contexts, including
meteorological detection of
precipitation,
measuring ocean surface waves,
air traffic control .
Marine RADAR is available with LCD and CRT Displays. It also available in a
variety of power capacity, range, Frequency, size, features and price. Premier
manufacturers include Furuno,
Raymarine,
Simrad,
JRC,
Si-Tex,
GARMIN, and
ICOM.
