First IC-ENC Validation Training Course in Africa

Between the 11th and 19th of November IC-ENC delivered its first Validation Training Course on the African continent. 11 delegates from 6 ENC producers attended the training course in Alexandria, Egypt.
The course started with ECDIS and how the encoding of ENC cells influences display and the core functionality of this system. Further modules covered the process and resources used for validating ENCs which were reinforced through practical exercises. Finally, a module on future developments covered the new S-100 standards and the group converted an S-57 ENC to the new draft S-101 standard. In addition to the content covered the event provided an excellent oppportunity to build regional connections in support of cooperation and collaboration.

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4th IC-ENC Technical Conference

IC-ENC held its fourth Technical Conference at the end of October. This is an annual event to coordinate best practice and to harmonize ENC production across the 45 IC-ENC member Hydrographic Offices.
This year, the event was hosted by the Panama Canal Authority, and attended by 37 delegates representing 29 IC-ENC members. From the IC-ENC team, the conference covered a range of topics including guidance for High Density (HD) ENCs, gridded ENC schemes and the new S-100 standards.


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IC-ENC Releases 8,000th ENC

IC-ENC Steering Comittee 19 Discussion Papers

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IC-ENC Issues Largest Weekly Release of Data

For your general information, last week IC-ENC issued its largest ever exchange set of weekly ENC data. This included 66 New ENCs - the Solomon Islands, and Russian ENCs (the east coast, where a large re-scheme of data has been achieved, with the small scale Band 2 coverage moving to a grid system).

Our total files released was 379, exceeding by a significant margin the previous highest weekly total of 336. The 2017 weekly average is closer to 250, and 2016's was closer to 170. Although there have been some cancellations of previous coverage in the Solomon Islands and Russian east coast, this new data takes the size of the IC-ENC ENC folio beyond 7,500.

This is a great achievement for the Validation team across all of our offices in making this happen.


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IC-ENC Welcomes Solomon Islands as its 42nd Member

IC-ENC welcomes Solomon Islands, having last week completed the Statement of Intent to Join process. This was achieved through the Australian Hydrographic Service, which is supporting SIMSA in the production and distribution of these ENCs while SIMSA develops its own capabilities. 41 new Solomon Islands ENCs, production code "SB", have now been released through IC-ENC to the VARs.


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IC-ENC Latin America: First Birthday!

To celebrate IC-ENC Latin America's first birthday, the IC-ENC Latin America RENC Group have written a short piece on the achievements, developments and challenges the office has faced since it became fully operational.

Please click on the link below to download the document:

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IC-ENC Technical Conference 2017

The second IC-ENC Technical Conference took place last week in Copenhagen, Denmark. We had 41 attendees representing 32 of our 41 nations. The conference was a great success and some excellent discussions took place over the three days.

A draft version of the conference report will be circulated to the attendees for review shortly. In the meantime, all of the delivered presentations have now been uploaded to the Hydrographic Offices area of the website, under the 'Technical Conference' heading. You will also find the group photo in the same location.

We hope to see you all again at TC03 next year!


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