Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) Production Tools
The Complete Chart Production Solution
The core combination of ENC Designer, ENC Optimizer and 7Cs Analyzer provides all the software tools required to create a wide range of digital nautical-chart products, including ENCs, IENCs, and AMLs.
Further tools and plug-ins, such as the S-57 Writer plug-in for FME from Safe Software, as well as the ENC Referencer, covers standard data-import requirements.
Other tools, such as the ENC Bathymetry Plotter (bathymetric contours), ENC Encryptor and ENC Permit Generator (S-63 encryption and control), cover other key aspects of the workflow involved in chart production and distribution.
ENC Life Cycle
Viewed as a whole, the SevenCs ENC Tools cover the complete ENC life cycle.
ENC Tools: Key Benefits
- A modular software structure that can be easily tailored to requirements,
- Easy-to-use software that does not require an in-depth knowledge of GIS tools, and
- Extremely cost effective, even for smaller, low-volume chart production environments.
Typical Applications
Used by more than 30 hydrographic offices, port authorities and inland waterway authorities worldwide, the ease of use, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of the SevenCs ENC Tools make them ideally suited to low and medium-volume chart production environments, especially where there is a specialist production requirement, such as AML or Port ENCs.
Typical applications and users for the ENC Tools include:
- Small Hydrographic Services
- Port and Harbour Authorities
- Surveying Companies
- Coastal Surveillance Authorities
- Simulation Systems Manufacturers and Integrators
- Military Chart Production Units
