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www.sea-technology.com March 2016 / st 17 Spike Hughes had a navigating career spanning 13 years in the Merchant and Royal Navies. In 1998, he joined Kelvin Hughes as area sales manager. In 2001, he became general manager of the Asia Pacifc busi- ness, and he has held a board position as sales and marketing director since 2007. Mark Bown is group marketing manager at Kelvin Hughes and has been with the company for fve years, working across the group but with a key focus on developing the surveillance and security market channels. He has 20 years of experience working in the defense, oil and gas, and maritime industries. that can meet type approval but cannot provide the capa- bilities that a modern navy requires, SharpEye delivers both in a cost-effective upmast package—which explains why 25 of the world's navies are now operating SharpEye radar on frigates, corvettes, offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) and land- ing helicopter docks. Doubling as a navigation and collision avoidance sys- tem, providing tactical capability to the command, SharpEye radar technology meets the detection challenges of navies, coast guards and border agencies through a combination of radar techniques designed to provide the best performance in all conditions, while also allowing for optimization for specifc detection needs. SharpEye transmits a low-power, patented sequence of short-, medium- and long-range pulses. This enables the sys- tem to simultaneously provide multiple operators with the optimum picture regardless of the radar range scale they are using. The radar's low power output also reduces the prob- ability of detection by ESM equipment. Further Developments Kelvin Hughes has a continual program of innovation and development to exploit both the increasing processing capacity becoming available and the reduction in compo- nent costs. This enables the company to bring technologies to market that were previously unaffordable in the naviga- tion and surveillance markets. In addition, ChartCo, part of the Kelvin Hughes Group and the world's oldest and largest distributor of navigational data, nautical charts, marine technical publications and dig- ital products, continues to expand its voyage compliance software products and services, in particular, PassageMan- ager, a passage planning and chart management software platform. ST "SharpEye transmits a low-power, patented sequence of short-, medium- and long-range pulses."