PLTS for ArcGIS—Nautical Solution

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Latest Release Focuses on Maritime
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Hear Timothy Kearns [MP3], ESRI maritime deputy program manager, discuss how to enable your hydrographic office with enterprise GIS technology.

Key Features

PLTS for ArcGIS—Nautical Solution helps you manage nautical information systems and facilitate workflows that generate a variety of navigational products.

Some of the key features include

Data Management

  • Supports a nautical data model based on IHO S-57 objects and INT1 symbol categories
  • Enforces quality control through numerous 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

  • Leverages the Product Library to assist in organizing, storing, and providing access to a hydrographic agency's catalog of nautical products
  • Includes preconfigured symbols, grids and the 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 multiple personnel
  • Centrally manages and tracks units of work with simplified and standardized workflows

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.
example of data management

Leverage a product-neutral centralized database environment in managing and producing nautical products.

example of product management

Efficiently organize, store, and access nautical products via Product Library.

example of quality management

Ensure quality of your data through a variety of run-time and preconfigured validation checks.


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