Henry Charting System

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Henry is a robust, feature-rich Geographic Information System (GIS) trusted by some of the maritime industry's biggest names. Henry offers a unique mix of geospatial and cartographic functionality that has found dedicated users in all corners of the marine industry, from hydrographic offices and cartographers to shipping companies and navigators.

If you have complex data to visualise or need to manage thousands of pieces of data, Henry is exceptionally good at displaying it clearly and quickly, giving meaning to your data.

Henry runs on Microsoft Windows XP or later (including Windows 8.1).

Advantages

Displays information over lots of different chart types at the same time
Overlay georeferenced aerial or satellite imagery on charts
Stores, assesses and brings together hundreds of pieces of raw data quickly and easily
Simplifies digital chart management and displays ARCS charts undistorted
Displays almost all types of charts and supports a wide range of chart formats
Integrated Tides Database and Pay As You Sail functionality
Simultaneous viewing of the same file set by multiple users
Zoom and pan the display at the same time

Example applications

Route planning for large vessels and containers in the oil industry
Fleet vessel monitoring for off-shore industries, such as work boats servicing wind farms
The verification of new chart data by hydrographic offices

As a GIS system with a marine focus

The accurate geodesy and attention to detail in Henry makes it popular with hydrographic offices for verifying new chart data. Henry is one of the only chart tools to display ARCS charts undistorted, using the original projection and including the original marginalia.

Henry has comprehensive support for chart data formats, datums and grids. It supports a variety of sources of geospatial data, and can overlay georeferenced aerial or satellite imagery on charts.

Henry can display AIS and ARPA data from NMEA files, and geospatial data stored in spreadsheets. For more complex needs, Henry has an SDK that allows the import and export of data to be automated.

For fleet management and monitoring

Achieve unprecedented insight by using Henry to integrate live position data with piracy and navigational safety reports. This data enables proactive decision-making and risk management.

Henry can receive and plot position updates from your fleet via ARPA, AIS or various satellite communication systems, giving your organisation real-time visibility into fleet operations.

Contact us to discuss how Henry can meet your needs for fleet management and monitoring, or download a demonstration version.

At sea

NMEA GPS integration and support for route planning and monitoring means that Henry can be a key asset on any ship's bridge.
Support for ADMIRALTY Digital Publications puts crucial navigational information at the mariner's fingertips.
Intelligent decluttering promotes situational awareness by prioritising information the mariner needs.
Henry can plot and monitor efficient search patterns for seaborne and airborne search and rescue operations.

Contact us to learn more about how Henry can help mariners make the best possible decisions, or download a demonstration version.

For ENC management and updating

Sail through port state inspections with automatic management of your ENC portfolio.

Henry uses our Universal Chart Server, bringing together the latest ENCs from AVCS, PRIMAR® and NOAA® and delivering them seamlessly to your vessel or onshore operations centre. Our patented ENC compression technology enables onboard chart portfolios to be updated efficiently, saving on time and bandwidth costs.

Contact us to learn more about how Henry can simplify management of your digital nautical charts, or download a demonstration version

Supporting digital chart production

Supported chart formats

ENC, S63, ARCS, AML, NTF, HCRF, Shapefiles, BSB, ASRP, CRP, GRP, CADRG, CIB, GeoTIFF, VPF (DNC, VMap, UVMap), manually georeferenced images such as aerial photographs.

Henry is a powerful tool for quality assurance of digital charts.

Henry can display S-57 ENCs in strict accordance with the ECDIS performance standards, allowing digital cartographers to test and verify their ENCs during production. Aerial photographs, satellite imagery, and other sources of data can be overlaid onto ENCs, making quality assurance less onerous and more rigorous.

Comprehensive and adaptable toolkit

Henry is a comprehensive toolkit, consisting of many parts that can be used in a wide range of applications in the marine industry.
You can purchase Henry as a complete, ready-made system or as a custom-built system from a combination of parts of Henry.

Dedicated support

If you need any help installing or using Henry, we have a dedicated support website, which you can find here.

Our expertise

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