ENC Tools-

The Efficient S-57 Data

Production
ENC Tools Training 2008
Background
SevenCs ENC Tools are in use since 1995 and they are the
production system of choice in several Hydrographic Offices and
data production companies around the world.
 ENC Designer

ENC Designer Enterprise…

…is the core of SevenCs production suite.

The Enterprise package contains:

ENC Designer

ENC Manager

ENC Referencer

NTX Converter
ENC Designer
Creation and maintenance of S-57 data (ENC, IENC and AML)

Based on SevenCs ECDIS Kernel used in many type-approved

ECDIS systems

Powerful graphical tools and functions to create, edit and modify

objects

User-friendly object and attribute queries

Plot function for visual data verification

Read-only mode for visual data validation

Unparalleled method of uniquely assigned record identifiers

(affords direct access to a potential GIS database)
ENC Designer
ENC Manager- incl. in ENC Designer
Enterprise
Work-flow management environment for the maintenance of S-57
data
Production of new ENCs, IENCs, AMLs, updates, new editions and S-
57 Exchange Sets
Easy data handling organized in a hierarchical database-similar
structure grouped by producing agencies, navigational purposes and
editions
ENCs are assigned to different working stages (edit, update or
validate)
Data production directly out of ENC Manager in SevenCs ENC Designer

Data quality assurance directly out of ENC Manager with SevenCs ENC
Analyzer
ENC Manager- incl. in ENC Designer
Enterprise
ENC Referencer- incl. in ENC Designer
Enterprise

Easy to handle tool that allows to georeference raster data

With this information a geographic position can be calculated for

every point of the image

Allowed image formats:

• BMP (Windows Bitmap)
• PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
• TIF(F) (Tagged Image File Format)

The referenced raster file can be loaded into ENC Designer to

digitize the chart
ENC Referencer- incl. in ENC Designer
Enterprise
ENC Interface
C++ class library for interfacing between S-57 ENC data and other
formats or databases.

Enables programmers to…

… write interface applications

… import or export data from or to database programs

… write converters to or from any related data format

Costfree tool can be downloaded from www.sevencs.com

ENC Optimizer
Powerful tool to enhance the data quality of ENCs

Minimizes memory requirements, maximizes display performance

Automatic correction of digitizing errors, e.g. duplicate geometry, non

significant characters etc.

Startable directly out of SevenCs ENC Designer or as stand-alone

tool
Logfile allows to step through the single optimizations in SevenCs ENC
Designer

Filter function allows to apply single optimization functions to

particular objects
ENC Optimizer
ENC Analyzer
This software is a joint project between HSA Systems Pty Ltd,
Australia and SevenCs GmbH.

Powerful validation tool for S-57 ENC data sets

Performs over 600 checks according to S-58 IHO Recommended ENC

Validation Checks

Can be run as stand-alone tool or directly started out of SevenCs ENC

Designer and ENC Manager

Checking engine provided by HSA Systems, Australia

Logfile allows to step through and correct the single warnings

and errors directly in SevenCs ENC Designer
ENC Analyzer
FME S-57 Writer Plug-in
(Converter)
Plug-in for FME of Safe Software Inc., Vancouver

FME - Integrated collection of Spatial ETL (Extract,

Transform, and Load) tools for data transformation
and data translation.

Supported S-57 products are

ENC (Electronic Navigational Chart)

IENC (Inland ENC)

AML (Additional Military Layers)

ENC Cartographer
This software is a joint project between HSA Systems Pty Ltd,
Australia and SevenCs GmbH.

Derive INT1/INT2 paper chart from one or more S-57 ENC cells

Define multiple panels for paper chart

Creation of Zones of Confidence (ZOC) diagrams using S-57 quality

objects

Support of INT2 borders and graticules

Generation of marginalia and text

Tidal Stream and Compass Rose paper symbols derived from

S-57 objects

Spatial Vector Graphics (SVG) generated file for cartographic

editing
ENC Cartographer
ENC Watermarker
Protects your S-57 ENC data against data piracy

Makes sure your data is always recognisable yours

The original chart is not touched! A replacement data set is generated

containing the digital watermark

Watermarking of individual cells and exchange sets

Checking data sets against the user determined watermarks

Tabulated and graphic display of the results of the watermark check

Any suspicious cell can be put through a correlation test against the user
created watermark profiles stored in a database
ENC Watermarker
ENC Distribution
After the production process the distribution of ENCs is of high
interest for the producer.

SevenCs developed its own set of S-63 encryption and permit

generation tools:

ENC Dispatcher – combines S-57 data sets into ENC Units which
can be named e.g. after a chart area for improved marketing

ENC Server – handles ENC copyprotecting / encrypting and key

management in an integral environment

ENC Master – is the front end to ENC Server and creates S-63
permits and Chart Access Keys for the ENC Units.
 ENC Production
Workflow
with SevenCs ENC Tools
Source Data Capturing or
Conversion
Topo-Hydrographical Data Raster Images
Aerial Photo
Bathymetry (dxf, asc, …)
(tif, png, bmp)
Scanned paper chart
Topography (tif, png, bmp)
(shp, dgn, dxf, …)

Navigational Aids db
(Oracle, MySQL, …)

ENC / IENC
Capturing & Editing of S-57
Data
Powerful graphical tools and
functions to capture, create,
edit or modify objects

Increasing the performance,

Cleaning the cell, SCAMIN
Validation & Verification
(QC)
Verification

Validation

QC passed
NO OK?
YES
ENC Maintenance

ENC Manager controls the

ENC Production Workflow:

Creation of:
Updage files
New editions
Exchange Sets
SevenCs ENC Tools
The next generation
ENC/IENC Managing Concept

Database
ENC Repository
Navaids
Wrecks
Cell access control

• Cell and Db access

• Import Cells
• Creation of new Editions
• Update (ER) Compilation
• S-57 Exchange Set Compilation
• (S-63 Exchange Set Compilation)
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