Get started with ArcGIS Maritime

Available with ArcGIS Maritime license.

ArcGIS Maritime is a system for managing and producing maritime data compliant with the International Hydrographic Organization's (IHO) S-100 series of standards and S-57, as well as the MIL-PRF-89023 performance specification for Digital Nautical Chart (DNC).

ArcGIS Maritime provides tools for creating a maritime database, importing data, symbolizing data, editing data, and exporting products.

License:

The following licenses are required for some workflows:

  • An active ArcGIS Production Mapping license is required for paper charting workflows. The Production Mapping license is included with the ArcGIS Maritime extension.
  • An active ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension license is required for generating depth areas workflows.
  • An active ArcGIS Bathymetry license is required for sounding selection and shallow-bias contouring workflows.

Learn more about ArcGIS Pro licensing

The following sections describe additional capabilities of the ArcGIS Maritime extension.

S-57

You can do the following for the S-57 standard:

DNC

You can do the following for DNC production:

S-100

You can do the following for the S-100 standard:

Paper charting

You can do the following for paper chart production:

Supported product specifications

ArcGIS Maritime supports the following IHO product specifications in ArcGIS Pro 3.5:

  • ENC 3.1.3
  • IENC 2.5
  • bIENC 2.4
  • AML 3.0
  • CLB 2.1
  • ESB 2.1
  • LBO 2.1
  • MFF 2.1
  • RAL 2.1
  • SBO 2.1
  • S-4
  • S-58 8.0.0
  • S-101 2.0.0

Learn more about ArcGIS Maritime data models that support these specifications