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
