DEFSTAN 21-26(PT1)/1(2000) : 2000
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REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF SHIPBOARD DATA PARAMETERS - PART 1: STANDARD UNITS, PARAMETER REPRESENTATION AND ELEMENT FORMATTING
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English
01-04-2000
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CONTENTS
SECTION 1 - STANDARD UNITS OF MEASURE
1.1 SI Units
1.2 Units of Angular Measure
1.3 Units of Time
1.4 Units for Ordinal Date
1.5 Units for Time of the Day
1.6 Cartesian Measurement Conventions
1.7 Orientation of an Object
1.8 Reference Plane
1.9 Orientation of an Object Relative to the
Surface of the Earth
1.10 Linear Measure
1.11 Angular Measure
1.12 Position of an Object on the Surface of
the Earth
SECTION 2 - DATA PARAMETER REPRESENTATION
2.1 General
2.2 Fixed Point Representation
2.3 Reference Byte
2.4 Byte Offset
2.5 Integers
2.6 Sign Convention
2.7 Floating Point Representation
2.8 Alphanumeric Representation
2.9 BCD Representation
2.10 Discrete Representation
2.11 Single-bit Discrete Data
2.12 Multi-bit Discrete Data
SECTION 3 - DATA ELEMENT FORMATTING
3.1 General
3.2 Fixed Point Data Element Formatting
3.3 Floating Point Data Element Formatting
3.4 Alphanumeric Data Element Formatting
3.5 BCD Data Element Formatting
3.6 Discrete Data Element Formatting
3.7 Format of Ordinal Date
3.8 Format of Time of the Day
ANNEX A - RELATED DOCUMENTS
ANNEX B - DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS
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