2007-04-01 01:02:25 · 6 answers · asked by paul g 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
National Marine Electronics Association. They develop standards for electronics for the maritime industry. For more info check out their website, http://www.nmea.org .
2007-04-01 01:14:39 · answer #1 · answered by Gopher! 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
National Marine Electronics Association. It is the industry standard for communications between things like GPS and instruments on a boat or ship
2007-04-01 08:14:53 · answer #2 · answered by Professor 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
National Marine Electronics Association. They develop standards for marine electronics manufacturers and run training classes/certifications for dealers and installers. It's kind of like the MECP (Mobile Electronics Certification Program) for car stereo installers.
The NMEA logo on your GPS means that the unit meets certain standards created by NMEA. The most important thing for you to know is that the unit is capable of sending information in a recognizable format to a chart-plotter, radar, computer, or DSC VHF radio, auto-pilot, or any other device that uses GPS coordinates.
2007-04-03 11:48:06 · answer #3 · answered by makewaybass 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NMEA is the National Marine Electronics Association. They issues standards for interfacing marine electronics devices.
2007-04-01 17:34:17 · answer #4 · answered by sailracer25 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
makewaybass has this answer completely right and I've given him a thumbs up rating.
The answer is National Marine Electronics Association.
2007-04-03 20:49:23 · answer #5 · answered by sailingsue 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NMEA is the standard GPS data format. You can hook the serial data output to your gps to any computer, AIS, radar, dsc radio or whatever device that uses gps data for something.
2007-04-01 08:17:37 · answer #6 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋