Improvements for Marine Themes Dataset

OceanWise, UK, has addressed the challenge of combining the fragmented features present in nautical charting and existing chart-derived products. Customers who have migrated to OceanWise’s innovative Marine Themes dataset will now see even bigger benefits, as the irregular coverage and multi-scale levels of traditional charting have been overcome.

OceanWise states that, in comparative tests, users are impressed by the simplicity and cleanliness of Marine Themes compared with complexity and fragmented geometry that results from ‘cookie cutting’ multiple charts. The new technique retains the features that are often totally removed by blanket cookie cutting and provides an audit trail to source data unique identifiers (S-57 FOIDs), providing quicker and more reliable updates.

Marine Themes Elevation Layers, which are also edge matched, or OceanWise’s Marine Themes Digital Elevation Model (DEM), make Marine Themes an advanced marine dataset for use in desktop and Web GIS. Marine Themes is available direct from OceanWise for all UK public sector customers and from a range of distributors, who add third-party datasets and other value, such as web services. To serve customers in its growing European markets, OceanWise has signed up two new distributors – Geomod from France and Digimap (UK) – who are already making significant progress. To compliment Marine Themes, new web services (WMS and WFS) using raster and vector nautical charting are also in development.

Ocean Business

If you would like a demonstration of Marine Themes or the DEM, and learn more about their creation or the company’s other marine data products and services, OceanWise is exhibiting at Ocean Business in Southampton 9-11 April 2013. For more information or to book an appointment at Ocean Business, please contact OceanWise on.