An in-depth, hands-on technical introduction to the production, maintenance, S-58 quality assurance and updating of IHO S-57 Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) data, using the desktop CARIS S-57 Composer software.

Audience

Any hydrographic personnel wishing to learn about the IHO S-57 ENC production and maintenance capabilities of the CARIS S-57 Composer software program.

Topics Include

• An introduction to CARIS S-57 Composer: products, layout, basic functions, etc.
• S-57 ENC production workflow options using CARIS S-57 Composer
• ENC data sources: digital nautical charts, raster images, etc.
• Using the S-57 ENC Exchange Set Creation wizard to create products
• Data coding and Catalogue browser for ENC production
• Preprocessing data: filtering lines, copying the geometry, intersecting nodes, change all, deleting and saving products, etc.
• Import selection/Superselection & object creation using lookup tables
• Interactive S-57 ENC object creation grabbing geometry and editing
• Importing background vector data & database information using the Object Import Utility
• Assigning attribute values to S-57 objects
• Using the Quality Assurance tools S-58 effectively in S-57 Composer
• Correcting mistakes reported by Quality Assurance tools
• Exporting validated data to S-57 format files
• Discussion of products, backup, locations of files & procedures during the ENC production
• The ENC product revision cycle and ENC updating scenarios
• Updating ENC data using CARIS S-57 Composer
• Checking and exporting updated ENC information to S-57 format
• Viewing S-57 ENC data using CARIS Easy View
• Supporting documents: reference materials and help

Prerequesites

• Familiarity with operating computers and software
• Familiarity with hydrographic concepts and terminology
• Some previous experience with the S-57 Standard