Safe sailing with official nautical charts!

The Norwegian Hydrographic Service is responsible for surveying the Norwegian coast, including polar waters and for preparing and updating nautical charts and descriptions of these waters. The activities also include studies of tides and currents and publishing tide tables. The Norwegian Hydrographic Service has the operational responsibility for the international electronic nautical chart centre Primar Stavanger.

Office hours
8-15.45 (summer 8-15)

Address
Norwegian Hydrographic Service
Lervigsveien 36
4014 Stavanger

Postal address
Norwegian Hydrographic Service
Postbox 60
4001 Stavanger

Telephone
51 85 87 00

E-mail
sksk@statkart.no

50th UNB-OMB / UNH-CCOM Multibeam Sonar Training Course

The Norwegian Hydrographic Service is hosting the Multibeam Sonar training course in Stavanger from the 16- 21 March 2009
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Hydrographic survey data

The hydrographic survey data, traditionally called fair sheets, contain the soundings from the hydrographic survey. These data are used as basis for the NHS' digital and analogue chart products and are very detailed. It is therefore defined as classified material by the Armed Forces.
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Sea level data and tide modelling

Here are articles and reports on tide modelling, filtering of sea level data, calculation of nautical chart datum and Z0, etc.
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Breakthrough on proposal of mandatory ECDIS at NAV 54

A clear majority in favour of mandatory ECDIS implementation was expressed at the recent NAV 54 meeting of the sub-committee on safety of navigation of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) maritime safety committee (MSC).
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Martime geodata (primary data)

Maritime geodata or primary data consists of seamless bathymetry and coastline in a vector format. The data is continuously updated through input of new information from internal and external sources, and has been subjected to scale correction and generalisation only to a limited degree. In principal, this is our best, unclassified data and it has been subjected to extensive quality controls.
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Products

Product catalog (in Norwegian)
Indexmap (in Norwegian)

Electronic charts
Paper charts

ENC service

Services

Notices to Mariners
Norwegian tidal and sea level data