CARIS HPD 5.0

CARIS HPD (Hydrographic Production Database) by CARIS is an enterprise system for managing, editing, and producing hydrographic data and navigational products from a single, authoritative source. It centralizes vector features, bathymetry, and metadata in a versioned database, enabling multi-user workflows for creating and maintaining electronic navigational charts (ENCs), paper charts, and nautical publications. Designed for hydrographic offices and maritime agencies, HPD streamlines end-to-end production, enforces quality control, and supports consistent, repeatable updates across multiple products.

Key capabilities:

• Single-source, multi-user database for hydrographic features, bathymetry, and metadata with versioning and audit trails
• Standards support, including IHO S-57 and the S-100 series, with validation and portrayal tools
• Product-focused editing for ENC and paper chart compilation, cartographic generalization, and symbolization
• Workflow and change management to track edits, apply quality checks, and manage Notices to Mariners updates
• Multi-scale data management and product modeling to reuse content across different scales and formats
• Interoperable import/export and integration with other Teledyne CARIS solutions to fit into existing production pipelines

Who uses it:

• National hydrographic offices
• Defense and maritime agencies
• Organizations producing navigational charts and related publications

CARIS HPD is developed by CARIS. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0. The names of program executable files are caris_hpd_admin_tools.exe, caris_hpd_data_loader.exe, caris_hpd_paper_chart_editor.exe and caris_hpd_product_editor.exe.

You can check Scepter of Ra, CARIS Easy View, Hexacolor and other related programs like CARIS BASE Editor at the "download" section.