Data recorder
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A data recorder is a piece of equipment which records data, and may also be called a data logger.
Examples of data recorders are:
- A flight data recorder (FDR), a piece of recording equipment used to collect specific aircraft performance data. The term may also be used, albeit less accurately, to describe the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), another type of data recording device found onboard aircraft.
- An event data recorder (EDR), a device installed by the manufacturer in some automobiles which collects and stores various data during the timeframe immediately before and after a crash.
- A voyage data recorder (VDR), a data recording system designed to collect data from various sensors on board a ship.