1. CARIS S-57 Composer An Introduction
Fredericton – Canada • Heeswijk – The Netherlands • Washington DC – United States • Adelaide – Australia

2. Key Features New CARIS vector desktop editor
The basis of future CARIS desktop vector editing capabilities
Uses the latest CARIS technologies for Importing, Mapping, Editing, Quality Assurance and Export
Easily create multiple S-57 dataset formats
ENC (3.1 & 3.1.1)
AML (1.0 & 2.1)
IENC (International 2.0 and USACE)
Users can easily modify, create and add new dataset formats
Marine Information Overlays (MIO)
Digital Survey Sheets (DSS)

3. Support For Many Data Formats
Open a wide range of file types
Vector
S-57, VPF, CARIS, HOB, DXF, DGN, SHP ...
Raster
BSB, HCRF, CRL, ECW, GeoTIFF, TFW, JPEG2000, MrSID ...
Grab background geometry or digitise from raster

4. Product Based

5. Import and Map to S-57 User customisable mapping files
DNC > ENC and reverse
AML 1.0 > 2.1
CARIS feature to S-57 (fea2obj)

6. More Tools Object Import Utility Clip and Copy to Scratch layer
Extensive Spatial and Object Editing Tools

7. Validation
Validation Tests
S-58 and User customisable XML

8. Future Plans - Version 2.0 June 2008 Create S-57 Updates and Reissues
Major rewrite of CARIS S-57 Update creation technology
‘Pilot Chart’ Creation
aka BathyENC, High Density ENC etc ...
Automatic conflation of HPD (‘Base cell’) and BDB (new bathymetry) data into the product
Automatic connection and extraction from HPD and BDB
Also used for CLB AMLs
Create New Edition from ‘template’
Use S-57, HOB or CARIS HOM files to easily start a product
Populates metadata and imports data ‘ready to go’

9. Some Future Plans Version 3.0 Version ?
Automatic creation of Meta Objects from external Metadata sources
GUI Editor for XML support files (catalogues, profiles etc)
CARIS NoteBook Markers integration
Version ?
Tight integration with CARIS HPD ENC and AML Editors