The Bathy DataBASE suite is one of the elements of Teledyne CARIS’s database-driven approach to data management.
BASE Editor™ is the core application in the Bathy DataBASE1 (BDB™) suite of products. It provides a rich toolset for bathymetric and topographic data preparation, analysis, and compilation.
The BASE Editor application leverages the latest Teledyne CARIS2 technology to allow it to work effectively with modern high density and high volume survey data. Typically, the latest surveys are brought into BASE Editor and analyzed in conjunction with historical data along with georeferenced imagery and vector maps such as ENCs. Through an analysis process, the survey data is vetted, prepared and then used to extract new information to be incorporated in a new product.
Examples of tasks that can be accomplished in BASE Editor are:
• open or import high volume multi-beam data as a gridded surface,
• open or import laserscan or lidar data as a point cloud,
• create, cut, append, and densify TIN structures,
• combine two or more gridded surfaces or point clouds together using a hierarchy of rules to create a mosaic,
• perform differencing that compares attributes in one surface to the same attributes in another surface,
• apply vertical datum offsets or horizontal coordinate system transformations, and
• create soundings, contours, depth areas and other features from scratch or from points in the source data.
The Bathy DataBASE suite is one of the elements of Teledyne CARIS’s database-driven approach to data management.
The following optional licensed modules are available on the CARIS BASE Editor application:
• BASE Manager™
• Engineering Analysis Module™ (EAM™)
• Limits and Boundaries Module™ (LBM)
BASE Manager
BASE Manager is an optional module available on BASE Editor that provides the ability to access and manage data in the Bathy DataBASE Server™. The Bathy DataBASE Server is a data management system that utilizes robust relational database storage technology to effectively manage large volumes of point cloud and gridded data sources.
Tools for loading, querying, editing and exporting sources in the database are available via the BASE Manager module. Additional processes such as Combine and the generation of features for chart production also can be run directly on database content.
When working together, the BASE Manager (the client) and the Bathy DataBASE Server (the server) become a client-server bathymetric data management system.
Engineering Analysis
Engineering Analysis is an optional module on BASE Editor that provides specialized tools for analyzing maintained areas, such as ports and waterways, against a theoretical 3-D model. The model can be as simple as an infinite horizontal plane, or it can be a complicated model created as part of the Engineering Analysis module or in other third party tools.
Once the model is defined, you can run a number of tools to analyze how well the bathymetric data conforms to the model. If there are shoal areas, there is a streamlined workflow available for reporting these exceptions to the public, or to dredgers. Volumes can be calculated for a number of different contexts, including post-dredge payment.
Limits and Boundaries
The Limits and Boundaries Module™ (LBM) tools in CARIS BASE Editor™ let you generate maritime limits of various widths. Limit lines are created from a baseline, which is an approximate model of the coastline.
1 This term is a trademark of CARIS (Universal Systems Ltd.), Reg.USPTO
2 This term is a trademark of CARIS (Universal Systems Ltd.), Reg. USPTO & CIPO.