Desarrollo de la cartografía náutica electrónica en Colombia

Abstract

Inside the modernization processes and evolution of the current sailing, the electronic nautical cartography ENC becomes fundamental tool to achieve the efficiency in the route of the crafts and to increase the security of the human life in the sea. The integration of the ENC with the sailing sensors constitutes a great system through which you can plan, to carry out and control the movements of the ships. The present article presents a summary of the advances in the development of the Colombian Electronic nautical cartography which comes advancing the Dirección General Marítima through the CIOH. The main concepts and generalities of the ENC are described, as well as the advantages that can be had in the use of these systems; the above-mentioned framed inside the international norms that should be completed for the capture and production of the cells ENC. Finally it is schematized the organization, the production processes, quality control and validation that carnes out the group of Electronic Cartography that is responsible for the function of producing the cells based on the National Plan of electronic nautical cartography.