Laser-Scan Support for UKHO
Laser-Scan has signed a contract with the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO), Ministry of Defence, for the support and maintenance of key operational production systems.
The contract provides the UKHO with continued maintenance for two years to support chart production systems covering 3,300 charts. This includes both the Standard Navigational charts in paper form, and raster as the Admiralty Raster Chart Service (ARCS). The arrangement incorporates a Site Licence that will allow the UKHO to flexibly deploy and extend their existing application licences to meet developing operational scenarios. The support and maintenance element includes the application and database architecture suite known as Integrated Production Support (IPS) for publishing nautical information. This integrates Gothic data, Oracle data, modelling tools and management of metadata for 3,000 charts, maintaining records for 80,000 navigational lights, computing tide predictions, magnetic variations and various other processes.
