Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006)

A study on the integration of Radar, AIS and ECDIS and the possibility to fusion these information sources has been performed. Within the study operational as well as technical aspects of overlapping information were taken into account. The human factor related operational aspects were especially addressed by an empirical study on the mariners view on the integration. The technical aspects were investigated in detail within the frame of a demanding and exhausting experimental field study on the reliability of and the deviations between AIS and ARPA data. Detailed knowledge about sensor and system characteristics is essential when designing guidelines for presentation of combined Radar, AIS and ECDIS information.