ENC Sounding Checker

UKHO NAVWARNING (Number: 037/10 Type: NAVAREA)

In February 2010 the UKHO issued a NAVWARNING (Number: 037/10 Type: NAVAREA) regarding the fact that many ECDIS systems will not detect shoal depths encoded using the EXPSOU attribute with the value 2 (i.e. shoaler than range of depth of the surrounding depth area). As a response to this warning SevenCs have created the ENC Sounding Checker that can be used by data producers to batch check their ENCs.
ENC Sounding Checker is a simple command line tool for MS Windows Operating Systems. It can be used to parse a single ENC (S-57 or SevenCs SENC) or multiple ENCs (if operated in batch mode) and check if there are soundings that are shallower than surrounding areas with depths attribution.  ENC Sounding Checker does not modify your ENCs at all. The affected features are reported and can be written to a log file. The log files can either:

- be used as a manual reference for updating ENCs, or

- imported in SevenCs ENC Designer software.

 

ENC Sounding Checker is free of charge. Click here to download your copy.

 

L3 Nautronix ENC cartographer Demo Version

S57 ENC to INT1 Paper Chart production suite

ENC Cartographer, from L3 Nautronix, is the latest member of the SevenCs ENC Tools family, giving you the ability to create and maintain INT1/INT2 compliant paper charts from an S-57 ENC data source.
The application uses the geometry and the associated object and attribute combinations to create the paper chart equivalent of the feature encoded in the ENC.L3 Logo

A fully functional demonstration version is available, this version is locked to the UK Hydrographic Office’s, Micklefirth ENCs/chart.

Windows 2000/XP ENC Cartographer Demo Setup

 
 

Seemyenc 2.0 data viewer

Download now our newly designed free ENC viewer that enables you to load and view:

  • S-57 ENCs edition 3.1 and 3.1.1
     
  • S-57 Inland ENCs edition 1.0, 2.0 and 2.1
     
  • SevenCs SENC format directENC
     
  • SevenCs bathymetric ENCs bENC
     
You can zoom, pan and select different symbology & colours, present a pick report, and analyse the data by evaluating the logfile which is generated during the import of an S-57 file. You can also analyse the reports written by other SevenCs software, like the ENC Analyzer or the ENC Optimizer.

 
  


 
SeeMyDEnc is available for Windows 2000/XP/Vista.

Hardware requirements:
  • Windows 2000/XP/Vista
  • min. 512 MB RAM
  • min. 1 GHz CPU clock rate
  • 50 MB disk space
The software is demo freeware. Technical and software support cannot be given! Error reports and hints are welcome!

Read the SevenCs Demo Software Licence and start Downloading:

Windows setup

 
 

Bathymetric ENCs in SeeMyENC

Whilst regular ENCs comply with the relevant standards for ENC production and quality control, the bathymetry is normally only low resolution data. Therefore, SevenCs have created the concept of a bathymetric ENC (bENC); an S-57 data product that can be created using SevenCs tools from common formats of digital bathymetry and then displayed either on its own or in conjunction with a normal ENC for applications, such as dredging and piloting, that demand high resolution data.

A bENC example is included in your SeeMyENC version. You'll find it in the directory /data/examples.

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