PRIMAR ENC Validation Workshop 2016
A couple of ENC Validation workshops has taken place at the PRIMAR offices in Stavanger recently. The participants received various modules with presentations and exercises to prepare them for the job.
On 5-7 April 2016 PRIMAR held an ENC Validation Workshop in Stavanger for 3 representatives from MGI in Albania. Full presentations of ENC Validation tools used in PRIMAR were given. The Workshop consists of 9 modules with presentations and exercises.
On the 26 and 27 May 2016 an ENC Validation Workshop was held for Russia and Finland.
From 31 May – 2 June 2016 a delegation of 3 people from VPN in Vietnam attended a PRIMAR ENC Validation Workshop in Stavanger. They were given training in the PRIMAR ENC online Data Management Systems including ENC validation using the PRIMAR Validation Report Checker.
Technical Expert Working Group (TEWG) Meeting 2016
The 14th PRIMAR TEWG meeting was held in Stavanger 24 and 25 May 2016. 30 participants from hydrographic offices and software suppliers attended the meeting. Topics that were covered were new WEB Data Management tools in PRIMAR and also ENC data overlap. A general update from PRIMAR was also given. S-58, S-101 and S-102 were also covered and demonstration of S-57 to S-101 data converting was shown.