{"id":1772,"date":"2026-10-29T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:28:08","slug":"vdes-and-ecdis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/vdes-and-ecdis\/","title":{"rendered":"VDES and ECDIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may wonder how VDES will be able to display all the new data products that can be transported over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In MSC.530(106)\/Rev. 1, IMO in May 2024 adopted to delegate to IHO the &#8220;Requirements for structure, format, encryption [and] presentation&#8221; of the &#8220;Electroninc navigational data services&#8221;, which is the data provided by authorities to be used on top of the actual navigational charts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Examples are: dynamic Ice Information, Marine Weather, marine Aids to Navigation, Traffic Management, navigational Warnings, Surface Currents, Protected Areas,  Radio Services, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"867\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-1024x867.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-1024x867.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-768x650.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-1536x1301.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-2048x1734.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-1200x1016.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-1980x1676.png 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The transport of these new S-100 data formats on the ship is now defined through the SECOM Terminal Interface, as defined in IEC 63173-2 Ed. 2 CDV, Chapter 11. IMO MSC.530(106) requires this to be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So when we use VDES for the transport of S-100 we should consider this interface to the ECDIS\/INS world, to allow the user to make use of that data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The good news is that IHO also defines all about displaying, so that data and display definitions are together in the S-100 products, and it should be clear how that is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IALA S-230 may be the vessel to add VDES native messages (IALA R1027 VPFI) and VDES Application Specific Messages (ASM) to that model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">References:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liscr.com\/marketing\/liscr\/media\/liscr\/online%20library\/Maritime\/Res-MSC-530(106).pdf\">MSC.530(106)\/Rev.1<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/iho.int\/uploads\/user\/About%20IHO\/Council\/S-100_ImplementationStrategy\/S-100%20Roadmap_Annex_2_v5.0_July2025.pdf\">IHO S-100 Roadmap, Annex 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may wonder how VDES will be able to display all the new data products that can be transported over it. In MSC.530(106)\/Rev. 1, IMO in May 2024 adopted to delegate to IHO the &#8220;Requirements for structure, format, encryption [and] presentation&#8221; of the &#8220;Electroninc navigational data services&#8221;, which is the data provided by authorities to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-about-vdes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vdes-alliance.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}