Denmark has challenging seascapes to map and chart.
Denmark has a rich history of nautical charting that dates back to the seventeenth century, and many of its navigational products for Greenland were created in the 1960s.
The information on those charts was good and sufficient for traditional navigation, but when GPS started to gain prominence in shipping in the 1990s and early 2000s, hydrographic offices around the world had to start producing Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs).
But Denmark’s existing data—especially farther north, around Greenland—didn’t line up with GPS points or new high-quality multibeam sonar readings.
So the hydrographic office at the Danish Geodata Agency (known by its Danish acronym GST) needed to take a different approach.
But the division kept all its nautical data in separate files, and that was difficult to update. Within a few years, the Greenland group at GST turned to Esri to get help with creating a central, enterprise-wide geodatabase for all the data portrayed on both its paper and electronic charts.
For Greenland, the group implemented what is now called ArcGIS for Maritime: Charting, a complete system for managing and producing maritime data and products.
Maritime: Charting stores all the data in Esri’s Nautical Information System (NIS), an enterprise geodatabase, which makes it easier to create data products and incorporate automation.
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Great team effort!
Kudos to @Rafael Ponce Urbina @Kevin Twombly for PS Business Development, @Nick Land and @Jeff Donze Donze for GBD, @Steve Snow for working the ArcNews story, Blog and case study with Rafael, @Citabria Stevens and @Matt Ball and Denmark GST, @Craig Greene Product Manager for the innovation and product leadership, @Kevin Ingram for onsite support, and @Guy Noll for Maritime leadership.
