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CARIS S-57 Composer

An Introduction

Fredericton – Canada • Heeswijk – The Netherlands • Washington DC – United States • Adelaide – Australia

Key Features

• New CARIS vector desktop editor– The basis of future CARIS desktop vector editing capabilities

• Uses the latest CARIS technologies for Importing, Mapping, Editing, Quality Assurance and Export

– Easily create multiple S-57 dataset formats– ENC (3.1 & 3.1.1)

– AML (1.0 & 2.1)

– IENC (International 2.0 and USACE)

– Users can easily modify, create and add new dataset formats

• Marine Information Overlays (MIO)

• Digital Survey Sheets (DSS)

Support For Many Data Formats

• Open a wide range of file types

• Vector• S-57, VPF, CARIS, HOB, DXF, DGN, SHP ...

• Raster• BSB, HCRF, CRL, ECW, GeoTIFF, TFW,

JPEG2000, MrSID ...

• Grab background geometry or digitise from raster

Product Based

Import and Map to S-57

• User customisable mapping files– DNC > ENC and reverse

– AML 1.0 > 2.1

– CARIS feature to S-57 (fea2obj)

More Tools

• Object Import Utility

• Clip and Copy to Scratch layer

• Extensive Spatial and Object Editing Tools

Validation

• Validation Tests– S-58 and User customisable XML

Future Plans - Version 2.0

– June 2008– Create S-57 Updates and Reissues

– Major rewrite of CARIS S-57 Update creation technology

– ‘Pilot Chart’ Creation– aka BathyENC, High Density ENC etc ...

– Automatic conflation of HPD (‘Base cell’) and BDB (new bathymetry) data into the product

– Automatic connection and extraction from HPD and BDB

– Also used for CLB AMLs

– Create New Edition from ‘template’– Use S-57, HOB or CARIS HOM files to easily start a product

– Populates metadata and imports data ‘ready to go’

Some Future Plans

• Version 3.0– Automatic creation of Meta Objects from external Metadata sources

– GUI Editor for XML support files (catalogues, profiles etc)

– CARIS NoteBook Markers integration

• Version ?– Tight integration with CARIS HPD ENC and AML Editors

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