EncDotNet.S100.Datasets.S111 0.25.1

EncDotNet.S100.Datasets.S111

This package reads S-111 Surface Currents datasets from HDF5 files: current grids per time step, and time series at stations or mesh nodes. It also draws them as arrows with the S-111 portrayal catalogue and validates them against the S-111 Edition 2.0.0 checklist. Reference it when you need current speeds and directions directly. To open and render a dataset without wiring catalogues yourself, use the EncDotNet.S100 package instead.

Install

dotnet add package EncDotNet.S100.Datasets.S111
dotnet add package EncDotNet.S100.Hdf5.PureHdf

EncDotNet.S100.Hdf5.PureHdf provides the HDF5 reader the example uses.

Read a dataset

A file holds either a regular grid per time step or a series of values per station. ReadAny returns whichever the file contains:

using EncDotNet.S100.Datasets.S111;
using EncDotNet.S100.Hdf5.PureHdf;

using var file = PureHdfFile.Open("path/to/dataset.h5");

switch (S111DatasetReader.ReadAny(file))
{
    case S111DatasetData.GriddedCoverage gridded:
        foreach (SurfaceCurrentCoverage step in gridded.Dataset.Coverages.Take(3))
            Console.WriteLine($"{step.TimePoint:u}: {step.Values.Length} cells");
        break;

    case S111DatasetData.StationSeries stations:
        foreach (SurfaceCurrentStation station in stations.Dataset.Stations)
            Console.WriteLine($"{station.Identifier}: {station.NumberOfTimes} samples");
        break;
}

Speeds are in knots on every path, as S-111 encodes surfaceCurrentSpeed: SurfaceCurrentValue.Speed for grids and SurfaceCurrentStation.SpeedsKnots for stations. Nothing is converted on read. Directions are in degrees true, the direction the current flows towards. For more, see Reading product data.

Main types

• S111Dataset: a gridded dataset, with its horizontal CRS, depth, data coding format and one coverage per time step.
• S111DatasetReader: reads data coding formats 1, 2, 3 and 8. For format 1, each Group_NNN/timePoint is the timestamp, and the time-major values are transposed into per-node series. The reader ignores instance cadence metadata that conflicts with those timestamps, which occurs in production IC-ENC files.
• S111ReadOptions: read options. DeferValueReads reads the values of each time step only when you first use them, for format 2 grids. See Read values on demand.
• SurfaceCurrentCoverage, SurfaceCurrentValue and SurfaceCurrentStation: a grid at one time step, its values, and one station's series.
• S111CoverageSource: the ICoverageSource for the coverage pipeline.
• S111PortrayalCatalogue: the arrow portrayal. See Portrayal.
• S111SpeedBandReader: reads the nine speed bands and three scale constants from the bundled Rules/select_arrow.xsl.

The S111DatasetProcessor that renders, samples and validates a dataset is in EncDotNet.S100.Datasets.Pipelines.

Read values on demand

With DeferValueReads, the reader reads only the instance metadata up front:

var data = S111DatasetReader.ReadAny(file, new S111ReadOptions { DeferValueReads = true });

Each time step's values compound is read the first time you access it. Time points are calculated as dateTimeOfFirstRecord + i × timeRecordInterval (S-111 Edition 2.0.0 §10.2.6), so opening the file doesn't read every Group_NNN. SurfaceCurrentCoverage.Values decodes the array under a lock on first access and keeps it. Deferral applies to format 2 grids. Station series (formats 1, 3 and 8) are always read in full.

Keep the file open while you use deferred values. S111DatasetProcessor defers format 2 reads, so it keeps the HDF5 file or stream open and implements IDisposable. Dispose the processor to release the file. A processor for a station series reads everything and closes the file straight away.

Portrayal

S111PortrayalCatalogue uses the IHO portrayal catalogue bundled in content/S111/pc/ of EncDotNet.S100.Specifications:

• Speed bands and scale constants come from Rules/select_arrow.xsl. S111SpeedBandReader parses it on first use, and each catalogue instance caches the result. The stylesheet defines the nine SurfaceCurrentSpeedBand{N} ranges, which map to colour tokens SCBN{N} and SVG symbols SCAROW0{N}, and the scaleFloor, scaleCeiling and scaleFactorIntermediate variables. None of these values are in C#.
• Day, Dusk and Night palettes come from ColorProfiles/colorProfile.xml. SwitchPaletteAsync(PaletteType) selects one, and ResolveSymbolScheme and ActivePalette reflect the change straight away. Call it before ResolveSymbolScheme, which needs the speed bands it loads.

ResolveColorScheme returns null: the catalogue defines arrows only, with no <coverageFill> instruction for surfaceCurrentSpeed. A colour fill synthesised from the speed bands would hide the S-101 chart underneath. Each band's colour travels with its arrow SVG through the fSCBN{N} CSS class, and MapsuiCoverageArrowRenderer resolves that token against the active palette.

Arrows

Every data coding format is drawn with the catalogue's SCAROW arrows:

• Format 2 grids go through MapsuiCoverageArrowRenderer in the viewer and SkiaCoverageArrowRenderer in headless rendering (s100 render).
• Station series and ungeorectified meshes (formats 1, 3 and 8) go through the glyph sub-layer of S111DatasetProcessor.

Both draw one symbol per node that survives thinning, rasterised at screen DPI so arrows stay sharp and keep the same on-screen size at every zoom (S-111 §9.2.4 sizes arrows in millimetres on the display). Opening an S-111 dataset needs the S-111 portrayal catalogue; there's no fallback symbology without it.

Conformance to the specifications

How this package follows S-111 Edition 2.0.0, its portrayal catalogue, and S-98 Edition 2.0.0:

Implementation choices

Where the specifications leave a choice to the implementer:

• Rmax = 0.5 (SymbolThinning.DefaultMaxSymbolToSpacingRatio) for grids and points. This is the value S-111 and S-98 recommend. The drawn cell diagonal is then at least twice the largest arrow, so arrows don't overlap.
• Seed point. The thinning lattice is seeded at the fastest current among the largest arrows in view, not at the first largest arrow in row order. The two only differ in breaking ties: below 2 kn every arrow has the Slow size, so a seed in row order would make the lattice jump whenever panning changed the top-left cell. S-98 G-1.1 allows adapting the seed.
• Displayed field. Lsmax and the seed are taken over the view grown by half the largest arrow, so arrows whose pivot is slightly off screen still show.
• Point clearance. S-111 §9.3.2 doesn't define "overlap". A kept arrow of length L (the longer of the pair) clears a radius of L / (Rmax · √2), the nearest-neighbour spacing of a thinned square grid. Meshes and grids therefore thin to the same minimum spacing, about 1.41 arrow lengths, and arrows don't overlap. Points are visited fastest first. Thinning runs over every node, not only the visible ones, so the selection changes with zoom but not while panning.
• Millimetres to pixels. Arrow lengths are converted at 96 DPI (SymbolThinning.PixelsPerMillimetre), the scale at which Mapsui and Svg.Skia rasterise the SVGs, which are sized in millimetres.
• Symbol scale. RenderContext.SymbolScale multiplies Href. It's the Symbol Scale setting in SoundCharts and --symbol-scale in s100 render. Annex H Rule 12 suggests letting the user choose Href and Sref. Thinning uses the scaled length, so larger arrows are also spaced further apart.
• No extra transparency. §9.2.6 asks for alpha 0.4 at dusk and 0.2 at night over an ENC. The catalogue's dusk and night colours already include Annex F's luminance reduction, and Rule 4 says to use the catalogue colours, so no extra alpha is applied. Applying both would make night arrows almost invisible.
• Speed 0. Band 1 is [0.00, 0.50) in select_arrow.xsl, so a node with a speed of exactly 0 is drawn with the band 1 arrow, in its encoded direction.

Validation

The bundled rule pack, EncDotNet.S100.Datasets.S111.Validation.S111SurfaceCurrentRules.Default, checks an S111Dataset against the S-111 Edition 2.0.0 checklist and returns a ValidationReport. S111DatasetProcessor.Validate() runs it for you. To run it directly:

using EncDotNet.S100.Datasets.S111.Validation;

var report = S111SurfaceCurrentRules.Default.Run(dataset);
foreach (var finding in report.Findings)
    Console.WriteLine($"{finding.RuleId} {finding.Severity}: {finding.Message}");

S111DatasetProcessor checks station series itself with the S111-STATION-* rules, because the rule pack works on gridded S111Datasets. S111-R-2.1 uses the same time-axis checks as the S-104 rule pack, so the two time-varying products are checked the same way.

For the validation API and your own rules, see Custom catalogues and validation.

See also

• Reading product data: read grids and station series for S-111 and S-104.
• Command-line rendering: render S-111 time steps with s100 render.
• S-98 interoperability: how arrows are layered with other products.