Electronic Chart Standards: IHO ECDIS and ENC

Article by Seyed Behbood Issa-Zadeh & Claudia Lizette Garay-Rondero

Found on YouTube:

Tom Mellor - C​hairman of the IHO Electronic Navigational Chart Working Group (ENC WG) and Head of Digital Standards at the UKHO - explains what the IHO's ECDIS and ENC Standards mean.

Another very good explanatory video by Knud Benedict. Absolutely worth seeing.
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