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Track: Oceanography, Coastal Zone, Marine Resources
Ralf Lindgren
Swedish Maritime Administration
Slottsgatan 82
Norrkoping, S60378
SWEDEN
Telephone: 46-11-191371
Fax: 46-11-133903
E-mail: ralf.lindgren@shipadm.se
Pentti Junni
The Hydrographic Information Systems Project-Cooperation, Concept, and Future
In the world of maritime transport, new technology is rapidly being taken into use for navigation purposes. The main important components in this development are GIS and GPS. Producers of nautical charts are facing the task to deliver their information in a suitable digital form and the demand is increasing. A global standard to define this product (Electronic Nautical Chart-ENC) has been established by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO). The Finnish and Swedish Maritime administrations have been engaged in cooperation since 1994 with the aim to define the next generation information system for management of all the hydrographic and nautical information needed in our products. The paper will present the major steps of our cooperation in design and specification of the Hydrographic Information System (HIS). The system will be described from a conceptual point of view. Future phases of the system implementation will be discussed. Hopefully some "snapshots" showing important properties of
the system can be produced from the ongoing implementation where SDE and ArcView GIS Version 3.0 are important components.
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