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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
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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
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