Technical aspects of data acquisition and display
Figure 4 - Torres Strait area showing full underlymg dataset where ENC cells exist.
Conclusions
The promised benefits to the environment from safer navigation
provided by authorized ENCs wirhin an approved ECDIS system are
overwhelming. We are potentially all winners! So is the environment!
The cartographic paradigm for marine cartography is shifting from a
more subjective and perhaps narrower professional role to one that is
more general, or wider, and more objective in its professionalism. ENC
compilers will be required to be more eclectic in their thinking and
will be able to project forward as they work to the multiple uses their
work will be put. They need to be acutely aware of the needs of the
mariner. As one wit has said, “we are at the bleeding edge”! If that is
the case then the experiences are presently being written in blood, but
finally, they are being written and we are rising to meet the challenges!
The environment and the safety of vessels and their crews should all
benefit as should the ship owners. Potentially a “win-win” for all
concerned, arising out of the imperative for electronic charts which in
turn leads to better charts.
Bibliographic references
Fries P, 1999- Ripple effect: 10 years after the Exxon Valdez. Aust.
Financial Rev. Mag., April.
147
Figure 4 - Torres Strait area showing full underlymg dataset where ENC cells exist.
Conclusions
The promised benefits to the environment from safer navigation
provided by authorized ENCs wirhin an approved ECDIS system are
overwhelming. We are potentially all winners! So is the environment!
The cartographic paradigm for marine cartography is shifting from a
more subjective and perhaps narrower professional role to one that is
more general, or wider, and more objective in its professionalism. ENC
compilers will be required to be more eclectic in their thinking and
will be able to project forward as they work to the multiple uses their
work will be put. They need to be acutely aware of the needs of the
mariner. As one wit has said, “we are at the bleeding edge”! If that is
the case then the experiences are presently being written in blood, but
finally, they are being written and we are rising to meet the challenges!
The environment and the safety of vessels and their crews should all
benefit as should the ship owners. Potentially a “win-win” for all
concerned, arising out of the imperative for electronic charts which in
turn leads to better charts.
Bibliographic references
Fries P, 1999- Ripple effect: 10 years after the Exxon Valdez. Aust.
Financial Rev. Mag., April.
147