Commercial Grade Electronic Charting and Navigation Software
for Professional Mariners

Rose Point ECS™ improves operational efficiency, situational awareness, and decision making with straightforward, uncluttered displays and controls that provide instant access to the information professional mariners and fleet operators need to navigate safely.

Rose Point ECS is the industry-leading navigation software and the number one selling navigation software for inland vessels in the United States. With Rose Point ECS you get the most comprehensive user experience and sophisticated navigation tools available all in one package.

Key Benefits

• Improved situational awareness and overall safety of vessel operation
• Reduced cost of operation from more efficient transit times
• Voyage data recording that reduces legal liabilities and enhances incident review
• Exceptional and time-tested reliability
• An uncluttered, modern and easy-to-use interface
• Advanced admin tools make setup and configuration the fastest in the industry
• Less overall required training resources that significantly reduce costs of adoption
• Expert technical support when you need it

Planning and Navigation

Rose Point ECS lets you plan an unlimited number of routes and waypoints, provides for boundary areas with speed limit alarms, and includes many other planning and drawing tools. Only Rose Point ECS lets you organize those routes and marks into voyage plan documents which are easily archived, printed, shared, and transferred between PCs.

• Unlimited routes and waypoints
• Boundary areas with optional speed limits
• ETA calculator
• Route obstacle checking
• Voyage plan printing

When underway, Rose Point ECS provides you with the information you need with a quick glance at its clear, customizable displays and logical controls.

• Fully customizable instrument panels and screen layouts
• Passing point predictors indicate where you will meet other vessels in confined waterways, even around bends in a river
• The rate of turn course predictor helps reduce over steering by indicating where the vessel will be in the future based on the current speed and rate of turn
• A boat and its tow can be shown to scale for an accurate depiction of the vessel size and shape when zoomed in on the chart
• The Voyage Recorder records all navigation data for playback at a later time
• Advanced AIS support includes closest point of approach calculations and alarms and AIS vessel track saving

Prepare for Departure

Rose Point ECS streamlines every departure by consolidating the selection of a destination and route, making adjustments to your vessel and tow configuration, looking up destination codes, and updating your AIS transponder.

+Inland Add-On

The features of +Inland are ideal for vessels operating on the inland waterways.

• Automatic "River Route" generation
• Mile markers instead of latitude/longitude
• Graphical Tow Configuration editor
• Boat and tow are shown to scale on charts
• River stage observations and forecasts
• Waterway ETA Calculator
• US Waterway Mile Markers

Automatic River Routes

Rose Point ECS can automatically calculate routes on US inland waterways and will even find all the bridges, locks, and river stage stations along the way to assist in your Subchapter M Navigation Assessments.

Chart Compatibility

Rose Point ECS can use the official NOAA ENC® and NOAA RNC® charts directly; there is no need to purchase US charts in a proprietary format. Rose Point ECS even makes it easy to download and install these free charts. Official worldwide charts are available for purchase from within Rose Point ECS.

Learn about international charts

• NOAA ENC® and NOAA RNC®
• US Army Corps of Engineers IENC (2.0 and 2.1)
• PRIMAR ENC
• Admiralty Vector Chart Service (AVCS)
• Canadian Hydrographic Service Digital Charts
• S-57 ENC (including S-63 encrypted)
• Maptech BSB (raster nautical charts)
• Maptech RML and PCX
• NV. Charts
• BSB Versions 1-5
• SoftChart and PhotoChart

Chart Overlays

It takes more than just charts to plan a safe and efficient voyage. Rose Point ECS provides tightly integrated, easy to use, and completely searchable supplementary navigation information including:

• USACE Master Docks Plus
• US Coast Pilot®
• Tide and Current Predictions
• Weather Forecasts – Text and Graphical
• River Mile Markers
• Gulf of Mexico Lease Block Boundaries
• Worldwide Gazetteer
• USACE Waterway Surveys
• USGS Satellite Photos and Topo Maps