Digital charts and publications
AdmiraltyADMIRALTY Digital Charts
The Admiralty digital chart service offers the world’s most complete official maritime chart coverage. The digital charts can be supplied in two distinct formats.
AVCS and ARCS
The ADMIRALTY raster chart service uses the same imagery and symbols as found on the Admiralty Standard Navigation charts thus providing the mariner with a familiar feel to the traditional paper charts. This combined with accurate satellite positioning provided by an electronic chart system (ECS) or ECDIS navigation system can provide the mariner with situational awareness and a tool to better understand critical information when most required.
Weekly updates, provided either via CD or the internet ensure that the mariner or shore based company has access to complete and up to date information. Having the updates loaded electronically saves time and reduces chances of errors that can occur with manual updating of paper charts.
The ARCS charts can be licenced on a chart by chart basis thereby providing flexibility in your ordering of charts as you only licence what you need!
The ADMIRALTY Vector Chart Service (AVCS) is the most comprehensive, official, digital maritime chart service in the world; with over 13,800 Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) from hydrographic offices around the world, packaged and quality assured by the UKHO into a single value-added service.
The most comprehensive global coverage available
AVCS provides the most extensive official coverage, allowing ships to navigate on ECDIS for the entirety of most major routes on a single chart service. This coverage includes 4,000 of the biggest and busiest ports worldwide, of which we offer unique coverage for over 150.
100% official, certification provided
All ENCs in AVCS meet the mandatory chart carriage requirements of SOLAS Chapter V, with certificates provided for local inspection.
All AVCS customers will also receive weekly ENC updates by internet download, email or disc. Installing the latest updates on a regular basis supports safe navigation and compliance with flag and port state requirements.
Operates on all ECDIS makes
AVCS is delivered in industry standard S-63 / S57 formats, guaranteeing compatibility with all ECDIS sold today – even in a mixed fleet.
AVCS S-63 Edition 1.1 also meets the latest authorized data protection standard from the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), designed to reduce the risk of both data piracy and the distribution of unofficial, dangerous ENCs to the mariner.
Free unique ADMIRALTY Information Overlay feature
To help bridge crews recognize areas of possible navigational vagueness and risk at the crucial passage planning stage, all AVCS customers receive the unique ADMIRALTY Information Overlay (AIO) at no extra cost. Combining all UKHO Temporary and Preliminary Notices to Mariners (T&P NMs) for all ADMIRALTY Standard Nautical Charts, and ENC Preliminary Notice to Mariners (EP NMs), AIO is displayed as a single layer on top of an ENC.
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ADMIRALTY Digital Publications
ADMIRALTY Digital Publications (ADP) are computer-based applications of the UKHO’s market-leading paper-based nautical reference guides – ADMIRALTY Nautical Publications.
Capitalising on the UKHO’s expertise, the ADP portfolio helps the mariner to transition from paper-based nautical publications to improved digital versions
Approved by the Flag States of over 80% of ships trading internationally, ADP applications provide the same level of compliance as traditional ADMIRALTY paper-based publications, for ships trading under these Flag States.
Easy to use and clearly displayed using a growing number of back-of-bridge software, including ADMIRALTY Planning Station, ADP applications can be viewed as a single layer on top of official navigational charts.
All ADP applications provide global coverage, and are divided into regions to provide flexibility and simplicity.
Aiding ongoing safety, security and compliance, ADRS helps the mariner to manage communications and meet reporting regulations. ADMIRALTY List of Radio Signals is the world’s most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on all aspects of maritime radio communication.
ADMIRALTY Total Tide helps the mariner take full advantage of favourable tides – allowing them to calculate safe clearances, making departure, arrival and transit planning easier. Reducing risks to ships, cargo and crew, ATT enables quicker and more informed decisions to be made on the bridge about key commercial and safety issues.
ADMIRALTY e-Nautical Publications (AENPs) are official ADMIRALTY Nautical publications available as e-books. Easy to use and update, they bring improved efficiency, accuracy and access to information the mariner needs.
The most comprehensive worldwide source of navigational light and fog signal information. Keeping the mariner informed, compliant and up-to-date, ADLL contains comprehensive coverage of more than 85,000 individual light structures, including lighthouses, lightships, lit floating marks and fog signals.
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