MACHC ECC Working Group 1 Report
Katie Ries, NOAA
MACHC-Electronic Chart CommitteeGoal: Demonstrate and facilitate the use of official electronic chart data for safe, efficient, and environmentally-sensitive maritime navigation.
Objectives:
Facilitate the production and use of ENCs and RNCs
Improve hydrographic capacity of coastal statesIdentify sources for acquiring equipment,
software, and trainingSpeed up ENC production for key ports & major
shipping routesIncrease awareness of benefits of using EC data
MACHC-Electronic Chart CommitteeChair: Katie Ries, USA (NOAA)
Technical Coordinator: Rafael Ponce
Two Working Groups:
MesoAmerican Capacity Building Pilot Project
Improve capacity building of coastal state hydrographic offices in a defined area
Initial focus: The IADB-administered, GEF-funded Gulf of Honduras Project
ENC Production and Distribution
Improve ENC coverage of the entire region in the short to medium term, production of ENC data by national hydrographic offices
Electronic Chart CommitteeWorking Group 1 – MesoAmerican Capacity
Building Pilot Project
Working GroupMembers:
GuatemalaHondurasBelizeMexicoUKUSA
Project Objective:
To reverse the degradation of the coastal and marine ecosystems within the Gulf of Honduras by enhancing the prevention and control from maritime transport-related pollution in the major ports and navigation lanes, improving navigational safety to avoid groundings and spills, and reducing land-based sources of pollution draining into the Gulf.
Environmental Protection and Maritime Transport Pollution Control
Gulf of Honduras Project
Component 1: Building regional capacity for maritime and land-based pollution control.
Component 2: Building the information base for the Strategic Action Plan.
Component 3: Enhancing navigational safety in shipping lanes.
Component 4: Improving environmental management and hazard reduction in network of five ports within the Gulf of Honduras
Environmental Protection and Maritime Transport Pollution Control
Gulf of Honduras Project
Component 3: Enhancing navigational safety in shipping lanes
Focuses on improving the hydrographic and oceanographic cooperation in the region to both prevent and prepare for groundings and spills in the Gulf related to marine transportation operations
(references active collaboration with MACHC)
Environmental Protection and Maritime Transport Pollution Control
Gulf of Honduras Project
Gulf of Honduras Project and MACHC Involvement
Making the case for Hydrography
Regional hydrographic capacity analysis
Active involvement in the Puerto Barrio, Belize City, and Tegucigalpa project preparation meetings
Input in the project’s final design
Commitment to develop and help execute the hydrographic implementation plan
Components of Hydrographic Activity Implementation Plan
1. Executive Summary
2. Action Plan
3. Budget
Gulf of Honduras / MACHC 2009 ActivitiesEquipment delivered to countries
December 2008 –January 2009
NOAA Hydrographic Training conducted with representatives of 3 GoH countries (Norfolk, VA)February 2009
In-country hydrographic training for 3 GoH countriesFebruary-March 2009
Progress ReportGulf of Honduras 2009 Training
LCDR Chris van Westendorp, NOAAElliott Arroyo, NAVOCEANO
Belize Lessons Learned (Phase 1 Training)
Logistics planningVehicle availabilityBNCG detainment
duties
Equipment Deployment / Control
Troubleshooting methodology
Belize (continued)(Phase 1 Training)
In-survey plan modification
Emergency / safety planningCoxswain and Hydrographer duties / communication
Honduras:Basic needs for successful program
Vessel dedicated for hydrographic surveyAssigned survey personnel (i.e. electronics
technician)Permanently installed vessel hydrographic
equipmentIncreased IT proficiency (i.e. basic Microsoft
operations)Coxswain proficiency for driving survey linesCulture: Basic survey needs and logistics (i.e.
not typical office hours)
X
X
(Trainer assessment from Phase 1 Training)
Guatemala:Basic needs for successful program
X
XX
Vessel dedicated for hydrographic surveyAssigned survey personnel (i.e. electronics
technician)Permanently installed vessel hydrographic
equipmentIncreased IT proficiency (i.e. basic Microsoft
operations)Coxswain proficiency for driving survey linesCulture: Basic survey needs and logistics (i.e.
not typical office hours)
(Trainer assessment from Phase 1 Training)
Plans for Phase 2 Training(All Countries)Conduct Quality Assurance Checks
Reference from 2009 trainingConduct a Field Hydrographic Survey to IHO
StandardsCollect dataProcess dataConduct quality assurance
Be ready/able to transmit survey deliverables to UKHO for chart updates
Customized Phase 2 Training(Belize)Practice basic surveying principles
Side scan / single beam echosounder acquisition / analysis
Data post-processingTides
Calculate tidal datums from time series data & compare with existing vertical control network information
Practice benchmark network establishment / leveling
Customized Phase 2 Training(Honduras)Practice & Theory: Sidescan Sonar
Operation / data collection / analysisTarget detection & interpretation
TidesBottom to top review
GeodesyUsing dual-frequency receiverEstablishing geodetic control pointLinking horizontal / vertical control networks
Customized Phase 2 Training:(Guatemala)Survey Planning
100% versus 200% coverageHarbor versus Approaches
Boat operations & safetySteering survey lines (coxswain training)Single beam / side scan sonar acquisition and
processing operations Hypack / ImagenexBathymetry & Target analysis / investigation
Action Items…Travel arrangements communicated to IHO
Bureau for Phase 2 training: 30 November 2009GoH country representatives participating in
NOAA February 2010 Hydrotraining (Belize / Guatemala / Honduras)
2010 In-country trainers (NOAA/Navy hydrographers) Honduras: 11-25 April 2010 Guatemala: 25 April – 9 May 2010 Belize: 28 February – 14 March 2010
Action items (cont)…GoH countries identify one (1) English-
speaking participant for NOAA February 2010 Hydrotraining: 23 November 2009Introductory hydrography course (not for
experienced or prior-trained personnel)
NOAA / GoH Project send letter to GoH countries: 11 November 2009Invitation to NOAA February 2010
HydrotrainingAnnouncement of intent for in-country Phase 2
training
Action items (cont)…NOAA / Navy explore possibility of focused
tide station installation and water level analysis training and/or support: 31 January 2010
GoH countries ensure preparations made for in-country training: Prior to NOAA/Navy trainer arrivalVessel & personnelEquipment installation
Action items (cont)…GoH countries to document hydrographic
activity in-kind contributions using format provided by GoH Project Director: 31 December 2009
GoH countries produce progress report and results of Phase 1 Training for MACHC Chair to submit to IHO CBC: 31 January 2010
Action items (cont)…GoH countries and ECC WG1 Chair generate
& submit request throuch MACHC Chair for 2011 hydrographic training & support from IHO CBC: 15 March 2010
Questions…
Electronic Chart Committee
Report on ECC Working Group 2: ENC Production
Drivers to Regional ENC Coverage 30 % of world’s oil cargo transits the region.
Substantial proportion (0ver 50%) of the world’s cruise ships operate within the region.
Panama Canal expansion in 2014 expected to substantially increase its capacity from 6.6 million in 2010 to 8.4 million TEUs in 2015.
…IMO has passed mandatory carriage requirements for ECDIS for new tankers and cruise ships, …by 2012.
…IHO Member States should provide adequate coverage, availability, consistency and quality of ENCs by 2010.
RecommendationsAchieve adequate regional ENC coverage
by Dec-2010Utilize the medium scale INT Scheme as
baseline for adequate medium scale ENC coverage (usage bands 2/3).
Identify production status/gapsConsider producing medium scale ENCs
before medium scale INT charts.
Recommendations (cont)
Establish a plan with POCs for completing coverage and developing a regional ENC scheme including formalized progress updates.
Coordinate closely with the ICC to harmonize efforts
Encourage neighboring MS establish bilateral agreement on production responsibilities
Synchronize reporting with MACHC Chair, IHB and MACHC INT CC
MACHC ENC Data POCs• Brazil (Wesley
Cavaleiro)• Colombia
(Dagoberto David)• France (Yves
Guillam)• Netherlands
(Erwin Woomgoor)• UK (Phil Parker)• USA (Craig Winn)
• Cuba (TBD)• Mexico (Hugo
Cardenas)• Venezuela (Cap.
de Corb. Degoveia)
• Add RENC Representatives to this group—IC/ENC