Slovenia becomes 31st member of IC-ENC

IC-ENC is pleased to announce that the Geodetic Institute of Slovenia (GI) has become the 31st National Hydrographic Office to join its ever increasing family of members.

GI plans to release five ENCs over the period to 2016 in the General, Approach and Harbour usage bands. IC-ENC will now be supporting GI, to develop its in-house ENC production capacity, via its Production Support, Independent Validation and Capacity Building (Training) services.


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Philippines becomes 30th member of IC-ENC

IC-ENC is proud to announce that the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) of Philippines has become the 30th National Hydrographic Office to join its rapidly increasing family of members.

NAMRIA has issued ENCs in the General, Approach and Harbour usage bands, which is supplemented by coverage produced by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. IC-ENC will now be supporting NAMRIA, to develop further its in-house ENC production capacity, via its Production Support, Independent Validation and Capacity Building (Training) services. NAMRIA intends to assume production and maintenance responsibilities for approximately 150 ENCs of its national waters and the surrounding area. This is important new coverage in the IC-ENC ENC folio.




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Suriname becomes 29th member of IC-ENC

IC-ENC has great pleasure in announcing that Suriname has now formally joined. This is the 29th nation to join IC-ENC's ever increasing family of member Hydrographic Offices.

Suriname has four ENCs which are produced in co-operation with the Netherlands Hydrographic Office. IC-ENC will be supporting the Maritime Authority of Suriname (MAS) to develop its own ENC production capability. In time, MAS will take over future production and maintenance of the ENCs in this region.


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IC-ENC folio now over 5000 cells

The 28 IC-ENC member nations have recently achieved a significant landmark in their ENC coverage.
By working together (and with the assistance of the IC-ENC RENC) these nations have produced and are maintaining a folio that is now made up of over 5000 ENCs! Each of the co-operating nations has overcome its own unique challenges in order to reach this stage of production.
The combined IC-ENC ENC database with its focus on data quality and consistency will grow further as the members continue with their production schedule and new nations join the IC-ENC RENC.

The sizes of the individual national folios are shown by this graph:




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IC-ENC and PRIMAR present to North Indian Ocean Hydrographic Commission

IC-ENC and PRIMAR delivered a combined RENC presentation to the North Indian Ocean Hydrographic Commission conference in Bangkok on 27th February.



The presentation was well received by the audience of Hydrographic Offices, industry stakeholders and the IHB.
It covered RENC aspects such as membership, operations, data flow and finances. A single combined presentation from both RENCs is part of the continued initiative regarding technical co-operation.


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INAHINA visit IC-ENC UK Office

INAHINA, the National Institute of Hydrography and Navigation of Mozambique, visited IC-ENC this week to discuss their ENC production plans.


Left to right: Richard Fowle, IC-ENC Technical Manager Augusto Jessenao Bata, General Director Humberto Raul Mutevuie, Director of Hydrography and Cartography Service Celia Margarida Magaia, Head of the Cartographic Department Susana Rouque Tembe, Head of the Foreign affairs Department James Harper, IC-ENC General Manager

INAHINA is a long standing member of IC-ENC and is now developing its own national ENC production and maintenance programme.

IC-ENC will be supporting INAHINA’s ambitions via its ENC Production Support service and the IC-ENC ENC Validation training course.

The IC-ENC ENC Validation training course has been developed by IC-ENC’s technical experts. It is designed to train its members’ ENC production departments in all aspects of ENC validation without favouring any one piece of validation software. The pilot course will run in March for selected delegates and be available for other delegates from amongst the IC-ENC membership during 2014. For further details relating to this course please contact Mike Hawes, IC-ENC Data Manager.


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Time Related Object Encoding on ENCs

Arno Meurink, Senior Cartographer at the Netherlands Hydrographic Office, has published an article exploring some of the challenges of encoding time-related objects on ENCs. It is based on his experiences of updating Netherlands ENCs for changes to the routing measures between Texel and North Hinder. These changes took effect at 0000 UTC on 1 August 2013 and were one of the most extensive operations involving route changes in the world to date. Arno highlights the challenges in publishing these changes effectively given differences between different ECDIS displays, and the variation in user training. The article can be read here.

Arno and the Netherlands ENC production team have been supported by IC-ENC for a number of years, his experiences are described here


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Log in to your IC-ENC Account

To log in to your IC-ENC account (Hydrographic Offices (HOs) or Value Added Resellers (VARs)) please follow the process detailed below:

Click on the relevant section of the login area, ie. Hydrographic Offices or VARs.

You will be redirected to the Office365 generic login page. Select the 'Sign in with a Microsoft account' option.

On the sign in screen login with your new username and your existing password.

For VARs please use your existing username suffixed with @outlook.com. If your original username did not begin with 'VAR' then please add 'VAR' as a prefix and @outlook.com as a suffix. This will result in a VAR username of VARxxx@outlook.com.

For HOs please use your existing username with the prefix 'ENC' and the suffix '@outlook.com'. Doing so will provide you with a new usernameENCxxxx@outlook.com.

Tick the 'keep me signed in' box.



If you have any issues with logging in to your account please contact

therenc@ic-enc.org


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IC-ENC Website Launch

IC-ENC are pleased to launch the new and revised www.ic-enc.org.

Greater currency, usability and flexibility will be provided by this site.


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Venezuela visit IC-ENC UK

Venezuela HO visit IC-ENC UK to enhance their ENC capture techniques and to meet the IC-ENC UK Validation team.


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