Electronic Navigational Chart Change Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20218v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:14:02 GMT
• Title: Electronic Navigational Chart Change Classification
• Abstract summary: A major challenge for hydrographic offices is determining whether a given chart change poses a critical or non-critical risk to maritime safety.<n>We propose a method for automated classification of ENC changes.<n>We evaluate the proposed approach across two distinct operational datasets.
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• Abstract: Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) are geospatial vector datasets used in maritime navigation systems that represent hydrographic and navigational information such as depths, navigational aids, traffic schemes, and hazards. A major challenge for hydrographic offices is determining whether a given chart change poses a critical or non-critical risk to maritime safety. Existing workflows rely heavily on manual review and verification, which is labor-intensive, scales poorly with the volume of incoming chart updates, and introduces inter-analyst inconsistencies. To address this challenge, we propose a method for automated classification of ENC changes. We establish a baseline encoding scheme to translate complex vector data changes into a structured tabular format for classification models. The two crucial components of the encoding scheme include a spatial context encoder to enrich the change representations with surrounding geographic features, and an ENC attribute encoder to represent nuanced attribute-value descriptions of the modified objects. We evaluate the proposed approach across two distinct operational datasets, comprising 1,308 chart pairs containing over 100,000 individual chart modifications. Tuned gradient-boosted trees leveraging the proposed encoding schemes achieve accuracies of 90% and 94% on the two datasets, yielding a 5-7% improvement over default hyperparameterized models trained on encodings without spatial context and attribute embeddings. These results demonstrate the viability of integrating machine learning into operational geospatial pipelines to improve ENC maintenance and enhance maritime safety. Finally, our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of simple location and spatial aggregation methods, providing a foundation for evaluating more sophisticated spatial representation learning techniques for this application.

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