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A Framework for Electronic Navigational Chart Systems Based on the Web  

Lee Seong-Dae (한국해양대학교 대학원 컴퓨터공학과)
Park Hyu-Chan (한국해양대학교 IT공학부)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.10, no.8, 2006 , pp. 1449-1458 More about this Journal
Abstract
Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) are digital charts which contain a great variety of data on coast and sea regions. Although they contain much information that ordinary people are interested in, there is no easy way to access because they are coded in the specialized data forma, and can be visualized by using specialized system. Therefore, supporting systems need to be developed for ordinary people to easily access ENCs. This paper proposes a framework for the ENC systems based on the Web. It relies on quite general standards such as Ceography Markup Language (GML) and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). In the framework, ENCs coded in S-57 format are first translated into GML to be stored in a database. Once the database is built, users can request to the database what they want. According to the user request, relevant data are retrieved, and then translated into SVG to be displayed on the Web browser. By using the framework, ordinary people may easily access coast and sea information contained in the ENCs. Furthermore, the framework may provide interoperability by virtue of XML-based standards such as GML and SVG, and efficiency by virtue of database. To validate the feasibility of proposed framework, a prototype system is developed and tested.
Keywords
S-57; ENC; GML; SVG;
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