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34 st / May 2015 www.sea-technology.com displays vector nautical charts as query-able GeoServices REST services or OGC Web Map services. That gives the port access to dynamic querying on the rich data contained within ENCs, in order to assist with planning and domain awareness. Quay Wall Management A key asset maintained by PoR is their system of quays, the fxed walls of concrete, rock, and/or steel plate used for mooring the ships transferring goods. The PoR asset manag- ers also wanted to have a simple way to review their con- crete inspection and monitoring results within PortMaps. This required integration of SIMCO's inspection analysis tools and an easy interface, based on the three-clicks phi- losophy, to get to the right area and the elevation view of an- odes and core results. Esri Global worked closely with PoR and SIMCO to build this functionality, which can also be used in other AutoCAD-based (i.e., paper-space measure- ments) integrations. n Captain Guy Noll (retired) leads a group of project managers, solution teams and technical specialists at Esri focused on customer support of GIS imple- mentation across the maritime domain, including port operations and ocean science. Prior to Esri, Noll has more than 24 years of experience in science feet operational management, hydrographic survey and nautical charting technol- ogy with NOAA. Marten Hogeweg leads a team at Esri that develops products and solutions for spatial data infrastructures, open government and enterprise information shar- ing programs. He has extensive experience in geospatial industry standards and use of Web 2.0 technologies. He is also the project manager for Esri's work with the Port of Rotterdam. Since PoR is such a rapidly evolving navigational envi- ronment, the port generates its own set of ENCs to dissemi- nate the latest information to mariners. Esri Global and PoR used the ArcGIS for Maritime: Charting and QPS QINSy solution to combine information from various sources and produce ENC cells. To build the base information of the Nautical Informa- tion System (NIS), Esri Global frst imported ENC cells from the Dutch Hydrographic Offce and then augmented that information with PoR ENC cells and information from the Port Object Information System (POI). Since data editing happens constantly in the POI, Esri and the Port created a workfow for automatically updating the NIS several times per day from the POI authoritative information. Using the ArcGIS for Maritime: Charting solution, the port is able to export updated ENC cells for the entire port within a matter of minutes. In addition to giving those cells to the pilots and mariners within the ports, the ENCs feed into the PoR maritime chart server. The maritime chart server Integrate Communicate Process JouBeh is a leader in satellite communications and telemetry services, expertly supporting all your data collection, retrieval and processing needs. Learn more at Joubeh.com or contact us at oceans@joubeh.com Photo Credit: Michael Reimers, Consultant, Port Operations, Carnival Corporation. "Since PoR is such a rapidly evolving navigational environment, the port generates its own set of ENCs to disseminate the latest information to mariners."