Key Features

Esri Nautical Solution helps you manage nautical information systems, facilitate workflows, and efficiently generate a variety of navigational products.

Data Management

• Provides a centralized, spatial database that is independent from a relational database management system and enables simultaneous editing by multiple users, significantly increasing productivity
• Enforces quality control through numerous International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-58 validation checks
• Enables hydrographic agencies to archive and retrieve historical changes to features
• Provides a suite of sophisticated tools for nautical chart production including tools for editing, visualizing, and analyzing spatial information

Product Management

• Provides a true database-driven cartography production environment that supports IHO M4 and S-57 standards for navigational products and is highly configurable for national representation standards
• Leverages Product Library to assist in organizing, storing, and providing access to a hydrographic agency's catalog of nautical products
• Includes preconfigured symbols, grids, and attribute–level rule bases to define symbology
• Integrates the data editing and product finishing environments in a single application with multiple views on information
• Works in conjunction with other ArcGIS products to enhance the visualization and reporting experience

Workflow Management

• Provides a desktop or Web-based solution for deploying and receiving assignments to resources
• Tracks and archives feature modifications across multiple databases by numerous personnel
• Centrally manages and tracks units of work with standard, repeatable workflows across the enterprise

Quality Management

• Run-time and preconfigured automated validation checks maintain data quality.
• Multiuser, versioned environment allows reliable and efficient editing for coincident geography.
• Archival tools ensure accurate accountability.