Audience
Anyone wanting to learn how to use CARIS HPD Source Editor for loading, managing and updating features in an HPD database.
Topics Include
- An overview of HPD theory, concepts, data model and programs
- HPD database user accounts and database usages
- Using projects to help manage tasks and workflow in HPD
- Data preparation and loading with the HPD Data Loader program
- An introduction to HPD Source Editor: menus, toolbars, interface
- Controlling the display: viewing, filtering and selecting objects
- Investigating Source Editor Options settings and what these do
- Opening and viewing external vector and raster data files
- Creating new point, sounding, line, area objects in Source Editor
- Further importing options from different vector file formats
- Using Object Import Utility to import data from text, OBDC files
- Creating new feature layers for data import and editing
- Editing objects interactively: insert, move, redigitize, split, trim...
- Other editing tools: divide, intersect, join, merge, filter, smooth...
- Editing spatial and attribute values for multiple features
- Automated topology creation and editing in HPD
- Deleting and undeleting features
- Managing object relationships: masters/slaves, collections
- Creating markers to record comments about objects
- Data validation: running QC tests and resolving errors
- Object certification: verifying attributes & spatial representations
- Viewing HPD object processing history
- Adding representations onto other usages, linking related objects
- Exporting database features to text, vector and raster files
- HPD supporting documents: reference materials and help
- An overview of product creation concepts and workflow in HPD
- A brief look at other topics of interest
Prerequesites
- Familiarity with operating computers and software
- Previous working experience creating digital charts and ENCs
