Digital Audio Recorders: Life Savers, Educators, and Vindicators

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it” (George Santayana). What better records of the past are there than those made by recording devices such as the U.S. Navy’s recently developed RD-674A/UNH and RD-681/UNH digital audio recorders? The use of recorders has increased dramatically as the value of recording devices for training and accident investigation and prevention has come to be recognized by both the government and the private sector. The transition from mechanical-based recorders to Personal Computer (PC) based recorders has greatly increased the flexibility and utility of today’s modern recorder. The simple, single-channel audio signal recorders of the past have been superceded by today’s complex multi-channel, analog and digital data recorders, which provide multi-channel simultaneous playback and recording of both digital and analog data. In addition to the ability to store massive amounts of data, this state-of-the-art technology has allowed the Navy’s recorders to evolve from simple documentors of “what was said” to instrumental life-saving tools, educators, simulators, vindicators in the courtroom, and documentors.

• Record URL:
  http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/reports/1999/RP9901.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  National Transportation Safety Board

  490 L'Enfant Plaza, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20594

  International Transportation Safety Association

  Apeldoorn,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Durkin, Matthew
• Conference:
  • Transportation Recording: 2000 and Beyond. International Symposium on Transportation Recorders
  • Location: Arlington VA, United States
  • Date: 1999-5-3 to 1999-5-5
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: pp 140-144
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Transportation Recorders. Transportation Recording: 2000 and Beyond, May 3-5, 1999, Arlington, Virginia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash investigation; Digital audio; Education; Event data recorders; Evidence; Personal computers; Prevention; Search and rescue operations; Training; Water transportation crashes
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Law; Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01088099
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 30 2008 12:31PM