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Operators Manual
ECDIS EC1000
Demo
By Furuno Finland Oy
801014
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Contents
Changes since release 04.01 1
Overall operation related changes....................................................................................... 1
Chart related changes.......................................................................................................... 2
Display alternatives ............................................................................................................2
Changes since release 04.00 3
Overall operation related changes....................................................................................... 3
Chart related changes.......................................................................................................... 3
Changes since release 03.02 4
Overall operation changes ..................................................................................................4
Changes since release 03.01 5
Overall operation related changes....................................................................................... 5
Chart related changes.......................................................................................................... 6
Changes since release 03.00 7
Overall operation related changes....................................................................................... 7
Changes since release 02.02 8
Overall operation related changes....................................................................................... 8
Chart related changes........................................................................................................ 10
Display alternatives ..........................................................................................................10
Changes since release 02.01 11
Overall operation related changes..................................................................................... 11
Chart related changes........................................................................................................ 12
Introduction 13
System Configuration .......................................................................................................13
How to read this manual ................................................................................................... 14
ECDIS Screen 15
Overview ..........................................................................................................................15
Electronic chart area ......................................................................................................... 16
Electronic charts in ECDIS ................................................................................16
Upper statusbar .................................................................................................................18
List of Indications on Upper Status bar ..............................................................18
Lower Status bar............................................................................................................... 20
Dialogbox area..................................................................................................................20
Information Area ..............................................................................................................21
Control Panel 23
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Overview .......................................................................................................................... 23
Operative push buttons ..................................................................................................... 24
Direct function push buttons............................................................................................. 24
Menu push buttons............................................................................................................ 26
INFO & HELP pushbutton ............................................................................................... 35
Standby mode 37
Switch ON and OFF ......................................................................................................... 37
Set up before departure 39
Update Chart material....................................................................................................... 39
Display and Approve date for S57 charts and manual updates......................................... 39
Create or update User chart ..............................................................................................39
Create or update Reference targets ................................................................................... 39
Create or update Pilot data ............................................................................................... 40
Set Chart Alarm calculation.............................................................................................. 40
Set Depth alarm limit for Echo Sounder........................................................................... 40
Create or update Route ..................................................................................................... 41
Check your route against Chart Alarms.............................................................. 41
Recalculate timetable and ETA values............................................................... 42
Check and prepare Route to be monitored........................................................................ 43
Select To Waypoint............................................................................................ 43
Select Final Waypoint ........................................................................................ 43
Center line for ARPA radar................................................................................ 43
Channel borders for ARPA radar ....................................................................... 43
Use Checked conditions of the Route Plan ........................................................ 44
Use planned User Chart...................................................................................... 44
Use planned Pilot Data....................................................................................... 45
Verify configuration of navigation sensors....................................................................... 46
Verify source of navigation sensors ...................................................................46
Verify SPEED settings ....................................................................................... 46
Verify RADAR settings......................................................................................46
Verify GYRO settings........................................................................................ 46
Verify POSITION sensors ................................................................................. 47
Verify KALMAN FILTER.................................................................................47
Verify ALIGNMENT......................................................................................... 47
Reset Distance and Trip Counters ....................................................................................48
Verify Datum....................................................................................................................48
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Conditions required to replace paper charts 49
Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 49
How to detect ENC coverage in S57 Chart display .......................................................... 52
Vector Chart material 55
Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 55
S57 Charts ........................................................................................................................55
Introduction........................................................................................................ 55
Chart legend of S57 chart................................................................................... 57
Permanent warnings of S57 charts ..................................................................... 58
How to load S57 charts..................................................................................................... 59
Flow chart of the loading of S57 Charts into ECDIS ......................................... 59
How to load S57 charts from a CD-ROM, floppy or LAN ................................ 61
How to load S57 charts, which are not fully compliant with the standards........ 67
S57 SENC Conversion details .......................................................................................... 68
How to make SENC conversion faster ............................................................... 68
How to select automatic SENC conversion and Display Until date ................... 68
How to view progress of SENC conversion ....................................................... 69
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How to use Failed SENC conversion window.................................................... 70
How to use SENC Conversion history log .........................................................71
How to use SENC convert window to initiate SENC conversion.......................73
Some features of Chart Plan menu....................................................................................74
Overview of Chart Plan menu ............................................................................ 74
Catalogue of S57 cells........................................................................................ 76
Group of S57 Chart cells ....................................................................................77
How to view status and date dependency of S57 Chart cells and their updates.. 81
How to later use CD Catalogue created during load of S57 charts..................... 82
How to remove S57 Charts from the system ......................................................83
Introduction to the S57 chart service from a RENC .........................................................84
Introduction ........................................................................................................84
Permits................................................................................................................84
Product List ........................................................................................................ 84
Authentication ....................................................................................................84
Available service types....................................................................................... 85
Subscription types ..............................................................................................85
Service provided by a RENC............................................................................................86
How to view the Coverage of the RENC service................................................86
How to know up-to-date status of a chart from a RENC .................................... 87
How to know up-to-date status of the RENC Product List.................................88
How to manage Permits from a RENC...............................................................89
How to manage Public key from a RENC..........................................................90
CD-ROM service from a RENC....................................................................................... 91
How to get started with S57 charts using a RENC .............................................91
How to keep S57 charts up to date using a RENC .............................................92
How to enlarge chart coverage using a RENC ...................................................93
A BASE CD-ROM from a RENC...................................................................... 94
An UPDATE CD-ROM from a RENC...............................................................96
How to view Coverage of a BASE or UPDATE CD-ROM from a RENC ........98
A Permit CD-ROM or floppy disk from the RENC ...........................................99
RENC security system.................................................................................................... 101
Standard messages in S57 Chart Load..............................................................101
Additional messages in S57 Chart Load........................................................... 101
Standard messages in S57 SENC conversion ................................................... 103
Additional messages in S57 SENC conversion ................................................ 103
Vector chart display........................................................................................................104
How to select Vector chart material in use ....................................................... 104
How to select charts for viewing ......................................................................104
How to select a chart by its name on display.................................................... 105
Control of visible chart features .......................................................................106
Display Base..................................................................................................... 109
Control of visible navigation features...............................................................109
Store and recall of Chart Display Settings for visible chart and navigational
features .............................................................................................................112
Sailing directions, Tidal tables etc. features of Vector charts .........................................113
Date dependent and periodical features of Vector chart .................................................114
Introduction ......................................................................................................114
How to approve and highlight Vector chart updates ........................................114
How to set Display Until date...........................................................................115
How to set Approve Until date ......................................................................... 115
A little learning about date dependency of S57 standard ................................. 116
Symbology used in Vector charts ................................................................................... 121
How to change presentation library used for Vector chart features.................. 121
Request information about Vector chart objects............................................................. 122
How to set visible Vector chart features...........................................................122
How to select desired object from the list of found objects..............................122
How to view properties of a Vector chart object ..............................................123
A little learning about Vector Chart coding......................................................124
Seldom used features of Vector charts............................................................................ 130
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Cell Status ........................................................................................................ 130
S57 Cell Details................................................................................................ 130
How to use Cell Status window to initiate SENC conversion .......................... 131
Raster Chart material 133
ARCS Charts .................................................................................................................. 133
Chart legend of ARCS chart............................................................................. 133
T&P Notices, Details and Warnings of ARCS................................................. 134
Datum and ARCS Charts................................................................................................ 137
Difference between ARCS chart local datum and positions in WGS84 datum 137
Permanent warnings of ARCS.......................................................................... 142
ARCS chart managing.................................................................................................... 143
Chart plan......................................................................................................... 143
Subscription of ARCS .................................................................................................... 144
ARCS Navigator ..............................................................................................144
ARCS skipper................................................................................................... 144
ARCS licence information ...............................................................................144
How to get started with ARCS charts............................................................... 145
How to load chart permits for ARCS Navigator license................................... 146
How to load chart permits for ARCS Skipper license ...................................... 147
How to remove chart permits ........................................................................... 148
How to load a new ARCS chart into the system............................................... 149
How to update ARCS chart .............................................................................. 152
How to view chart load and update history of ARCS....................................... 154
How to view update status of your ARCS charts..............................................155
ARCS Catalogue .............................................................................................. 156
Group of ARCS charts .....................................................................................158
How to remove ARCS chart from the system................................................... 162
ARCS chart display ........................................................................................................ 163
How to select ARCS chart material on display ................................................163
How to select used Datum................................................................................ 163
How to view different charts ............................................................................ 165
How to select an ARCS chart by its number on display................................... 167
Control of visible chart features ....................................................................... 168
Control of visible navigation features ..............................................................172
Store and recall of Chart Display Settings for visible chart and navigational
features............................................................................................................. 175
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Manual Updates 177
Introduction .................................................................................................................... 177
Which symbols to use with Manual Updates.................................................................. 178
Display of Manual Updates ............................................................................................ 178
How to control visibility of Orange symbols from Manual Updates................ 178
How to control visibility of True symbols from Manual Updates.................... 178
Control of date dependency of Manual updates ............................................................. 179
How to set current date for viewing .................................................................179
Use of Manual Update editor with Orange symbols....................................................... 180
Manual Update Planning.................................................................................. 180
How to insert a new Orange symbols............................................................... 181
How to delete existing Orange symbol............................................................. 183
How to edit position of an Orange symbols .....................................................184
Use of Manual Update editor with True symbols ........................................................... 187
Manual Update Planning.................................................................................. 187
How to delete existing chart object ..................................................................188
How to modify existing chart object ................................................................189
How to insert a new chart object ...................................................................... 190
How to edit properties of a manual update chart object ...................................196
Seldom used features of Manual updates........................................................................ 199
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How to check in details the creation and usage history of manual updates ......199
Chart Alarms 201
General ...........................................................................................................................201
Chart alarms.................................................................................................................... 202
How to select safety contour ............................................................................202
How to select objects used in Chart Alarms ..................................................... 203
How to highlight Chart Alarm.......................................................................... 205
How to include User Chart Symbols, Lines and Areas in Chart Alarm.......................... 205
How to activate own ship check .....................................................................................207
Route planning................................................................................................................ 209
How to find Chart Alarms leg by leg................................................................210
How to find Chart Alarms by their category.....................................................211
Route monitoring............................................................................................................ 212
Chart Alarm using ARCS charts..................................................................................... 213
Navigation tools 215
Display mode and Orientation of Chart ..........................................................................215
How to select desired Display Mode and orientation of Chart .........................216
Navigation marks............................................................................................................ 217
How to move EBL............................................................................................ 218
How to move VRM ..........................................................................................218
How to move Reference point.......................................................................... 218
Route planning 221
Introduction ....................................................................................................................221
Route planning main menu............................................................................................. 222
Select datum ...................................................................................................................223
How to create a new route ..............................................................................................224
Introduction of Waypoint sheet ........................................................................225
Introduction of Alarms sheet ............................................................................ 226
Introduction of Check sheet.............................................................................. 227
Introduction of Parameter sheet........................................................................ 228
Introduction of Prepare sheet ........................................................................... 229
How to modify already existing route.............................................................................230
Parameters ........................................................................................................ 230
How to select waypoint to be modified ............................................................230
Change waypoint position ................................................................................231
Change other waypoint data .............................................................................232
Add a new waypoint in the end of a route ........................................................233
Insert a waypoint .............................................................................................. 233
Delete a waypoint.............................................................................................233
Import waypoint from other routes................................................................... 234
Reverse sailing order of a route........................................................................ 234
Geometry check of route .................................................................................. 234
Optimization ................................................................................................................... 235
Available Optimization strategies.....................................................................235
How to optimize ............................................................................................... 235
How to plan a speed profile..............................................................................236
Backup to floppy ............................................................................................................237
Restore from floppy........................................................................................................237
Move to planning or navigation station ..........................................................................237
Read from planning or navigation station.......................................................................237
WP table report............................................................................................................... 237
How to change font of report............................................................................ 238
Full WP report ................................................................................................................ 238
Passage Plan report......................................................................................................... 239
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Route monitoring 241
Introduction .................................................................................................................... 241
How to select route to be monitored............................................................................... 242
How to select To waypoint............................................................................................. 243
How to select Final waypoint ......................................................................................... 243
How to view waypoint information ................................................................................ 243
Display of the route on the electronic chart screen......................................................... 244
Display of the route on the ARPA radar screen.............................................................. 244
Route assistant................................................................................................................ 245
How to monitor route .....................................................................................................247
How to ask ETA ............................................................................................................. 248
Route monitoring related alarms..................................................................................... 250
User chart control 251
Introduction .................................................................................................................... 251
Objects of User Chart....................................................................................... 251
Modes of User Chart ........................................................................................ 252
What is a User Chart Point and for which purpose it is used ? ....................................... 254
Select datum ................................................................................................................... 256
How to select User Chart for Monitor mode .................................................................. 256
How to select User Chart for Plan mode ........................................................................257
How to create User Chart ...............................................................................................258
Introduction of Point sheet ............................................................................... 259
Introduction of Symbol sheet ........................................................................... 260
Introduction of Line sheet ................................................................................261
Introduction of Tidal sheet ............................................................................... 262
Introduction of Area Sheet ............................................................................... 263
Add a new Point, Symbol, Line or Tidal to User chart .................................... 266
How to select Point, Symbol, Line or Tidal to be modified ............................. 266
Change position of Point, Symbol, Line or Tidal............................................. 266
Change other data of Point, Symbol, Line or Tidal .......................................... 267
Delete a Point, Symbol, Line or Tidal.............................................................. 267
Import Points, Symbols, Lines or Tidals from other User chart ....................... 268
How to join two or more User Charts together............................................................... 269
Display on ECDIS screen ............................................................................................... 270
Backup to floppy ............................................................................................................273
Restore from floppy........................................................................................................ 273
Move to planning or navigation station .......................................................................... 273
Read from planning or navigation station....................................................................... 273
How to load User Chart in the old Vector system format............................................... 273
How to save User Chart in the old Vector system format............................................... 273
Point report ..................................................................................................................... 274
Line report ...................................................................................................................... 275
Area Object report .......................................................................................................... 275
Symbols report................................................................................................................ 276
Full report....................................................................................................................... 276
Report for Radar ............................................................................................................. 277
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Reference Targets 279
Introduction .................................................................................................................... 279
Modes of Reference Target .............................................................................. 280
How to select Reference target for Monitor mode.......................................................... 282
How to select Reference Target for Plan mode ..............................................................283
How to create Reference Target .....................................................................................284
Introduction of Target sheet ............................................................................. 285
Add a new Reference target record ..................................................................286
How to select Reference target to be modified ............................................................... 287
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Change Reference target position.....................................................................287
Change other data of Reference target..............................................................287
Delete a Reference target record ......................................................................288
Import record of Reference target from other chart..........................................288
Associated alarms ........................................................................................................... 289
Backup to floppy ............................................................................................................289
Restore from floppy........................................................................................................289
Move to planning or navigation station ..........................................................................289
Read from planning or navigation station.......................................................................289
How to load Reference Targets in the old Vector system format ...................................289
How to save Reference Targets in the old Vector system format ...................................289
Reference target report ...................................................................................................290
Pilot Data 291
Introduction ....................................................................................................................291
Modes of Pilot Data.......................................................................................... 292
How to use normally....................................................................................................... 293
How to select Pilot Data for Monitor mode.................................................................... 294
Introduction of View sheet ...............................................................................295
Introduction of Current sheet............................................................................ 295
How to select Pilot Data for Plan mode.......................................................................... 296
Introduction of Edit sheet .................................................................................297
How to create a new Pilot data .......................................................................................298
Add new Pilot Data record ............................................................................... 298
How to select Pilot Data record to be modified................................................299
Change Pilot data record position..................................................................... 299
Change other data of Pilot Data record ............................................................ 299
Delete a Pilot Data record ................................................................................299
Import Pilot data from other routes ..................................................................300
Backup to floppy ............................................................................................................300
Restore from floppy........................................................................................................300
Move to planning or navigation station ..........................................................................300
Read from planning or navigation station.......................................................................300
Pilot Data report .............................................................................................................300
Backup Operations 301
Introduction ....................................................................................................................301
How to find out right file category..................................................................................302
How to make a copy of file............................................................................................. 302
How to copy a file to an other name ............................................................................... 303
Backup to floppy ............................................................................................................303
Restore from floppy........................................................................................................303
How to delete file ...........................................................................................................303
Move to planning or navigation station ..........................................................................303
Read from planning or navigation station.......................................................................304
How to load chart and route files in the old Vector system format................................. 304
How to save chart and route files in the old Vector system format.................................304
How to save route as ASCII text file ..............................................................................305
How to restore route from ASCII text file ......................................................................305
Backup of chart material................................................................................................. 306
Restore of chart material................................................................................................. 307
Common Reference System 309
Introduction ....................................................................................................................309
Control of common reference system ............................................................................. 310
Shared Alarm management...............................................................................310
Harmonised databases on Workstations ...........................................................311
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Shared User selections ..................................................................................... 312
Usage rights.................................................................................................................... 313
How to set Usage rights as MASTER .............................................................. 313
How to set Usage rights as MULTI or SLAVE................................................ 313
How to set Usage rights as PLAN.................................................................... 314
Sensor source for the System.......................................................................................... 315
Mode of Workstations .................................................................................................... 316
How to change Mode to Single or Multi workstation....................................... 316
Troubleshooting.............................................................................................................. 317
What to do if pending Access Server window remains on screen .................... 317
Access Server log............................................................................................. 318
Human Interface log......................................................................................... 318
Navigation Sensors 319
How to select Navigation sensors................................................................................... 319
How to set initial value of a Gyro1................................................................... 320
Source of position........................................................................................................... 324
Primary and Secondary position of own ship .................................................................325
Position discrepancy alarm............................................................................................. 325
Source of SOG, COG, speed, heading, rot, drift and docking speed components .......... 326
Alarm related to SOG, COG, speed, heading, rot, drift and docking speed
components ......................................................................................................328
Double Gyro interface for DNV NAUT-AW ................................................................. 329
Indication of gyro source.................................................................................. 329
Associated alarms............................................................................................. 330
Filter Operation ..............................................................................................................331
Filter and automatic Route Steering ................................................................. 331
How to use position alignment ....................................................................................... 333
Position alignment by means of the ECDIS ..................................................... 333
How to reset position alignment....................................................................... 334
Position alignment by means of the ARPA radar............................................. 335
Gyro error correction...................................................................................................... 337
How to enable Gyro error correction ............................................................... 338
Use Reference targets for automatic Gyro error correction.............................. 340
Wind sensor.................................................................................................................... 341
Depth sensor ................................................................................................................... 342
Sensor related alarms...................................................................................................... 343
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ARPA Target functions 345
Display of ARPA radar targets ....................................................................................... 345
Display of dangerous ARPA radar targets........................................................ 345
Display of lost ARPA radar targets .................................................................. 346
Display of True or Relative speed vectors ....................................................... 346
Display of ARPA target data .......................................................................................... 347
How to view ARPA target tracking data of normal targets .............................. 347
How to view ARPA target tracking data of reference targets........................... 348
Source of ARPA radar targets ........................................................................................350
Source of ARPA radar targets related alarms................................................... 350
Display ARPA target past positions ...............................................................................351
ARPA Target recording functions .................................................................................. 352
Using ARPA targets for chart align................................................................................ 352
Using ARPA targets for position calculation.................................................................. 352
Using ARPA targets for gyro error correction................................................................ 352
AIS target functions 353
Introduction .................................................................................................................... 353
Display of AIS target...................................................................................................... 354
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Display of dangerous AIS targets..................................................................... 355
Display of lost AIS targets................................................................................355
Display of True or Relative speed vectors........................................................ 355
Maximum count and range for displaying AIS targets on ECDIS.................... 355
Source of AIS targets related alarm.................................................................. 356
Display of AIS target data ..............................................................................................356
Display of AIS interface status ....................................................................................... 358
Radar Echo Overlay 359
Introduction ....................................................................................................................359
How to activate radar echo overlay on the ECDIS .........................................................360
Source of radar echo overlay .......................................................................................... 360
Display modes of radar echo overlay ...............................................................361
How to adjust radar echo overlay visual image ..............................................................362
Radar overlay source ........................................................................................ 362
Gain.................................................................................................................. 362
Sea clutter filter ................................................................................................362
Rain clutter filter ..............................................................................................363
Echo trail time and trail presentation mode ...................................................... 363
Interference reject............................................................................................. 364
Noise display .................................................................................................... 364
Transparency ....................................................................................................364
Echo Stretch .....................................................................................................365
Echo Overload situation ................................................................................... 365
How to adjust radar echo overlay to match positions of chart features........................... 366
Error sources of radar echo image and chart display miss match .....................366
Error sources of radar echo image and display of ARPA target miss match .... 366
How to adjust bearing error.............................................................................. 367
How to adjust position error ............................................................................. 368
Recording functions 369
Introduction ....................................................................................................................369
Events and Man Over Board functions ........................................................................... 369
Voyage recording ...........................................................................................................370
Details log ........................................................................................................370
Voyage log .......................................................................................................371
Danger targets log ............................................................................................374
How to save past track of a selected ARPA or AIS target................................ 375
Chart usage log.................................................................................................376
How to print Details, Voyage or Danger Targets log ....................................... 376
How to make backup copy from Details, Voyage or Danger Targets log ........378
How to reset Voyage and Danger Targets logs ................................................378
How to make an User chart from the log (Past track)....................................... 379
Alarms log........................................................................................................ 380
Distance and Trip counters ............................................................................................. 381
How to reset distance counter and trip counter................................................. 381
Datum 383
General ...........................................................................................................................383
Paper charts ....................................................................................................................383
Electronic sea charts ....................................................................................................... 383
Positioning devices and Datum....................................................................................... 383
ECDIS and Datum .......................................................................................................... 384
ECDIS and user selectable local Datum ......................................................................... 384
Parameters setup 385
Parameters ......................................................................................................................385
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How to access to installation parameters.......................................................... 386
How to select Datum ........................................................................................ 386
Navigation parameters setting .......................................................................... 387
Optimization parameters setting....................................................................... 390
Colour Calibration 391
Settings of colour calibration.......................................................................................... 391
Colour test for ARCS charts............................................................................. 391
Colour Differentiation test for S57 charts ........................................................392
Grey Scale test.................................................................................................. 393
Alarms 395
Overview ........................................................................................................................ 395
Alarms generated by Navigation Calculation ................................................................. 395
Alarms generated by Chart Calculation.......................................................................... 395
Alarms generated by Steering Calculation...................................................................... 395
Description of the alarm priority system.........................................................................396
List of alarms.................................................................................................................. 397
List of Navigation alarms................................................................................. 397
List of Chart alarms.......................................................................................... 408
Definition of Terms 409
List of terms.................................................................................................................... 409
Appendix 1 413
IHO ECDIS chart 1 ........................................................................................................ 413
Appendix 2 419
Short introduction to interpret display of S57 charts ...................................................... 419
Paper Chart or Simplified Symbols.................................................................. 419
Two colour or Multi colour Depth ...................................................................419
Plain or Symbolised Boundaries ......................................................................420
Limited or Full Light sectors............................................................................ 420
Shallow, Safety and Deep Contours................................................................. 420
Shallow pattern................................................................................................. 421
Sheet Standard: Unknown object or Presentation ............................................ 421
Sheet Standard: Chart data coverage................................................................ 422
Sheet Standard: Land features.......................................................................... 422
Sheet Standard: Water and seabed features ...................................................... 422
Sheet Standard: Traffic routes.......................................................................... 423
Sheet Standard: Cautionary areas..................................................................... 423
Sheet Standard: Information areas.................................................................... 423
Sheet Standard: Buoys and beacons ................................................................. 424
Sheet Standard: Lights...................................................................................... 424
Sheet Standard: Fog signals ............................................................................. 424
Sheet Standard: Radars..................................................................................... 424
Sheet Standard: Services .................................................................................. 425
Sheet Other: Information about chart data ....................................................... 425
Sheet Other: Land features ............................................................................... 425
Sheet Other: Soundings.................................................................................... 426
Sheet Other: Depth contours, current magnetic................................................ 426
Sheet Other: Seabed and Obstructions .............................................................426
Sheet Other: Services and small craft facilities ................................................ 427
Sheet Other: Special areas................................................................................ 427
Sheet Other: Additional information available................................................. 427
Sheet Other: Important text .............................................................................. 428
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Sheet Other: Other text.....................................................................................428
Appendix 3 431
C-MAP Charts ................................................................................................................431
Introduction ......................................................................................................431
S57 Chart Legend with C-MAP charts............................................................. 431
S57 chart managing with C-MAP charts.........................................................................432
Licence system used by the C-MAP................................................................. 432
How to get started with C-MAP charts.............................................................432
How to keep up to date your C-MAP charts..................................................... 432
How to define subscription of C-MAP charts...................................................432
How to load C-MAP charts from a CD into the system....................................437
Use of CD Catalogue........................................................................................ 441
Catalogue of S57 cells with C-MAP charts ...................................................... 442
Group of S57 cells with C-MAP charts............................................................ 444
How to make conversion into SENC and set display date automatically with C-
MAP charts....................................................................................................... 447
How to remove C-MAP charts from the system............................................... 447
How to view status and history of C-MAP charts by a group...........................448
Appendix 4 449
Route backup & restore in ASCII format .......................................................................449
An example to move ECDIS Route data into an Excel file .............................. 450
An example to move Route data from Excel file into ECDIS ..........................451
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Changes since release 04.01
Overall operation related changes
Following alarms have been made available for recording into the Voyage log:
· 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2478, 2480, 2488, 2489, 2492, 2493, 2494, 2495, 2496, 2497 2498, 2498, 2501,
2503, 2504, 2505, 2506, 2507, 2509, 4027, 4028, 4029, 4030, 4031, 4033, 4034, 4036, 4037 and 4055
Following alarms have been removed from recording into the Voyage log:
· 2471 and 3201
Changed behaviour for following alarms
· Alarm "2010 Filter: Pos source change" : Kalman Filter and two GPS. Before change alarm 2010 was activated
also if only one DGPS lost differential signal. After change alarm 2010 is activated for above case only if
positions of two GPS separates more than 30 meters. The new behaviour remove unnecessary alarms for short
periods of lost DGPS, if there are no other consequences than lost differential mode.
· Alarm "2013 SOG COG unreliable"
· This has been too aggressive in rough sea condition (for ex. 40-50 separate alarms per 4 hours
period). After change the alarm condition lasts for 10 minutes, if second alarm occurs within 10
minutes. This will change separate alarms as one long alarm condition.
· This has been problematic for fast vessels and fast manual manoeuvres. Logic has been changed:
Alarm is not generated, if autopilot is not used or it is used in Heading Control mode. Vessels with
fast manoeuvres ("Max rate of turn" limit > 150 deg/min) use increased detection level for COG/SOG
unreliable condition.
AIS and ARPA targets viewing limitations
· Before change common limit for AIS and ARPA targets displayed on top of chart was 1:1 000 001 both for
ARCS and S57 charts. This was a problem for Ocean areas with ARCS charts, because large enough ARCS
charts were not available. After the change ARCS has display limit set so that AIS and ARPA targets are
displayed on top of the largest scale Ocean charts (original scale 1 : 3 500 000) when they are zoomed to
overscale.
AIS target data display
· Repeated messages received from shore station, following rules apply:
· If direct message from a target is not received then repeated message can be accepted.
· If direct message from a target is received then repeated message is not accepted.
Activation of Kalman Filter
· New behaviour includes a reset to position before activation of the Kalman Filter. This removes possibility that
own ship position jumps a lot after activation of Kalman Filter.
Changed Wind indication
· Before change the system indicated "True Wind" value based on the standard IEC 61162-1. After change the
system indicates "True Wind" as commonly understood by mariners. In practise old mode indication NORTH
and TRUE are replaced by indications TRUE and RELATIVE.
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Following formats for Route Backup & Restore are available:
· Old formats: a) INC, b) ANTS, c) ASCII PROPRIETARY (previously name was ASCII)
· New formats: d) ASCII POSITION, e) ASCII WPNAME POSITION, f) ASCII POSITION WPNAME, g)
ASCII FULL. The idea behind the new formats is to enable exchange of route data between ECDIS and
common Office software for PC.
Chart related changes
ARCS charts
· ARCS Skipper service level is now available.
S57 charts
· Telecomm service from a RENC has removed (Primar-Stavanger will close this service from 6 of May 2004).
Display alternatives
Display aspect ratio (Width : Height)
· Now displays with aspect ratio (4:3) or (5:4) can be used. Previously only displays with aspect ratio (5:4) could
be used. This change was done because many new flat screen models are based on (4:3) aspect ratio.
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Overall operation related changes
AIS target data display
· the system remembers if user has preference to view AIS target details or no details
Chart related changes
Additional Military Layers (AML)
· Support for S57 based AML layers (CLB, ESB, IWC, LBO, MFF, RAL, SBO).
· support is available both over S57 and ARCS charts.
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Changes since release 03.02
Overall operation changes
There are no changes since 03.01. Version 03.02 has been withdrawn.
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Changes since release 03.01
Overall operation related changes
Presentation of Position (Numerical presentation, where available)
· minute marks added for Latitude and Longitude values.
Information of Route Monitoring on ECDIS (available on Upper Information Area)
· changed terminology for WP information
· Plan CTS changed to Plan
· Next WP changed to To WP
· Next CTS changed to Next
· ETA changed to Time
· Indication in red text (corr) is available for following planned courses, if these values are gyro error
compensated:
· Plan
· Next
Position sensor related alarms
· Scattered SOG and/or COG from sensors causes a new alarm "2013 SOG&COG unreliable"
· If alarm 2013 is active, the system does not use dynamic WP for turns in "Goto WP" steering mode
· Alarm "2007 Position Discrepancy" is activated if set limit is exceeded between "Primary" and any
"Secondary" position sources or set limit is exceeded between own ship position and any position sensor. If
Kalman filter is in "ON" position the sensor who caused alarm 2007 is excluded from position calculation of
Kalman filter.
Position sensor related indications
· Together with alarm "2007 Position Discrepancy" a textual indication "Discrepancy" is shown for position
sensor in Pos page of Sensor.
· If position sensor has been excluded from position calculation by Kalman filter, a textual indication "Excluded"
is shown for position sensor in Pos page of Sensor.
New indication window for pending state and progress of Harmonization of Multi workstations operation mode
· Permanently shown with smaller window when harmonization is in pending state or in progress
· Details of harmonization in progress can be viewed or hidden on display
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Route Monitoring
· It is now impossible to select a Planned Route as Monitored Route, if it contains geometry check errors (for
example waypoints are too close to each other etc.)
· Waypoint names are displayed together with waypoint number (before only number)
· List of waypoints is also available as narrow window on information area
· changed terminology for WP information
· Next WP changed to To WP
· Time changed to ETA
Route Planning
· Optional Voyage Optimization System (VOS) has not been available since 01.01.2000.
Alarms in general
· If an alarm is based on a state - for example missing sensor signal - then a silent pending alarm stay after
acknowledge of the alarm until the state changes.
· New relay output from B-Adapter for IEC 62065 Track Control standard related alarms. This relay open if any
of related alarms is unacknowledged for 30 seconds.
Operation mode of ECDIS
· A new mode for ECDIS has been added, which is called "Standby". Standby mode is intended for staying in a
harbour, when you need to switch off audible alarms from the ECDIS.
Chart related changes
ARCS charts
· A history log has been added to record load and update of charts
S57 charts
· SENC conversion speed has been improved in general. Also the SENC converter can perform multiple updates
in one sequence without writing the intermediate results into Harddisk. This further speed up SENC conversion
for large amount of updates.
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Overall operation related changes
Navigation tools (Tool Set 1 and Tool Set 2):
· In Tool Set 1 presentation of VRM, EBL and Parallel Index are as dashed line type.
· In Tool Set 2 presentation of VRM, EBL and Parallel Index are as dotted dashed line type
Navigation sensors:
· Distance and Trip counters have separate fields both through water and over ground distances.
Presentation of Time and Date in ECDIS:
· In ECDIS local time is indicated with text "LOCAL TIME" (before it was used specific name for local time
zone).
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Changes since release 02.02
Overall operation related changes
Terminology used in ECDIS is harmonised to comply with IMO resolution MSC 64 for Integrated Bridge System
(IBS).
· Terms Speed Made Good (SMG) and Course Made Good (CMG) have been changed to terms Speed Over
Ground (SOG) and Course Over Ground (COG).
· Term Course, where it was used to mean the horizontal direction in which the longitudinal axis of a ship actually
points or heads at any instant, has been changed to Heading (Hdg):
· Alarm "2002 No course available" has been changed to "2002 No heading available"
· In Spd/Crs page of Sensor Manual Course has been changed to Manual Heading.
AIS Targets
· It is now possible to display AIS targets top of ECDIS chart presentation.
· New alarms include :
· alarm "3500 AIS target overflow" if Maximum count of AIS targets set to be displayed on
ECDIS has been exceeded within defined Maximum range.
· alarm "3501 AIS target storage full" if Maximum count of AIS targets which can be
stored for displaying on ECDIS has been exceeded.
· alarm "3502 Dangerous AIS target" if AIS target has met dangerous target limit set by
CPA and TCA.
· alarm "3503 Lost AIS target" if no update information received from AIS target within
defined reporting interval of vessel type.
· alarm "4037 AIS receive error" if connection to AIS transponder fails.
Common reference system
· It is now possible to configure multiple ECDIS workstation to use common harmonised data bases (i.e. Charts,
User Charts, Routes, Pilot Data etc.), common Alarm management, common Sensors and common Navigation
features. See more in chapter "Common Reference System".
Navigation sensors:
· Alarm "2008 Filter. Speed below 4kt" has been changed to 2008 Filter. Speed below XXkt" where value of
XX is set in Installation Parameter of ECDIS.
· Alarm "2010 Filter: Pos source change" has now a time out which prevent alarm from short momentary loss of
D-signal in DGPS
· The system generates an alarm "4038 Datum mismatch" (alarm numbers are from 4038..4043 depending of
position receiver), if output Datum of a selected Position sensor (status any other than Off) is changed from
WGS84 to another Datum. This feature requires that the position receiver is type approved based on IEC
61162-1 Ed2 (July 2000).
· The system generates an alarm "4044 Datum change" (alarm numbers are from 4044..4049 depending of
position receiver), if output Datum of a selected Position sensor is changed from another Datum to WGS84 and
if the user has used selection Primary or Secondary. This feature requires that the position receiver is type
approved based on IEC 61162-1 Ed2 (July 2000).
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Various orientation of chart are available:
· North Up with True Motion and Relative Motion (these were available before)
· Course Up with True Motion and Relative Motion (new)
· Route Up with Relative Motion (new)
· Head Up with Relative Motion (new)
Route Planning
· A new alternative method has been added for entering the waypoints: you can now define also new waypoint by
direction and distance.
Speed vectors
· The time of speed vectors is now permanently indicated.
Predictor
· It is now possible to select the prediction time. Another improvement is that the predictor display shows 5
predicted positions instead of one displayed earlier. Also the time of predictor is permanently indicated.
Past track
· Past track resolution has been increased from 1 minute to 10 seconds
Route Planning
· Route plan can include links to User Chart and Pilot Data, which user has planned to be used together with a
planned route during Route Monitoring.
· Check feature of the Route Plan has been changed. It now uses a separate set of Chart Alarm categories and
separate value of Safety Contour. This new arrangement allows user to plan routes for different conditions than
the current condition for real-time navigation.
Route Monitoring
· Planned Routes can include links to User Chart and Pilot Data, which user has planned to be used together with
the planned route during Route Monitoring. The system automatically warn, if you use any other User Chart or
Pilot Data than the ones specified during planning.
· Route Plans use now separate set of Chart Alarm categories and separate value of Safety Contour. The system
automatically warn, if you use other values than the planned ones.
· It is now possible to view list of waypoints for Monitored Route
Danger Target Log
· Before only dangerous targets were logged. After all targets are logged if at least one target is dangerous.
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Chart related changes
S57 and ARCS charts
· Method to display availability information such as "larger scale available" has been chart harmonised between
S57 and ARCS
· The system maintain internal availability catalog and stores it into the harddisk. This has speed up operations
such as "Initial delay during start up", "Date dependent" dialog, use of "Catalog" etc.
· Default used Presentation library for ECDIS has been changed from version 3.1 to 3.2 as IHO has published a
new one.
S57 charts
· All attributes, which were previously only available as coded text strings, are now displayed in plain text.
Before on "Tidal panel data" had this feature.
· A new selection to display cancelled charts in RENC using S57 Catalogue.
ARCS charts
· ARCS catalogue uses now common backdrop chart with S57. It is always automatically available. Use of low
resolution ARCS charts in this system is discontinued after this improvement.
· ARCS charts can be used with new Skipper licence for non-SOLAS purposes. SOLAS users continue to use
Navigator licence as before. The main difference of Skipper and Navigator licence schema is that Skipper
licence do not include updating and thus the charts are not maintained up-to-date as required for SOLAS
purposes.
· In ARCS Catalogue available up-to-date situation of chart with different colours based on ARCS weekly Update
CD-ROM information which is loaded into ECDIS last time.
· If ENC chart is available from the area of ARCS chart it is now indicated.
Manual Update editor
· A new method to keep the charts up-to-date using easily detectable Standard orange symbols. Later these
symbols are called as "Orange symbols".
· To add additional mariner information using easily detectable orange symbols.
Display alternatives
Flat panel
· Before the colour calibration model included only required calibration model for CRT based displays. After a
change the software include also colour calibration model for Flat panel. This calibration model require remote
control of Flat panel from ECDIS computer unit.
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Overall operation related changes
Navigation sensors
· If position alignment is used then user is reminded of it every 30 minutes. Alarm "2011 ChartAlign: over 30
min".
· In multiple sensor case the Kalman filter indicates changes in its position sources with a new alarm "2010 Filter:
Pos source change".
· Kalman filter uses always higher priority for known high precision position sensors than for normal position
sensors (i.e. A DGPS has always higher influence to estimate than a GPS or LORAN)
· Alarm "4027 DGPS pos source change" uses now always a continuous beep until acknowledged. Before the
beep style was dependent of the steering mode. Also the priority of this alarm is readjusted (before some less
important alarm could suppress it in the priority list).
· Alarm "2008 Filter. Speed below 4kt" is now based on ground speed (before water speed). The Kalman filter
indicates this situation also with an permanent indication of BAD FILTER.
· Reference target based gyro error correction has now an alarm for lost correction value. Alarm "2353 RefTgt:
Lost gyro corr.".
· Activation of Reference target requires that there is at least 8 free tracking channels available. If the connected
ARPA radar has less than 8 free tracking channels then there is an alarm "2353 RefTgt: Tracking full".
Route Monitoring
· Selection of "Center and border lines for ARPA radar display" .in route monitoring window is dependent of used
radar display type.
· Alarm "2457 Route: Outside channel limit" is activated once when the ship goes out of the channel limits.
Before the alarm was reactivated every 5 minute. NOTE the permanent indication of "OUTSIDE CHANNEL"
operates as before and give always an indication of route tracking status.
Past Tracks
Own ship has now three separate past tracks:
· "System", which is the past track of the system position used for navigation and steering.
· "Primary", which is the past track of a position sensor selected as Primary.
· "Secondary", which is the past track of position sensors selected as Secondary.
Speed Vectors
· There is now a selection between true and relative speed vectors for own ship and ARPA targets. Before only
true vectors were available.
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Radar echo overlay
· There is now a selection between true and relative radar echo trails. Before only relative trails were available.
Details log
· details log for last 12 hours include now course over ground and gyro correction in order to provide more
complete recording
Chart related changes
S57 and ARCS charts
· chart display has more alternatives to individually select visibility of different text on chart
· Info Request has now transparent area fill for better indication of the area in question
· Info Request show now the coded text for each picked object. Before only attributes and their values were
available. This change eases for example usage of light descriptions.
S57 Chart
· Chart Catalogue uses colour coding to indicate up-to-date chart and non up-to-date charts.
· Telecomm order of Charts and updates open now automatically "Order queue window" and inform the user
about end of orders when all requested transactions are complete.
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Introduction
System Configuration
DISPLAY
DISPLAY
DGPS
DGPS
Receiver
Receiver
Block diagram of the LAPTOP demo ECDIS
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PROCESSOR
KEYBOARD
KEYBOARD
DONGLE
DONGLE
MOUSE
MOUSE
PRINTER
PRINTER
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How to read this manual
The ECDIS is build on the platform of Windows NT. So the windows, menus and dialogues outfit seem same as in
other Windows application. If you are not familiar with Windows NT refer for more information to manuals of
Windows NT.
Below are explanations for a few terms used in this manual:
This is typical menu of ECDIS. From this menu user can execute appropriate
function. There can be two kinds of function in the menu:
1. Command, which executes directly function.
2. Command followed small triangle. By selecting function like that it will
appear submenu where user can select appropriate function to execute.
There can also be command which is grey. Greyed commands are not active or they are for future use. They are not
selectable.
A list box:
An edit box:
Selected check box:
A check box not selected:
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ECDIS Screen
Overview
Parts of the ECDIS display.
The ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems) screen includes several areas. There is statusbar at
the top and the bottom of the screen, which are shown permanently. The upper and lower right hand corner is taken
up by permanently shown information in Information area. Between these areas there is a Dialog box area where
user can fill or choose appropriate options. The left hand part of the ECDIS screen is the Electronic chart area.
When the push button is pressed from the Control Panel appropriate menu opens up top of chart legend.
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Electronic chart area
The ECDIS can use the following types of charts:
· S57ed3 ENC charts (vector)
· CM-93 charts (vector)
· ARCS charts (raster)
There can also be displayed following information:
· cursor moved by trackball
· planned route
· EBL (Electronic Bearing Line) and VRM
· symbol of ownship with speed vector
· targets acquired by ARPA
Electronic charts in ECDIS
The electronic navigational charts are displayed in Electronic chart area. There are two kinds of electronic
navigational charts available to use in the ECDIS:
· S57ed3 ENC or CM-93 vector format
· ARCS raster format
S57ed3 ENC and ARCS electronic charts may substitute official paper charts. User should check the current
situation from his flag country administration and if in doubt use the paper charts as primary source of navigational
information.
ECDIS combines chart and navigational information. It should be noted that modern navigation systems (e.g.,
differential GPS) may offer a more accurate positioning than was available to position some of the surveys from
which the electronic navigational chart was derived.
S57 vector format:
ECDIS is compatible with S57 release 3 ENC format. From this format the ECDIS generates the “System ENC”, =
SENC, which is used for actually for operations the ECDIS.
When opening a chart it is displayed with default scale called compilation scale. It is possible to modify details of
chart displayed in Electronic chart area. You can change scale of chart by pressing ZOOM IN and ZOOM OUT
pushbuttons. Scale range is 1:1 000 - 1:50 000 000.
CM-93:
Compatibility with CM-93 format depends on commercial agreements. Some versions of this ECDIS are compatible
and others are not. The compatibility is controlled by the security device called dongle. From CM-93 format the
ECDIS generates SENC which is used for actual operations of the ECDIS. The difference between S57ed3 ENC
charts and CM-93 charts is that the CM-93 charts are from a private source and they cannot be used as a substitute of
paper chart under any condition. To highlight that part they are later called as NON-HO charts in this manual.
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S57 vector chart presentation
ARCS raster format:
ARCS charts are digital reproductions of British Admiralty (BA) paper charts. They retain the same standards of
accuracy, reliability and clarity as paper charts.
Zooming into the ARCS chart can be useful for magnifying complex detail, but decreases the density of data
displayed, and can give a false impression of distance from danger. Therefore it is possible to zoom 2*original paper
chart's scale or ½*original paper chart's scale.
ARCS raster chart presentation
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Upper statusbar
Upper Status bar is used to display selections made by user and information based on chart data base stored on hard
disk. See example below how to find out description of Upper Status bar (In this example Upper Status bar is
divided into two parts and fields are separated by dashed lines).
List of Indications on Upper Status bar
1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6. 7.
8.
9. 10.
12. 13. 14. 15.
See table below to find description of indications on Upper Status bar.
The list of fields and all possible indications :
Number Indication
1.
2.
Mon. Route
The name of selected Route in monitor mode.
Plan Route
The name of selected Route in planning mode.
11.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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Pilot data
The name of selected Pilot Data in monitoring mode.
UserChart
The name of selected User Chart in monitoring mode.
Ref Target
The name of selected Reference Target in monitoring mode.
ARPA X
The number of ARPA radar, which is the current source of ARPA target data.
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7.
Radar
The source of radar video overlay.
8.
Predictor
Set time of displayed predictor in seconds
9. Orientation of displayed chart and Presentation mode of own ship . Available modes are:
· North Up TM (True Motion)
· North Up RM (Relative Motion)
· Course Up TM (True Motion)
· Course Up RM (Relative Motion)
· Head Up RM (Relative Motion)
· Route Up RM (Relative Motion)
10 Presentation mode of speed vectors (own ship and ARPA targets) and set time. Available
modes are:
· True vectors, TrueVect
· Relative vectors, RelVect
11. Trails of radar video overlay. Available modes are:
· When selected true trails of radar echoes, TrueTrails
· When selected relative trails of radar echoes, RelTrails
12. Indication of displayed chart material:
· When there is no indication, then official ENC chart is displayed.
· When ARCS chart is displayed on ECDIS, RCDS (Raster Chart Display System mode).
· When displayed chart is from unofficial vector chart material, NON ENC.
· When Radar video overlay is displayed on top of chart, Radar Over Chart.
· When only Radar video overlay is displayed, Radar Video Only.
13. Indication of automatic TM reset of own ship if it is set off:
· TM Reset Off
· Ship off screen
14. Indication of selected scale of displayed chart referred to the original scale of chart.
With ARCS following are available:
· Displayed Chart is in smaller scale than original paper chart, Underscale
· Displayed Chart is in larger scale than original paper chart, Overscale
With S57 (ENC)
· If selected scale of chart is larger than compilation scale of chart, it is indicated as X nn
(for example "X10.7" or "X2.0")
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15. Indication of availability of charts:
· If TM reset is active, then indication is from own ship position
· If automatic TM reset is set off, then indication is from current cursor location
With ARCS following indications are used:
· If larger scale ARCS are available, Larger RNC
· If same scale ARCS available, Eq RNC
· If larger compilation scale ENC available, Larger ENC
· If same compilation scale ENC available, Eq ENC
· If smaller compilation scale ENC available, Smaller ENC
With S57(ENC) following indication is used
· If larger compilation scale ENC available, Larger scale data exists
Lower Status bar
Find below description of Information available on Lower Status bar:
The data displayed in lower statusbar includes the following listed from left to right:
Field Description
UTC time
Local time zone
Mode of Workstation
Scale
Software release
Alarms:
Find below a few examples of Lower Status bar:
Lower status bar in normal operation.
Lower status bar, when the system has generated an alarm.
Lower status bar, when the steering has generated an alarm.
Co-ordinated Universal Time. The UTC time indicates time on Greenwich Meridian.
User can select local time zone to be displayed in this field.
Mode of Workstation is indicated with text MULTI, SINGLE, PLAN or SLAVE.
Scale of displayed chart is shown in this field.
Current software release is shown here. Upper value is software release of the ECDIS
chart. Lower value is software release of the ECDIS navigation interface.
Alarms generated by the system (replace UTC time) and by the steering (replace local
time) is shown in lower status bar.
Dialogbox area
Content of Dialogbox area is depending on status of ECDIS. This is the area where user can discuss with
application. If user has pressed a pushbutton of Control panel and chooses desired menu command from the menu
there will appear the corresponding dialog box in the Dialog box area.
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Information Area
In Information area where is permanently displayed information about the position of own ship and the route
monitoring (upper part of the area) and information of cursor's location on the chart (lower part of area).
Information from the positioning sensors:
· Latitude and Longitude
· GYRO readings and source of it if it is not real gyro
· COG (Course over ground) and source of it
· SOG (Speed over ground)
· Positioning source, which can be: Dead Reckoning,
GPS, DGPS, LORAN, FILTER etc.
· Datum in use, which is shown above positioning
source. (WGS 72, WGS 84, European 1950 etc.)
Information from Route monitoring:
· Plan Speed; planned speed to approach "To WP".
· Plan; planned course between previous and "To WP".
· Route; calculated set course to follow the Monitored
route including off track, drift and gyro error
compensation.
· Ch limit; planned width of channel to approach "To
WP".
· Off track; perpendicular distance of the ship from the
track.
· To WP; the waypoint which the ship is approaching.
· Dist WOP; distance to the point where rudder order
for course change at "To WP" will be given.
· Time; time left to WOP (dd:hh:mm:ss).
· Next WP; the wp following the "To WP".
· Next; planned course between "To WP" and "Next
WP"
· Turn rad; planned turning radius at "To WP".
· Turn rate; calculated rate of turn which bases on
current speed and planned turning radius.
Information, which has calculated from data of positioning
sensors and from data of Route monitoring by the system:
Additional textual information is available if any of
following steering mode is in use:
· "Goto WP", "GotoWP Great circle", "Ass. Turn
enabled" and "Assisted turn" in Goto Waypoint
mode
· "Goto Track", "Track Great circle", "Track Turn"
in Go Track mode
Permanent alarms are available regardless of the used
steering mode:
· "Outside channel" is indicated by red colour of the
"Off track" value and by orange text
· "Out of gate" is indicated by orange text. Out of
gate indicates that, if the vessel continues using the
current course, then the vessel will be outside of
the channel at wheel over point.
· Route
· Off track
· Dist WOP
· Time
· Next
Position of cursor, co-ordinates displayed in selected
Datum.
Range and bearing from own ship position.
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Control Panel
Overview
The user controls the ECDIS with the Control Panel. The Control Panel includes the pushbuttons and the trackball.
The trackball is used as a mouse by rolling the ball and using the pushbuttons SELECT. The user can control the
cursor’s position on the display, select the menu items and alter values of various parameters.
Layout of the Control Panel.
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Operative push buttons
SELECT
Used in window dialog to push soft keys, tick boxes etc. It is also used to insert WPs, User
Chart objects etc. when corresponding sheet is open in a Dialog box area.
OK/ENTER
It is used in window dialog to select OK or ENTER option.
SELECT NEXT
If dialog box has two or more sheets, SELECT NEXT is used to open next sheet.
CANCEL
It is used to close window dialog on display. To get Chart legend to be displayed, press
CANCEL in the Control Panel until panel appears with Chart Number as top item.
Direct function push buttons
STANDARD DISPLAY
It is used to make displayed object selection as defined by IMO performance standard.
CHART ALIGN
User can move own ship over chart to new position. It is used to align chart correctly if used
position method does not give accurate position. Moves also waypoints etc. to a new position if
corresponding window is open in dialog box area.
ZOOM OUT
This is used to change the scale of displayed chart. The scales of chart have defined by system.
Pushing once the zoom out pushbutton you get next smaller scale of chart on display (e.g.
before ZOOM OUT scale was 1:10000 and after ZOOM OUT it is 1:20000). The scale of
chart is indicated as fraction in lower statusbar.
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ZOOM IN
This is used to change the scale of chart display. The scales of chart have defined by system.
Pushing once the zoom in pushbutton user gets next greater scale of chart on display (e.g.
before ZOOM IN scale was 1:20000 and after ZOOM IN it is 1:10000). The scale of chart is
indicated as fraction in lower statusbar.
SET CHART CENTER
User can set the current cursor position as new chart center position by pushing SET CHART
CENTER button. Automatic true motion reset is disabled, when user presses SET CHART
CENTER button. This can be used to view ahead, route planning etc.
SHIP OFF CENTER
User can set the current cursor position as new position of ship on the display. This enables
automatic true motion reset. If the cursor position was in true motion reset area then an
automatic true motion reset happens.
TM/CU RESET
Pressing this button performs true motion reset and enables automatic true motion resets.
LOGBOOK M.O.B.
This button is used to record a predefined Man Over Board event to logbook. Position of this
event is also displayed on chart as a red mark.
LOGBOOK EVENT
This button is used to record an event to logbook. You can also write a comment for this event.
Note, it is displayed only if Events is selected to display in Chart display dialog box.
ALARM ACK
Alarm is displayed in the lower status bar. Also a red lamp is activated for this pushbutton.
High priority alarm has also an audible sound.
lamp SYSTEM FAILURE
This lamp is lit in case of internal failure which has serious effects for operation.
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Menu push buttons
CHART DISPLAY PUSH BUTTON IS USED TO CONTROL VISIBILITY OF CHART
DETAILS OF BOTH ARCS RASTER CHARTS AND S57 VECTOR CHARTS.
For more information, see Chapter "Control of visible chart features" in ECDIS EC 1000
Operators Manual.
Press Chart Display button once, a Chart display window appears. To open another page of Chart Display (Chart,
Standard, Other, Tracking, Mariner, Route or ARCS details), use SELECT NEXT button.
Press Chart display button once more a Chart display menu, where you can select predefined settings or create and
save new ones, appears:
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ROUTE PLAN PUSH BUTTON IS USED TO CONTROL ROUTE PLANNING
FUNCTION.
For more information, see Chapter "Route Planning" in ECDIS EC 1000 Operators Manual.
Press Route Plan button once, a Route Plan window, which shows information of selected route, appears in Dialog
box area.
To open another page (WP, Check, Alarms, Params or Prepare), use SELECT NEXT button
Press Route Plan button once more a Route Plan menu, where you can select another route for planning or create a
new one, etc., appears:
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USER CHART PUSH BUTTON IS USED TO CONTROL USER CHARTS.
For more information, see Chapter "User Chart Control" in ECDIS EC 1000 Operators Manual.
Press User Chart button once, a User Chart window, which shows information of selected User Chart, appears in
Dialog box area.
To open another page (Point, Line, Area, Symbol or Tidal), use SELECT NEXT button.
Press User Chart button once more a User Chart menu, where you can select another User Chart for use or create a
new one, etc., appears:
Menu for Plan mode Menu for Monitor mode
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PILOT DATA PUSH BUTTON IS USED TO CONTROL PILOT DATA.
For more information, see Chapter "Pilot data" in ECDIS EC 1000 Operators Manual.
When you press Pilot Data button once, a Pilot Data window, which shows information of selected Pilot Data,
appears in Dialog box area.
Dialog boxes for Plan and Monitor modes:
When you press Pilot Data button once more a Pilot Data menu, where you can select another Pilot Data for use or
create a new one, etc., appears:
Menu for Plan mode Menu for Monitor mode
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ROUTE MONITOR PUSH BUTTON IS USED TO MONITOR ROUTE.
For more information, see Chapter "Route Monitoring" in Operators Manual ECDIS EC
1000.
Press Route Monitor button once, a Route Monitor window, which shows information of selected route, appears in
Dialog box area.
Press Route Monitor button once more a Route Monitor menu, where you can select another route for monitoring,
appears:
REF TARGET PUSH BUTTON IS USED TO CONTROL REFERENCE TARGETS.
For more information, see Chapter "Reference targets" in ECDIS EC 1000 Operators Manual.
Press Ref Target button once, a Reference Target
window, which shows information of selected
Reference Target, appears in Dialog box area.
Press Reference Target button once more a
Reference Target menu, where you can select
another Reference Target, for use or create a new
one, activate Reference target as position device:
Menu for Plan mode
Menu for Monitor mode
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NAV MARKS PUSH BUTTON IS USED TO DEFINE EBL, VRM, PARALLEL INDEX
AND RANGE RINGS.
For more information, see Chapter "Navigation marks in ECDIS EC 1000 Operators Manual.
Navigation marks consist of two independent sets of tools. Both tools have REFERENCE POINT, EBL, VRM,
PARALLEL INDEX and RANGE RINGS which are displayed in the Electronic Chart Area.
SENSORS PUSH BUTTON IS USED TO SELECT SENSORS USED BY ECDIS.
For more information, see Chapter "Navigation Sensors" in ECDIS EC 1000 Operators
Manual.
To open another page (Speed/Course, Pos, Other or Record), use SELECT NEXT button.
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CHART PLAN PUSH BUTTON IS USED TO CONTROL BOTH ARCS RASTER
CHARTS AND S57 VECTOR CHARTS MENUS.
For more information about ARCS charts, see Chapter "ARCS charts" and about S57 charts see
chapter "S57 charts" in ECDIS EC 1000 Operators Manual.
Chart Plan menu Chart Plan menu
when S57 is in use when ARCS is in use
Ignore Scale
Sync Scale
By CD-Catalogue
View Loaded CD Catalogue
Manual
Planning
Undo Last
Clear
Date Dependent
Backup & Restore
Log File
S52 Presentation Library
User Permit
Refresh Charts after Backup
Reset Files
Ignore Scale
Sync Scale
Manual
by Position
by Permits
by Active Group
Manual
History
by Permits
by Active Group
Manual
History
Manual
by Active Group
ARCS Update Status
S52 Presentation Library
Verify System Files
Refresh Charts after Backup
Log File
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INITIAL SETTING PUSH BUTTON IS USED TO CONTROL SETUP AND
CONFIGURATIONS OF THE SYSTEM.
For more information, see Chapter "Parameters setup" in ECDIS EC 1000 Operators Manual.
Press Initial Setting button once, a Initial settings window, where you can select Datum, appears in Dialog box area.
Lower part of dialog appears only if in Installation Parameters of ECDIS has been configured as Multi workstation.
You can set Usage rights, Sensor source and Mode of Workstation in this dialog.
Press Initial setting button once more a Initial Settings menu, where you can change settings of parameters etc.,
appears:
Ship and Route Parameters
Forwarding Distance
Planning Parameters
Conning Parameters
Access Server Display
Access Server
Access Server log
Human Interface log
ECDIS Shutdown dialog
Diagnostic Console
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VOYAGE RECORD PUSH BUTTON IS USED TO SELECT VOYAGE RECORDING
RELATED THINGS.
For more information, see Chapter "Recording functions" in ECDIS EC 1000 Operators
Manual.
When VOYAGE RECORD button is pressed a menu appears where various logs can be viewed, set conditions for
recordings, etc.
DISPLAY MODE PUSH BUTTON IS USED TO CONTROL SELECTION BETWEEN
TRUE AND RELATIVE MOTION AND ORIENTATION OF CHART
For more information, see chapter "Display mode" in ECDIS EC 1000 Operators Manual.
Selection for Display Mode and Chart Orientation
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RADAR PUSH BUTTON IS USED TO CONTROL ARPA TARGET SOURCE AND
RADAR ECHO OVERLAY SETTINGS on ECDIS display.
Note, Radar overlay is an option which is not available all devices. For more information, see
Chapter "Radar video overlay" in ECDIS EC 1000 Operators Manual.
INFO & HELP pushbutton
INFO & HELP push button operates together with the cursor on display.
· If cursor is located outside chart area, then it activates help function.
· If cursor is located in chart area over ARPA target, then you will get the information of that
target.
· If cursor is located over Pilot data, User Chart or Reference target object, or over M.O.B
or Event symbol, then you get information of pointed object.
· If cursor is located in chart area, then you will get information from chart database about
the pointed cartographic object.
· If cursor is located over alarm text, then it activates Alarm Queue
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Standby mode
Switch ON and OFF
Standby mode is intended for staying in a harbour, when you need to switch off audible alarms from the ECDIS. To
switch Standby mode ON, you have to proceed as follows:
1. Press INITIAL SETTING button.
2. Select Standby from the menu.
3. A following window appears top on ECDIS display to indicate that audible alarms
are switched off.
To switch Standby mode OFF, press "BACK TO NORMAL MODE" button.
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Set up before departure
Update Chart material
Update your ARCS and S57 chart material before departure to a new voyage. To get more information about
updating ARCS charts, see Chapter "Raster Charts" and about updating S57 charts, see chapter "S57 vector charts".
Note that if you have an installation with a back-up station, you can make a backup of your chart to back-up station
in an easy way, see Chapter "Backup of chart material".
Display and Approve date for S57 charts and manual
updates
NOTE! It is very important that you set Display and Approve date for S57 charts as current date.
There may be features which are Date dependent or periodical in S57 charts, therefore if you not have set Display
and Approve dates as current date there is possibility that you may have wrong presentation or some feature may
completely be absent. To get more information about to set Display and Approve date, see Chapter "Date dependent
and periodical features of S57 chart" .
Create or update User chart
If it is necessary, create a new User chart or modify existing one for a new voyage. To get more information about
User chart, see Chapter "User Chart Control".
Create or update Reference targets
If it is necessary, create a new Reference targets file or modify existing one for a new voyage. To get more
information about Reference targets, see Chapter "Reference targets" in ECDIS EC 1000 Operators Manual.
By pressing this button a following menu appears
.
If you have made a Reference target (min. 8 fix points), activate Monitor mode and then select Reference target >
Start to activate this function. After this Reference target is one of the position sensors. For more information, see
chapter "Reference Targets".
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Create or update Pilot data
If it is necessary, create a new Pilot data or modify existing one for a new voyage. To get more information about
pilot data, see Chapter "Pilot Data".
Set Chart Alarm calculation
Set Chart Alarms areas suitable for your coming voyage. For more information, see chapter "Chart Alarms".
To open Chart Alarms window, press INITIAL SETTING button and select Chart Alarms Parameters from the
menu.
Set Depth alarm limit for Echo Sounder
To change
Depth alarm
limit take
cursor to Echo
alarm depth
edit box and
press SELECT
button..
Use Echo alarm depth to set the Depth alarm limit for Echo Sounder.
Note, that the ECDIS will alarm based on information received from Echo Sounder. This is an option which is not
available with all installations.
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Create or update Route
By pressing ROUTE PLAN button twice a following menu appears. Use this menu to select a
route for Planning.
If it is necessary, create a new route or modify existing one for a new voyage. To get more information about
creating or updating a route, see Chapter "Route Planning".
Check your route against Chart Alarms
Before you sail your route, you should always check your route again for Chart Alarms. This is important because
your S57 charts and manual updates may contain any amount of date dependent information. Check of Chart
Alarms can be done on Check page. Following information is stored with the Route during Route Plan:
· Conditions for Chart Alarms during Route Monitoring, which includes Safety contour and other Chart Alarms.
· Name of the User Chart planned to be used during Route Monitoring together with this Planned Route
· Name of the Pilot Data planned to be used during Route Monitoring together with this Planned Route
When Start button is pressed selections of Alarms page is stored. Also name of User Chart and name of Pilot Data
which were selected as Plan mode are stored in this Route.
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Recalculate timetable and ETA values
Recalculation can be done on Params page. Set at least ETD to correspond departure time and perform desired
optimization.
Set at least
ETD to date
and time edit
box in
ETD/UTC field
to correspond
departure time.
After check of Chart Alarms and set of ETD, cancel selection of the Planned Route in order to enable the selection
of it for route to be monitored. Use Cancel from above menu to do it or use Exchange with Monitored to select it
directly as Monitored Route.
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Check and prepare Route to be monitored
Select a route for the next voyage; double click Route monitor push button and select recalculated route. For more
information selection of route, see Chapter "How to select route to be monitored".
If text "Checked conditions are different" appears to window, it indicates that conditions
selected during Route Planning were different than conditions selected to be used during Route
Monitoring, for more information to use Checked conditions, see chapters "Use Checked
conditions of the Route Plan" on page 44 and "Use planned User Chart" on page 44.
Select To Waypoint
The system selects To waypoint automatically, check that it is correct one. Note that waypoint number 1 is not
accepted. Use above menu to do it.
Select Final Waypoint
This selection is used ONLY in case that the last waypoint should be different to that one defined last in your route.
If needed use above menu to do it.
Center line for ARPA radar
Select ON to display the center line of the route on the radar display. Displayed part of the route consists of one leg
before next waypoint and four legs after that. Select OFF to disable display of the center line on the radar display.
NOTE! This option is available with selected ARPA radar models.
Channel borders for ARPA radar
Select ON to display the channel limit lines of the route on the radar display. Displayed part of the route consists of
one leg before next waypoint and four legs after that. Select OFF to disable display of the channel limit lines on the
radar display.
NOTE! This option is available with selected ARPA radar models.
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Use Checked conditions of the Route Plan
You can check on
Alarms sheet if
checked conditions
are used with the
route during
monitoring..
If text "Current
selection is different"
is displayed, press
Use button to select
used condition
during monitoring as
planned. (Differences
between used and
planned conditions
are displayed with
(*) marks).
Use planned User Chart
To check if planned
User Chart is
selected, open
Selections sheet to
check that you have
correct User Chart in
Monitoring Mode.
If text "Current
selection is different"
is displayed, press
Use button to select
User Chart as
Monitor Mode.
If text "This has been
changed after Route
Planning Check", Recheck your Route
against Chart Alarms.
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Use planned Pilot Data
To check if planned
Pilot Data is selected,
open Selections
sheet to check that
you have correct
Pilot Data in
Monitoring Mode.
If text "Current
selection is different"
is displayed, press
Use button to select
Pilot Data as Monitor
Mode.
Text "This has been
changed after Route
Planning Check"
reminds you that
Pilot Data has been
modified after Route
Planning Check.
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Verify configuration of navigation sensors
User can select navigation sensors used in navigation and view their current values.
Checkbox status shows whether to use the sensor for integrated navigation or not. If there is no value with sensor it
indicates that sensor is not valid. Note, that content of these sheets is depending on sensors which are in use on the
ship.
SENSORS
push button
To select
between
Speed/Course
and Position
sheets to be
opened either
press button
or go by
cursor above
Speed/Course
or Position text
and press
SELECT
Verify source of navigation sensors
In a multiple Workstation environment verify that Sensor source indicated Initial Setting is the intended one.
Verify SPEED settings
Select both LOG and DUAL LOG, if they are available. Or select one of them.
Note that MANUAL SPEED should be used in only emergency state when no other speed reference is available.
Remember that position sensors are also available as speed reference sources.
Verify RADAR settings
If LOG and DUAL LOG are not available, you can use radar as source for speed and course.
Verify GYRO settings
Select GYRO1 or GYRO2. Note that in typical installation GYRO1 is connected to a traditional gyro compass,
while GYRO2 receives gyro value from either Trackpilot or a DGPS sensor.
Note that MANUAL heading should be used in only emergency state when no other heading reference is available.
Rate gyro is always automatically selected.
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Verify POSITION sensors
SENSORS push button
To select between
Speed/Course and Position
sheets to be opened either
press button
or go by cursor above
Speed/Course or Position text
and press SELECT
The data field of a position sensor contains a label (here GPS1, GPS2) which indicates the type of the sensor,
Primary-Secondary-OFF status that indicates, if the sensor is included or not, position in local datum, speed and
course. A DGPS position sensor has additional text Diff, if differential signal is in use.
Position sensors have priority, which is indicated using Primary and Secondary. Only one sensor can be primary
while the others can be secondary or off position. After OFF-state a position sensor is changed to secondary-state.
After secondary-state a position sensor is changed to primary-state and if there was already a position sensor with
primary-state it will be changed automatically to secondary-state.
SWITCH ”Primary” THAT SENSOR WHICH IS CONSIDERED TO BE MOST RELIABLE.
SWITCH “Secondary” OTHER SENSORS.
Verify KALMAN FILTER
The Kalman filter is an automatic process that will calculate the most probable position based on all position sensors.
The filter uses in its process all sensor that has not OFF as selection. For more information about Kalman Filter, see
Chapter "Filter operation".
Verify ALIGNMENT
The alignment is a correction given by the Chart Align function. It is used to move vessel "Correct" position if
position devices define "incorrect" position. Normally switch OFF in the start up procedure. For more information
about alignment, see Chapter "How to use position alignment".
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Reset Distance and Trip Counters
Use this button to open
Voyage record menu.
Press Voyage Record push button and select Reset Trip Counter and Reset Distance Counter.
Verify Datum
Datum is used to select between different models of the earth. It is essential that you use Datum in a consistent way.
If you use paper charts together with electronic chart material, it is recommended that you use the same Datum as
your current paper chart to avoid misalignment between your electronic system and points taken or plotted on your
current paper chart.
Once you have selected a datum, all numerical latitude-longitude position values are presented in your selected
datum.
Note: ARCS raster charts contain some rasterized position information, like scales in the edges of ARCS charts,
which is true only if you have selected native datum of that ARCS chart.
To select datum proceed as follows:
1. Press Initial setting push button.
2. Select desired datum from a list box of Datum.
3. Selected datum is shown on the Upper information area.
Selected datum is shown on Upper information area (in this case WGS 84).
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Conditions required to replace
paper charts
Introduction
Carriage requirement for adequate and up to date charts for intended voyage can be found from SOLAS Chapter
V/20 of the 1974. In resolution A.817(19) IMO has specified how requirement of the V/20 of the 1974 can be
fulfilled with a device called ECDIS. In resolution A.817(19), Appendix 7 (RCDS 1998) IMO has specified how
requirement of the V/20 of the 1974 can be fulfilled when an ECDIS uses RCDS mode. The traditional alternative
way to fulfil requirements of the SOLAS chapter V/20 of the 1974 has been the use of paper charts.
If you use type approved version of this ECDIS (BSH type approval certificate number 6579 / 080 138 / 99. If in
doubt, contact your supplier of the ECDIS to check the status of your system) and if following conditions are met,
then your system fulfils IMO A.817(19).
· own ship area is covered with updated ENC charts
· your selected display area is covered with updated ENC charts
· you have a backup system which fulfils IMO A.817 requirements. One example is a second
ECDIS
Note that ENC producers provide their conditions of use in the Publisher notes, which you should read always when
loading new material into the ECDIS. See chapter "How to load S57 charts from a CD-ROM, floppy or LAN" on
page 61.
In areas where ENCs are not available raster chart material called ARCS from UK HO can be used in the ARCS
mode of this ECDIS, if following additional conditions are met:
· own ship area is covered with updated ARCS charts
· your selected display area is covered with updated ARCS charts
· appropriate folio of up-to-date paper chart is carried onboard and available, if required by your
flag country administration
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No
Can your ECDIS replace
paper charts
Is ECDIS type
approved according
IEC 61174?
Yes
You should use
paper charts
No
No
Do you have type approved
electronic back-up
arrangement?
(I.e. second ECDIS)
Yes
Are official ENCs available
for intended voyage?
Yes
Have responsible
Hydrographic Offices
published official ENCs
without any limitation for
use? (I.e. You have not
signed any limitation paper)
Yes
No
Go to flow chart
“RCDS”
No
Have you included the latest
updates into your ECDIS?
Your system fulfills IMO resolution
A.817(19) and thus
fulfills SOLAS regulation V/20 to carry
adequate and up-to-date charts for
the intended voyage
Data flow chart for replacing paper chart with ENC chart material
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RCDS (Raster Chart
Display system)
You should use
paper charts
No
No
No
Is ECDIS type
approved according
IEC 61174 including
RCDS mode
(Appendix 7)?
Yes
Are Raster charts
available for intended
voyage?
Yes
Have you included the
latest updates into your
ECDIS?
Yes
Have you a
No
minimum set of
up-to-date paper charts
for RCDS mode as specified
by your flag country
Administration?
Your system fulfills IMO MSC Meeting
11 Dec 1998 requirements and thus
fulfills SOLAS regulation V/20 to carry
adequate and up-to-date charts for
the intended voyage
Data flow chart for replacing paper chart with Raster chart material
Yes
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How to detect ENC coverage in S57 Chart display
This Electronic Chart System has capability to show more than one S57 Chart cell at the same time. This feature is
called multi cell display. If one S57 Chart cell does not cover the whole display the system will open more S57
Chart cells to be displayed, if they are available in displayed area. The Upper Status bar shows information about
S57 Chart cells displayed on the Electronic chart display area. When automatic TM reset is active, the information
is displayed from position of own ship. When automatic TM Reset is OFF, then the information is displayed from
current position of cursor.
The list of possible indications:
RCDS mode: Raster chart material is displayed on electronic chart display area.
Non ENC Data: The S57 Chart at cursor location is not official ENC material.
No indication: The S57 Chart at cursor location is official ENC material
Areas which are covered by legal ENC data are indicated with ENC coverage symbol (This symbology is used by
IHO S-52 Ed. 3.2. or earlier Presentation Library). See following examples.
Full ENC coverage.
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Partial ENC coverage.
No ENC coverage.
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Vector Chart material
Introduction
Theoretically a chart can be coded for computer as raster or vector chart. There is a special chapter for raster coded
charts in this manual. Vector coded charts can be coded using different techniques. One technique is called S57ed3
and this technique has been selected by IMO as the only alternative for SOLAS compliant electronic charts. If a
S57ed3 coded chart is published by government authorised Hydrographic Office, then it is called ENC. If a S57ed3
coded chart is published by private industry, then it is called as NON ENC. Another technique is known as CM93/2. It is used by private company C-MAP to publish electronic charts. All CM-93/2 charts are NON ENC. There
is a special chapter about C-MAP charts in this manual. You can read more about ENC and related legal issues in
chapter "Conditions required to replace paper charts". Later in this manual all references to Vector Chart material
are under name S57 Charts regardless of the source of them.
Sometimes you may wish to add manually Notices to mariners or Navtex warnings into your S57 charts. In this
system this kind of things are called as Manual Updates. Manual updates are valid for both S57 and ARCS charts so
that you need to define them only once. Also manual updates are valid for all scales so that you don't need to repeat
them for charts published in different scales from the same area. See more details in chapter "Manual Updates" .
S57 Charts
Introduction
This Electronic Chart System is compatible with official IHO S57 release 3 chart material produced by
Hydrographic offices (HO). This material, when issued by government authorised Hydrographic Office, is called
ENC (electronic navigational chart). Use, presentation and display of S57 charts are based on International
Maritime Organisation (IMO), International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) and International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC) regulations and rules (S52ed3.1). When this ECS (Electronic Charts System) uses ENC (S57
release 3 chart produced by a government authorised Hydrographic Office), it is an ECDIS as defined by IMO, IHO
and IEC.
An ENC could be encrypted to prevent unauthorised use and then the user needs a permit to view the ENC. This
permit could be entered manually from control panel or loaded from a floppy disk.
Before any ENC can be used in the ECDIS, it is loaded into the hard disk and converted into the system’s own
internal format (SENC). Some parts of the charts may be date dependent i.e. they are visible after a set date or they
are visible only for a limited period etc. In this Electronic Charts System you control all date dependent objects with
Display Until and Approve Until dates. In paper chart world the Preliminary and Temporary Notices to Mariners
represent the date dependency described above for S57 charts.
An important part of ENCs are the updates. Hydrographic Offices can issue two kinds of updates:
· incremental updates, which are small additions to original base cells
· reissues and new editions, which are complete replacements of previous base cells and their
updates
All updates are date stamped and they may also contain date dependent parts. You control also usage of updates in
this Electronic Charts System from Display Until and Approve Until dates. Using Display Until and Approve Until
dates you can view your charts correctly drawn on any date in the past or in the future.
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Chart material will be available stored in media such as CD-ROMs and floppies or electronically from LAN (Local
Area Network) in which it could have arrived from RENCs, CD-ROMs or floppies. Such material can contain only
basic cells, cells and updates or only updates. This Electronic Chart System contains as standard delivery the
software to access CD-ROMs, floppies and LAN.
Each S57 chart may contain beside the chart itself links to additional textual descriptions or pictures. Typically
additional textual descriptions and pictures contain important sailing directions, tidal tables and other traditional
paper chart features, which do not have any other method to be included into the S57 chart. This ECDIS copies
these textual descriptions and pictures into its hard disk and allow you as user to cursor pick them for viewing
purposes.
An appendix of this manual provides short introduction for interpretation of S57 ENC chart display.
Definitions of terms
Cell
S57 chart
ENC
SENC
RENC
A cell is a geographical area containing ENC data. Each cell has separate unique name.
Hydrographic Offices divide their responsibility area into the cells which they publish.
A database, standartized as to content, structure and format, issued for use with ECDIS without
any authority of government authorized Hydrographic Office. The difference of S57 chart and
ENC is that non-ENC charts require complete up-to-date paper charts to be used as primary aid
of navigation.
A database, standartized as to content, structure and format, issued for use with ECDIS on the
authority of government authorized Hydrographic Offices. The ENC contains all the chart
information necessary for safe navigation and may contain supplementary information in
addition to that contained in the paper chart (e.g. sailing directions) which may be considered
necessary for safe navigation. The name of coding standard for ENC is S57ed3.
A database resulting from the transformation of the ENC by ECDIS for appropriate use,
updates to the ENC by appropriate means, and other data added by the mariner. It is this
database that is actually accessed by ECDIS for the display generation and other navigational
functions, and is the equivalent to an up-to-date paper chart. The SENC may also contain
information from other sources.
A service provider offering ENC delivery and update service as defined in IHO standard
S52e3. Often a RENC provides CD-ROM based service to ECDIS users. One example of a
RENC is the RENC in Stavanger operating under marketing name PRIMAR-Stavanger.
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Chart legend of S57 chart
CHART LEGEND is not a pushbutton, but it is a front-page, which is displayed as a base. If you push CANCEL
enough you will finally get CHART LEGEND.
This system is capable to show more than one S57 Chart at the same time. This feature is called multi chart display.
If one S57 Chart does not cover the whole display, the system will open more S57 Chart to be displayed, if they are
available in displayed area. The Chart Legend shows information about S57 Charts displayed on the Electronic chart
display area. The information is displayed from position of own ship, if automatic TM reset is active or from current
position of cursor, if automatic TM Reset is OFF.
Cell name:
Name of chart.
Navigational purpose:
S57 Charts are compiled for a variety of navigational purposes.
The navigational purpose, for which an individual S57 Chart
has been compiled by a Hydrographic Office, is indicated in
this field. Alternatives are: Overview, General, Coastal,
Approach, Harbour and Berthing
Issue date:
Issue date of the base cell of the chart.
Edition number:
Edition number of the chart.
Last displayed update:
Number of last update, which is visible on the chart screen.
Update issue date:
Issue date of last update, which is visible on the chart screen
Last update appl. date:
Date to which the last update, which is visible on the chart screen, is effective.
Projection:
Projection of the chart. The projection is always Mercator.
Horizontal datum:
Horizontal datum of the chart data as published by the producer of it. By definition this must be WGS 84.
Vertical datum:
Vertical datum of the chart.
Sounding datum:
Datum used for soundings.
Quality of data:
This is a quantitative estimate of the accuracy of chart features given by chart producer.
Magnetic var.:
Amount of magnetic variation. A positive value indicates a change in an easterly direction and a negative value
indicates a change in a westerly direction.
Depth:
Indication of used measurement units of depth.
Height:
Indication of used measurement units above sea level (for example clearance height).
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Permanent warnings of S57 charts
Permanent warning help you to keep the S57 charts up-to-date. Only up-to-date S57 charts can be legal replacement
of the paper charts. Permanent warnings indicate, if the system detects a condition which may cause your system to
use not up-to-date charts.
NOTE! The system can powerfully assist you to keep your charts up-to-date for the charts which you have got from
a RENC. For charts which has been loaded from other sources than a RENC, the system is unable to know the exact
up-to-date situation.
See more details in chapter "Date dependent and
periodical features of Vector chart".
You have loaded updates into the hard disk, but these
updates are not included into the SENC. This kind of
charts are drawn in orange colour in the Chart Plan Catalogue.
Perform SENC conversion for these charts. See
more details in chapter "How to use SENC convert
window to initiate SENC conversion".
See more details in chapter "How to know up-to-date
status of the RENC Product List".
You have loaded an update which contained cancel
information for a chart. You selected not to remove
the canceled chart. This permanent indication
reminds you about your intended use of a canceled
chart.
Consider removal of the chart. See more "How to
remove S57 Charts from the system" on page 83.
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How to load S57 charts
Flow chart of the loading of S57 Charts into ECDIS
Loading ENC
into ECDIS
Load S57 charts from CD
•Open SENC convert
window
•Wait until all conversion
are completed
•If any of ENC conversion
fails, a Failed senc
conversion window
appears
Yes
Do you want to see
result of SENC conversion?
No
Do you want to see
details of failed ENC
conversions?
Yes
•Highlight (Paint) desired
ENC in a list
•Press Cell Status
button
•Open Conv. Log
No
Continue from POINT 1
Data flow chart, How to load S57 charts into ECDIS.
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Make a visual inspection
for changes in ENCs
•Added objects are marked
with orange circle symbols
•Deleted objects are marked
with orange slash symbols
•Modified objects are marked
with both orange circle and
slash symbols
POINT 1
During SENC conversion
the system sets Display
Until date for the current
system date
Yes
Do you want to see changes
before approving them?
No
Approve loaded changes by
setting Approve Until to
current date
•Open Date Dependent
•Select All
•Set Approve Until current
date
Data flow chart continue, How to load S57 charts into ECDIS.
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Loaded ENCs are ready
for use
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How to load S57 charts from a CD-ROM, floppy or LAN
When you load S57 charts by CD Catalogue, the system first load a CD catalog, which stores certain information
into the hard disk such as cells ID, their position, edition number, from your LAN (Local Area Network) connection,
floppy or CD-ROM. After that the system asks which charts will be loaded from the selected media.
After building the CD catalogue you can view the contents of it using S57 catalogue command.
Note: All CD-ROMs, floppies or LAN (Local Area Network) connections from one single National Hydrographic
Office have equal names although their contents could be totally different. You can use your own unique names to
identify them separately and correctly later.
To load by CD catalogue proceed as follows:
1. Press CHART PLAN push button.
2. Select Load from the menu and by CD Catalogue from the sub menu. A
Load CD Catalogue dialog box appears. The default load source is CDROM. Press Load and continue from step 5, if you use CD-ROM. If you
want to load from a floppy disk or from another ECDIS using LAN, you
have to change Load Dir. Press Browse to select a new Load Dir
CHART PLAN push button
3. If you use a floppy disk, select A:\ in Drive:. If you use another ECDIS using LAN, select suitable Drive: and
Sub Dir. Note that a correct load source has "\ENC_ROOT" in the end of the Current Directory: (see
example below).
Press Select when you are ready.
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4. You return back to S57 Load dialog. Press Load .
Note, if you are loading PRIMAR official ENC service Base CD or Update CD, the ECDIS will automatically
give name "PRIMAR" or "PRIMARUPD" for CD Catalog and you can continue step 7.
5. A keyboard dialog box appears. Enter name for CD Catalog and press OK. System will load catalog
information into the hard disk.
6. The system automatically copies all Text and Pictures files associated with Charts from a CD Catalogue. The
system keeps only the latest version of these. If your system had already in use newer Text and Picture files you
will get the notice below.
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7. Following dialog box appears
Select a named "CD" you want to load from CD -field. A list of charts appears into a list box which contains
information about charts (edition and update number). In a Chart Selection you can choose, which charts are
loaded from the CD-ROM. Selection "Missing only" loads only Charts and their updates which are not already
loaded into the ECDIS.
Note, If you want to remove loaded CD Catalogue, select desired CD from the list box and press Remove
button.
8. Press Load button to load selected charts.
9. If any of chart conversion fails, a Failed SENC conversion window appears, which has a list of failed
conversions. Use this window to find out the reason for failure. For more information, see chapter "How to use
Failed SENC conversion window" on page 70.
10. If you want to view the progress of SENC conversion, you can activate the SENC convert window. For more
information, see chapter "How to view progress of SENC conversion" on page 69
NOTE 1! If you want to make chart selection by group, press Group button and select desired group. If in selected
group and list of charts have common charts, they are highlighted in the list box.
NOTE 2! If your system has LAN (Local Area Network) and you want load your charts from another drive than
your system CD-ROM drive, press Source Dir button. Then you can define drive and path from where you load
your charts.
NOTE 3! The System can make conversion into the SENC and set the "Display Until" date automatically. This is
the recommended way. More information to set them, see chapter "How to select automatic SENC conversion and
Display Until date" on page 68.
NOTE 4! You should read the text file associated into each catalog. The text file typically contains very important
notices for the usage of the charts from the producing Hydrographic Office .
1. Press View CD Publisher Notes button in the S57 Load dialog box.
2. A viewer shows you the Publisher Notes of the selected "CD".
3. If you want to make a hard copy of Publisher Notes, select Print in the File menu.
4. To close this program, select in Exit in the File menu.
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NOTE 5! You can view the Summary of the content of the CD. It contains information about charts you are going
to load.
1. Press View CD content Summary button in the S57 Load dialog box.
2. A viewer shows information about the selected "CD". Each row contain:
· CellID Name of the chart
· Edition Edition number of the chart
· Base Included update number and issue date of base cell of the chart
· First Update Update number and issue date of the first update included
· Last Update Update number and issue date of the last update included
3. If you want to make a hard copy of the Summary of Catalog, select Print in the File menu.
4. To close this program, select in Exit in the File menu.
The example above contain only base cells and reissues of the charts. Charts GB204000 and GB50401S are called
as reissues, because they already include updates (GB204000 include updates 1 and 2. Gb50401S include update 1).
Charts GB304010, GB40401S and GB40501L are called as base cells, because they do not contain any updates i.e.
their update number is 0.
The example above contain both base cells and all updates of the charts from issue of base cell up to the last update.
The example above contain only updates. In example above update 3 is available for chart GB204000, update 1 is
available for chart GB40401S, updates 1 and 2 are available for chart GB40501L and update 2 is available for chart
GB50401S.
Messages, which control reload
If you try to load charts with the
same edition already loaded into your
hard disk or if you try to load the
same update already loaded into your
hard disk, you get following
messages after pressing Load button.
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If you press Cancel button, you will
get following dialog box:
If you want to avoid very time consuming reload of charts which you already have, then you should select No (="No
for all" option in above window).
However if you want to reload charts, then select Yes (="Yes for all" option in above window).
Messages, which contain only notice
If you tried to load older chart data than you already have in your hard disk, you will get one of the following
messages:
This indicates that you already use a
newer edition of the chart.
This indicates that you already use a
newer reissue of the chart, which
includes this update
.
This indicates that you already use a
newer reissue of the chart
.
This indicates that you already use
these updates
.
NOTE! You can not replace chart data, which is already in use unless you only replace the latest base cell or update.
If you want to reload older data again, you must first remove the chart from your hard disk (See chapter "How to
remove S57 chart cells from the system").
Messages, which require careful attention
All messages in this chapter change the legal status of the charts in your system. Study these message extremely
careful because you may need to use paper charts to fulfil SOLAS requirements
Test before ENC to SENC conversion fails
CRC checksum is tested before the
SENC conversion and if it fails you
get this message
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Conversion from ENC to SENC fails partly
If conversion fails partly due to internal booking error of
the chart.
Load the chart and updates again into the system.
ENC to SENC conversion fails or detects errors
If the SENC conversions detect
anything abnormal you get following
message window:
See more information in chapter
"S57 SENC Conversion details" on
page 68.
A new edition of the chart has been published and you miss it
If you tried to load updates for a
chart for which you do not have new
enough base cell or reissue in your
hard disk, you will get following
message:
The message above clearly indicate that this chart is not up-to-date and thus it does not fulfil SOLAS
requirements. Get immediately from the publisher of this chart the new edition of the chart.
You do not have all the published updates
If you tried to load updates and you
miss one or more updates between
updates already loaded into your hard
disk and updates that you are
loading, then you get following
message:
The message above indicates that you tried to load updates number 3, 4 and 5 when at least update 2 and possibly
update 1 were not available in your hard disk. Check the content of your CD-ROMs to find the missing
update/updates or contact your chart supplier.
The message above clearly indicate that this chart is not up-to-date and thus it does not fulfil SOLAS
requirements. Get immediately from the publisher of this chart the missing updates of the chart.
Unsafe Chart has been cancelled by the publisher
If you load an update, which contain
cancellation of the chart instruction
by the publisher of it, you get
following message:
Normally you should accept the cancellation and you should press Yes. Then the system automatically removes the
chart from the hard disk and from your chart screen.
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You may insist to keep the chart although the publisher of it has told you that the content of the chart is so unsafe
that they have cancelled it. The reason might be that you do not have anything better available. In this case you
press No. Then the system automatically remove the ENC status from the chart, because the publisher has told so in
his special cancellation update.
Note that the cancellation message above clearly indicate that the publisher says that this chart is unsafe for
navigation and thus it does not fulfil SOLAS requirements. Get immediately from the publisher of this chart the
new chart/charts, which replace the unsafe cancelled chart.
How to load S57 charts, which are not fully compliant with the
standards
The ECDIS could in some cases load S57 charts, which does not have full compliance with S57 standard coding for
transfer media. Minimum requirement for loading manually is legally coded:
· XXXXXXXX.000 file, which includes a base cell
· XXXXXXXX.NNN file, in which NNN is a number from 001 to 999, and which includes an
update
To load charts without building a named "CD Catalog" proceed as follows:
1. Press CHART PLAN push button, select Load from the menu and Manual
from submenu.
2. You can select desired drive and charts.
CHART PLAN push button
When ready to load charts, press Load Chart button.
3. The System may also make conversion into the SENC and setting of Display
Until date automatically. This can take a few minutes.
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S57 SENC Conversion details
S57 charts from Hydrographic offices are called ENCs. An ENC has to be converted into SENC format before it can
be used in the ECDIS. The ECDIS can convert ENC into SENC format automatically. If the conversion is
successful, the Failed SENC conversion window does not appear.
If the system fails to convert ENC into SENC or if the system detects an coding error in an ENC, a Failed SENC
conversion window appears with a list of failed ENCs. In this window you can select any of the charts to see reason
for failure in conversion.
Normally the conversion is initiated automatically from loading of the charts. Chapter "How to load S57 charts" on
page 59 describes the loading process. Chapter "How to select automatic SENC conversion and Display Until date"
on page 68 describes how you can select automatic conversion. You can also initiate conversion from a SENC
convert window or from a Cell Status window.
How to make SENC conversion faster
The SENC conversion speed depends about how many other tasks the system has. The system can do SENC
conversion as background process during any other possible operational use of the system, but you can greatly
improve the speed of the SENC conversion, if you do following things:
1. Disable Radar echo overlay. Select Radar overlay mode as ECDIS ONLY. Select control of visible navigation
features as OFF for Radaroverlay (the Radaroverlay visibility control is located in "Tracking" sheet of "Chart
details").
2. Select Display Mode as TRUE MOTION
3. Press Set Chart Center push button and allow the system to operate either in TM RESET OFF or SHIP OFF
SCREEN state
4. Press Zoom In until you reach scale of 1:1 000
How to select automatic SENC conversion and Display Until date
When you are loading new S57 charts base cells and/or their updates into hard disk, it is possible make automatic
conversion to SENC format. It is also possible to set display dates as issue dates automatically. Proceed as follows
to set these options:
1. Press CHART PLAN button, select SENC Convert Settings from the menu.
2. A S57 Settings dialog box appears:
Select Automatic SENC Conversion and Automatic Display Until options.
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How to view progress of SENC conversion
If you want to view the progress of SENC conversion, you can activate SENC convert window. Proceed as follows:
1. Press CHART PLAN button, select SENC Convert from the menu.
2. A SENC Convert window appears:
Example above shows a queue of unfinished SENC conversions.
Note!. You can at any moment remove charts from the conversion list. You paint
with the cursor any amount of chart names in the Conversion List. And then you press
Cancel Conv. to remove your painted charts from the SENC conversion queue.
Example above shows that all SENC conversions have been finished.
Note!. You can at any moment view the results of the finished SENC conversions.
Press Conv. History and you get a Conversion log for viewing.
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How to use Failed SENC conversion window
If the system is unable to convert ENC into SENC without any error or failure, a Failed SENC conversion window
appears with a list of failed ENCs. Status of Failure means that the system completely failed to convert the ENC into
the SENC and thus the ENC cannot be used.
Status of Errors means that the system detected minor or major errors in the conversion of the ENC into the SENC.
Check carefully the content of Conv history and Cell status to see, if the error was minor or major. Major errors are
indicated as NON ENC in Conv History. Note that the status of Errors together with NON ENC in Conv
History clearly indicate that this chart is not up-to-date and thus it does not fulfil SOLAS requirements. Get
immediately from the publisher of the chart the new edition of this chart.
Status of Failed means that the system completely failed to convert the ENC into the SENC and thus the ENC
cannot be used. Note that the status of Failure clearly indicate that this chart is not up-to-date and thus it does
not fulfil SOLAS requirements. Get immediately from the publisher of the chart the new edition of this chart.
The Failed SENC conversion window contains two buttons. One to open conversion history log Conv. History
and another to open Cell Status window of selected item in the list of Failed SENC conversions window.
If you use Conv. History button, a
Conversion Log appears. Conversion Log
shows the status of converted ENCs. More
information about the results of conversions,
see chapter "How to use SENC Conversion
history log" on page 71.
If you use Cell Status button, a Cell Status window appears.
Then you can push Conv Log button to open view detailed description of errors and failures detected during SENC
conversion (see example on next page.
In the example above the reason of the SENC conversion failure is a miss match of checksum (calculated crc number
differs from the expected).
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How to use SENC Conversion history log
The system automatically records the results of all conversion into the Conversion history log. You can at any
moment view the content of this log. Proceed as followed:
1. Press CHART PLAN button, select SENC Convert from the menu.
2. A S57 SENC CONVERT dialog box appears:
After conversion (Conversion list is empty), press Conv. History button.
NOTE! You can also activate the Conv. History from the "Failed SENC conversions" window.
3. A list of converted charts appears:
You can view here status of converted charts.
4. Close TextView program from File menu.
Below are example of all possible results of conversion:
Perfect chart
Successful auto. conv: ENC: GB203000.000, edt: 1, upd: 0 / 1999 4 3
Perfect Chart ,which is produced by a private chart producer (i.e. chart doesn't
have ENC status)
A private chart cannot fulfil SOLAS requirements and you must refer to a paper chart as legal primary aid of
navigation, when you navigate in the area covered by this chart.
Successful auto. conv: ENC: AS31MATT.000, edt: 1, upd: 0 / 1999 4 8 NON ENC
Conversion errors, but the chart is partly usable
Use Cell Status to check details of errors. Note that the chart is still ENC.
Successful auto. conv with errors: ENC: DE416050.000, edt: 3, upd: 0 / 1998 6 12
Conversion errors, but the chart is partly usable as NON ENC
Use Cell Status to check details of errors. Note that the chart is not anymore ENC, if it was produced by an
Hydrographic Office, and you must refer to a paper chart as legal primary aid of navigation, when you navigate in
the area covered by this chart.
Successful auto. conv with errors: ENC: n1302322.000, edt: 1, upd: 0 / 1999 1 4 NON ENC
Failed conversion
Chart is not usable and you cannot view the chart. You must refer to a paper chart as legal primary aid of navigation,
when you navigate in the area covered by this chart.
Failed automatic conversion: ENC: DK3EI0XE.000, edt: 1, upd: 0 / 1999 2 17
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Failed conversion of an update
Chart is partly usable, but it is not up-to-date and you need a "new edition" of the chart from the publisher of it.
Note that the chart is still ENC, but it does not anymore fulfil the SOLAS requirement that you have included the
latest update into your chart. You must refer to a paper chart as legal primary aid of navigation, when you navigate
in the area covered by this chart.
Failed auto. conv: ENC: GB500005.001, edt: 2, upd: 1 / 1997 9 26 Updating impossible before
new edition of base cell
Failed conversion. Checksum is not correct
Chart is not usable and you cannot view it. Try to reload the base cell or update from original media. And if that
doesn't help order a new CD-ROM from your chart supplier. You must refer to a paper chart as legal primary aid of
navigation, when you navigate in the area covered by this chart.
Failed automatic conversion: ENC: SG5CONTL.000, edt: 1, upd: 0 / 1996 2 25 CHECKSUM ERROR
Failed conversion. Checksum of an update is not correct
Chart is partly usable, but it is not up-to-date . Try to reload the update from original media. And if that doesn't help
order a new CD-ROM from your chart supplier. Note that the chart is still ENC, but it does not anymore fulfil the
SOLAS requirement that you have included the latest update into your chart. You must refer to a paper chart as
legal primary aid of navigation, when you navigate in the area covered by this chart.
Failed automatic conversion: ENC: GB5X01SW.002, edt: 1, upd: 2 / 2005 1 1 CHECKSUM ERROR
Failed conversion. At least one of the previous updates has failed in its SENC
conversion
The system cannot accept additional updates unless all previous updates have been successfully converted into the
SENC. Chart is partly usable, but it is not up-to-date. Try to reload first the failed previous update from original
media (in this example the failed previous update is GB5X01SW.002). And if that doesn't help order a new CDROM from your chart supplier. Note that the chart is still ENC, but it does not anymore fulfil the SOLAS
requirement that you have included the latest update into your chart. You must refer to a paper chart as legal
primary aid of navigation, when you navigate in the area covered by this chart.
Failed automatic conversion: ENC: GB5X01SW.003, edt: 1, upd: 3 / 2005 9 8 PREVIOUS UPDATE
MISSING
Failed conversion. The base cell has failed in its SENC conversion
The system cannot accept updates unless the base cell has been successfully converted into the SENC. Chart is not
usable and you cannot view it. Try to reload the base cell from original media (in this example the failed base cell is
GB5X01SW.000). And if that doesn't help order a new CD-ROM from your chart supplier. You must refer to a
paper chart as legal primary aid of navigation, when you navigate in the area covered by this chart.
Failed automatic conversion: ENC: GB5X01SW.001, edt: 1, upd: 1 / 1998 9 8 PREVIOUS BASE
CELL OR UPDATE MISSING
NOTE! Always study both the "Failed SENC conversion" dialog and "Conversion history
log" very carefully, because they contain important information about the legal status of
the charts. Specially note that a chart may lose its legal status to fulfil SOLAS
requirements and you may need to refer to a paper chart as legal primary aid of
navigation.
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How to use SENC convert window to initiate SENC conversion
Normally the "Automatic SENC conversion" is selected and there is no need to initiate SENC conversions from the
SENC convert window. If you do not use the "Automatic SENC conversion" , you need to manually initiate SENC
conversion. Another case in which you need to manually initiate SENC conversion is, if you upgraded or reloaded
the ECDIS software from the ECDIS software CD-ROM.
To initiate SENC conversions manually proceed as follows:
1. Press CHART PLAN button, select SENC Convert from the menu.
2. A SENC Convert window appears:
3. Use Cells to select an individual chart or use Groups to select a group of charts.
Then press Convert to initiate the SENC conversion of the charts. Note that the
Convert only do conversion of those charts, which are not currently converted into
the SENC format. If your selected chart or all members of your selected group are
already in the SENC format, the Conversion list remains empty. If all or some
charts are not yet in the SENC format, they are added into the Conversion list (see
example below). If you need for some reason to force SENC conversion of an
already converted charts, you read instructions in chapter "Seldom used features of
Vector charts" on page 130.
Note 1!. You can at any moment remove charts from the conversion list. You paint
with the cursor and by pressing SELECT button any amount of chart names in the
Conversion List. And then you press Cancel Conv. to remove your painted charts
from the SENC conversion queue.
Note 2!. You can at any moment view the results of the finished SENC conversions.
Press Conv. History and you get a Conversion log for viewing.
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Some features of Chart Plan menu
Overview of Chart Plan menu
Activate ARCS chart:
This function activates ARCS chart into the screen. You have two option to
select the chart to be opened into the display: Ignore scale opens ARCS chart
with a scale which was used last time when you used ARCS charts, Sync scale
opens ARCS chart with a scale which is as close as possible to the scale which
was used with S57 charts.
Open:
You can open S57 chart by its number. See chapter "How to select charts for
viewing" on page 104.
Load:
You can load ENCs into the hard disk using CD-ROMs, floppies or LAN (Local
Area Network); see chapter "How to load S57 charts" on page 59.
Remove:
You can remove cells from your hard disk; see chapter "How to remove S57 Charts from the system" on page 83.
Permit Management:
You can load permits for encrypted charts to enable their use in your ECDIS. Currently PRIMAR and CMAP uses
encryption.
ECDIS Chart 1:
This is used to open chart set "IHO ECDIS Chart 1". You can get familiar with symbology of chart used with
ECDIS. See also Chapter "Symbology used in Vector charts" on page 121.
Catalogue:
You can manage S57 charts using this; see chapter "Catalogue of S57 cells" on page 76.
Cell Status:
You can view status of the cells (edition number and date, number of updates of the cell) stored into your hard disk,
CD-ROMs or RENC. You can compare that you have the latest cell with latest update in use. For more information,
see chapter "Seldom used features of Vector charts" on page 130.
Date Dependent:
You can view date dependency of the cells (RENC status query date, number of updates available, Update Display
dates, Update Approve Dates of the cells) in the SENC format; see chapter "Date dependent and periodical features
of Vector chart" on page 114.
Manual Update Planning
You can update your charts manually. For more information, see chapter Manual Updates.
SENC Convert:
You can convert ENCs (base cells and/or updates) into the SENC by individual cell or group of cells basis; see
chapter "How to use SENC convert window to initiate SENC conversion" on page 73.
SENC Convert Settings:
You can select automatic conversion from ENC format into the SENC format when you load charts into the hard
disk. You can also select automatic set of Display until date to current date after the SENC conversion; see chapter
"How to select automatic SENC conversion and Display Until date" on page 68.
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System:
System has a set of further selections. They are described
below:
Log File
The log file contain various system events, which might be useful when your system supplier try to find reason of the
unexpected behaviour of the system reported by you.
S52 Presentation Library
You can check used presentation library for S57 charts. The
current official Presentation library is shown in this example.
User Permit
You can check your User Permit., which is used as your
identifier in security systems such as PRIMAR and CMAP.
See example below:
Refresh Charts after Backup.
This is used to refresh available charts and updates after somebody made Backup of all charts and updates from
another ECDIS to this ECDIS.
Reset Files
This is only used for demonstrations. Reset Files run a script, which can be defined only by the factory experts, and
which returns the content of the chart database into a such state that an demonstration of chart loading and updating
could be demonstrated again.
If you by accident select this option, you get this question:
Select Cancel for any other case than rerunning of the demonstration.
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Catalogue of S57 cells
A S57 catalogue is used to view graphical coverage of the charts stored into the hard disk, available in a named
"CD" or available from the RENC. Available charts are displayed using their limits of charts. Note that sometimes
the real coverage of the charts may be considerably less than the declared limits of it. You can cursor pick any chart
by going over its limit and then you can view the information of it
1.
2.
3.
4.
Catalogue window appears when you press CHART PLAN button and select Catalogue from the menu.
1. View Filters
· Name, if selected displays also cell names in graphical coverage display
· Permit, if selected displays only charts for which you have permit
· RENC Cancelled Charts, if selected also charts, which are cancelled in a RENC, are displayed on Catalogue.
· Navigation purpose, displays charts from selected Navigation purposes
· Group Charts, displays charts, which are members of the active group
· Catalogue Charts, you have three option to select:
· RENC, display charts available from the RENC
· SENC, display charts stored into the hard disk in SENC format.
· CD, display charts available in a named "CD"
2. Selected Chart
· Cell ID, name of the chart
· Permit, existence of the permit
· SENC, existence of SENC in your hard disk
3. Group. See more in the chapter "Group of S57 cells"
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4. The chart limit boxes are colour coded as follows:
Green
Orange
Red
Blue
Magenta
The chart is available for use in SENC format. If the source of the chart is a RENC then the chart is
also up-to-date. If the source of the chart is something else than a RENC then all loaded updates are
included into the SENC.
The chart is available for use in SENC format but the chart is either not up-to-date or canceled. Either
the SENC is from old edition, the SENC misses latest updates or the chart has been canceled..
If the chart is permit free, you do not have it available for use in SENC format and thus you cannot use
the chart currently.
If the chart requires permit, you do not have the permit for the chart and you cannot use the chart
currently..
The chart is available either in ENC format, in SENC format for another software version or in SENC
format for another ECDIS. For example chart is blue during SENC conversion and if you loaded a
chart into the ECDIS and the system could not convert the chart into SENC format.
You have a permit to use the chart, but the chart is not available in SENC format and thus you cannot
use the chart currently.
Group of S57 Chart cells
In S57 catalogue you have possibility to define groups of S57 Charts. This means that you can collect charts
together - for example all cells, which cover a route from Liverpool to New York or all cells available from one
National Hydrographic Office. This makes easier to perform many SENC maintenance functions such as loading
base cells and updates, setting Display Until and Approve Until dates etc. Below an example how to make a group
and add Charts into it.
1. Select Catalogue
Charts as RENC, HD
or CD
2. Press Groups
button
4. Press Add Frame
button
3. Enter Name
for new Group
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5. Use SELECT
button to define
frame for group
6. Press Done
button
7. Press Save
button
You can save your chart cells also into text file, if you like to have a list of chart cells in text format. To do this
press Save As Text... button. A “Save As” dialog box appears.
Select directory and drive to where you want save your group. You can use Windows NotePad application to view
and to make a hard copy from the list of group.
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How to remove S57 Chart cells from a group
You can remove chart cells from a defined group. To remove proceed as followed:
1. Press CHART PLAN push button. Select
Catalog from the menu.
2. Press Groups button in S57 Catalog dialog
box.
3. Select desired group from Edit group list
box.
4. Select desired chart cell(s) from Inside list
box.
5. Press >> button. Selected Chart cell is
removed to Outside list box and it is no more
member of defined group
.
How to delete a group
You can delete a defined group. To remove proceed as followed:
1. Press CHART PLAN push button. Select Catalog from the menu.
2. Press Groups button in S57 Catalog dialog box. A Chart group dialog box appears.
3. Select desired group from Edit group list box.
4. Press Remove button. Confirm deleting a group, press OK.
How to select active group for viewing with catalog
To select active group proceed as follows:
1. Press CHART PLAN push button. Select
Catalog from the menu.
2. Press Groups button in S57 Catalog dialog
box.
3. Select desired group from Edit group list box.
4. In Active Group -field press Set button. The
name of active group appears to Active Group
-field.
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How to view active group with catalogue
To view active group proceed as follows:
1. Press CHART PLAN push button. Select
Catalog from the menu.
2. Select Group Chart in Catalogue dialog box. In
Catalogue window it is shown charts which are
member of active group.
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How to view status and date dependency of S57 Chart cells and their
updates
When you load S57 Chart cell(s) and/or their updates the system sets Display until of S57 Chart cell(s) as current
date of the System. To set Approve until as current date of the System you must open Date Dependent and perform
Approve Until. You can view status and date dependency of S57 Chart cells and their updates. To view status and
date dependency, proceed as followed:
1. Press CHART PLAN push button and select Date Dependent from the
menu.
2. A Date Dependent dialog box appears.
Recommended settings in Date Dependent are:
· Sync Manual Update Dates as ON position
· All SENCs ON position
RENC edt / upd : Column “RENC” contain edition/update status from Product List.
SENC edt / upd : Column “SENC” contain edition/update status from “SENC”, i.e. loaded and converted in the
ECDIS.
Updates displayed until: View the date until updates is displayed. You can enter desired date by using Display
until button. The number after date shows the number of updates involved to displayed cell (number of displayed
updates / number of updates in SENC format).
Updates approved until: View the date until updates is approved. You can enter desired date by using Approve
until button (number of approved updates / number of updates in SENC format).
The issue date of the used Product list is displayed as “Latest RENC Product List”. The RENC product list contains
information about charts stored in RENC the date when Product list was issued. If the ECDIS do not contain any
Product List, then the date of the Product List is displayed as “—NVLD—“.
A Mark “>>>” is used to indicate that a chart is not up-to-date. A Mark "<<<" is used to indicate that SENC
contains newer information than based on information in RENC Product list (You may need to load newer RENC
Product List). Cancelled charts are indicated as “cancelled” instead of “edtn/updn”. If SENC contain a cancelled
chart then the indication “>>>” is replaced by “XXX”.
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How to later use CD Catalogue created during load of S57 charts
The CD Catalogue was created during loading of S57 charts. A CD Catalogue contains important information from
the chart producer such as Publisher Notes and Summary of the charts. Sometimes you may need to load charts from
the CD-ROM. These things can be done as shown below.
1. Press CHART PLAN push button, select Load from the menu and
View loaded CD Catalog from submenu.
2. Select a named "CD Catalogue" you want to use in CD list box. The
content of the catalog appears as a list of charts in the list box and
information of source CD-ROM.
Note! If you also want to load chart, you must use the same "CD" as you used to make a named "CD Catalogue".
The system checks that the content of the CD-ROM is equal and in case of miss match following message appears:
How to view Publisher Notes and/or CD content Summary
You can view the Publisher notes as follows.
1. Press View CD Publisher Notes button in the S57 Load dialog box.
2. A viewer shows you the Publisher Notes of the selected "CD".
3. If you want to make a hard copy of Publisher Notes, select Print in the File menu.
4. To close this program, select in Exit in the File menu.
You can view the Summary of the content of the CD. See chapter "How to load S57 charts from a CD-ROM, floppy
or LAN" on page 61."
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How to remove S57 Charts from the system
To remove S57 format vector chart cell from the system, proceed as follows:
1. From the Control panel press Chart Plan push button.
2. Select Remove from the menu. There will appear a chart list dialog.
3. Select desired chart cells to remove them from the system. You can remove base cell (000), updates (001…)
and SENC format (snc).
4. Press Remove button. System will remove file(s) from the hard disk.
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Introduction to the S57 chart service from a RENC
Introduction
RENC concept is based on IHO standard S-63.
Before you can use RENC service, you have to be authorized as Customer of RENC. To be authorized you have to
contact official distributor (Chart Agent) of RENC. From a RENC you can get permits, charts and updates.
Permits
Permits are used to control the permission to use a chart. A permit in RENC security is connected to an edition.
Permits are issued as two different types
· Subscription Permit. These include updates for subsequent 12 months. It is assumed that a typical user is a
SOLAS class vessel, which is required to use up-to-date charts.
· One-Off Permit. These include only updates up to the issue date of the Permit. It is assumed that a typical user
is a non-SOLAS class vessel, which is not
Each Permit includes also the expiry date.
The expiry date of a Permit controls the ENC to SENC conversion. If the issue date of a chart or update is older or
equal to the Permit expiry date, then the system can convert an ENC into the SENC. There are no viewing time
limits as used in some other security systems such as ARCS. The user has a right to view a chart forever and more
over he has a right to convert a chart from its ENC format into the SENC forever.
A RENC can publish Permits in two different formats
· “*.pmt” format. This format does not include the applicable chart edition and does not
type.
· PERMIT.TXT format. This format does include the applicable chart edition and does include applicable permit
type.
required to use up-to-date charts.
include applicable permit
Both permit formats are fully operational, but the older “*.pmt” format creates confusion, because it cannot support
the user, when chart edition changes.
The system display warnings associated with expiry date. Examples are “will expire” warning 30 days before the
expiry date and “have expired” after the expiry date. These warning are relevant only for Subscription Permits.
Only the new PERMIT.TXT format support the system to suppress irrelevant warning associated with expiry date.
Product List
A Product List is maintained by a RENC. When you load charts using "Load By CD Catalogue", ECDIS will
automatically load Product list from the CD-ROM of a RENC. This list contains an up-to-date list of available
charts and their edition/update status in the RENC. When you load a CD-ROM from a RENC, the ECDIS checks
the issue date of the Product List. If the issue date indicates newer Product List, then it is copied into the ECDIS. If
the issue date indicates older Product List, then ECDIS shows a notice to the user that newer already loaded.
Authentication
Normally the authentication process is invisible for the user. Only if the Authentication fails, then the user gets
appropriate notice. From user point of view the Authentication is similar to CRC checksum test. If CRC checksum
test or Authentication fails then the chart is unusable.
Authentication uses private key and public key. A digital signature associated with each chart contains private key.
Public key is stored in the ECDIS and it is really public. RENC may publish a new public key. This public key will
be available as text by fax, by post, by front page of a newspaper etc. and as a text file called for example
PRIMAR.PUB. The day, when a RENC publish a new public key, will be similar milestone than the change of
millennium.
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Available service types
CD-Service
If you are using CD-Service, you receive from the RENC following:
· Base CD contain all Base Cells that are available in the RENC database when CD was released.
· Update CD contain all updates to the Base CD, but it will also contain any new Base Cells and New Edition, Re-
issues received from the contributing Hydrographic Offices. Update CD will be issued once a week.
If you want to enlarge your chart coverage, you have to contact your Distributor to order more permits for new
charts.
Subscription types
Charts and their Updates stored in RENC are decrypted and you have to get key (Permit) to load chart into the
ECDIS. There are two different kinds of Permit to choose suitable one for your purpose.
Subscription
Subscription period is 12 months and it starts when you order first Permit(s) from the RENC.
· User subscribes to a updating service
· Updating service has a renewable expiration date
· ENC is still available after expiration, but can not apply any new information
· User will receive during the service period:
· all updates issued to the ENC
· any re-issues for the ENC
· any new edition of the ENC
If you enlarge your chart coverage during your subscription period as shown above, will expire date of subscription
for all charts be the same date.
One-Off
If you use One-Off Permit, you order permit for chart and updates which are valid until date you order permit (i.e.
Chart is up-to-date when you ordered it). No more information can be retrieved for this chart, which is published
after order date.
One-Off Current Edition; permit for a chart, which is based on data on the hard disk of the ECDIS.
One-Off the latest Edition; permit for a chart, which is the latest available based on the Product List of a RENC.
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Service provided by a RENC
How to view the Coverage of the RENC service
Whenever you like to see Product List in graphical presentation, use Catalog to view it. The Catalog of S57 Chart
shows the situation when you loaded the latest BASE or UPDATE CD-ROM into the ECDIS.
Note, the ECDIS keeps automatically the latest available Product List. Thus the ECDIS do not load the Product List
if it is older than already loaded into the ECDIS.
1. Select Catalogue
Charts as RENC
2. Selection of
Displayed Charts
The chart limit boxes are colour coded as follows:
Green
Orange
Red
Blue
Magenta
The chart is available for use in SENC format. If the source of the chart is a RENC then the chart is
also up-to-date. If the source of the chart is something else than a RENC then all loaded updates are
included into the SENC.
The chart is available for use in SENC format but the chart is either not up-to-date or cancelled.
Either the SENC is from old edition, the SENC misses latest updates or the chart has been cancelled..
If the chart is permit free, you do not have it available for use in SENC format and thus you cannot use
the chart currently.
If the chart requires permit, you do not have the permit for the chart and you cannot use the chart
currently.
The chart is available either in ENC format, in SENC format for another software version or in SENC
format for another ECDIS. For example chart is blue during SENC conversion and if you loaded a
chart into the ECDIS and the system could not convert the chart into SENC format.
You have a permit to use the chart, but the chart is not available in SENC format and thus you cannot
use the chart currently.
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