HSA Systems - News 2006

Accelerated “Electronic Navigation Chart” Project Contract signed with the Australian Hydrographic Service

On 21 Dec 2006, the Hydrographer of Australia, CAPT Rod Nairn signed a contract with HSA Systems Pty Ltd for the production of 82 new paper charts, 322 one degree Electronic Navigation Charts (ENC) cells and 38 conversions/remediations of existing charts, to assist in achieving full Electronic Navigation Chart coverage of Australia by 2010. The program will also have the additional benefit of replacing all of Australia’s fathoms charts with up-to-date metric charts. The new charts will be compiled from source material and it is considered to be the single largest chart compilation program ever undertaken world wide.

The contract commenced in January 2007 with an agreed completion date of June 2010. HSA Systems Pty Ltd subcontracted IIC Technologies, an international technology company, to assist them in this contract. The work will be carried out to International Hydrographic Organization charting standards with final validation and quality checking to be undertaken by the AHO.

For further information:

HSA Systems: Sales
Australian Hydrographic Office: LCDR John Sperring on mobile 0407 074 154

ENC Validation – ENC Analyzer 2.4 released. ENC Analyzer checks aligned with S-58 edition 3.0 and can now use customer created rules.

SevenCs and HSA are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of ENC Analyzer, the world’s leading ENC Validation tool. ENC Analyzer now checks edition 3.0 of the IHO’s recommended ENC validation checks, S-58, released February 2007, the new objects and attributes that have been introduced in S-57 edition 3.1.1 plus it allows users to create organisation specific custom rules.

Whilst ENC Analyzer is continually being upgraded to align it with the latest standards, it is also being enhanced to cover all phases of production to ensure
S-57 products are compliant and correct.

Recent enhancements to the application have focused on the distribution and management of data and include:

Consistency of S-57 products is essential. Even though ENC Analyzer uses over 800 ENC checks they do not cover the specific encoding requirements of some producers. It is now possible for organisations to create custom checks and test data using these checks. These checks do not supersede the IHO checks and are reported separately.

For manufacturers of products other than ENCs ENC Analyzer also checks AML edition 1.0, Inland ECDIS edition 1.0.2 and 2.0. These products are automatically identified when loaded and the appropriate checks applied to the cell(s).

Version 2.4 is currently being distributed to clients on support agreements. ENC Analyzer is an integral element of the SevenCs ENC Tools suite but it can also operate independently.

ENC Analyzer has been developed cooperatively between SevenCs and HSA Systems.

More information about ENC Analyzer can be found on the ENC Tools product page.

For further information contact: www.sevencs.com and www.hsa.com.au

Download ENC Analyzer Technical Specification

HYDRO 2007 International Conference on Hydrography - Focus on ASIA: Meeting the Interface Challenges of the Littoral Zone.

HSA Systems is proud to be the Major Supporter of HYDRO 2007. The conference will be held at the Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Australia from the 22nd to the 24th November 2007. The conference is hosted by The Australasian Hydrographic Society, East Australia Region on behalf of The International Federation of Hydrographic Societies.

The aim of the conference is to show how hydrography and hydrographers are meeting the challenge of working in the littoral zone focusing on the Asian region. It is expected that over 300 delegates from the Australian region and overseas will be attending.