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United States-Canada
Hydrographic Commission
report to the
Inter-Regional Coordination
Committee
Mr. Denis Hains, CHS
Rear Admiral Gerd F. Glang, NOAA
June 1, 2015
Meetings since IRCC6
• USCHC38 was held March 16, 2015 in National Harbour,
Maryland
• Held in conjunction with the US Hydro 2015 Conference
• 20 participants
• Member State agencies included NOAA, CHS, NGA, US Navy
• Observers were the IHB, UKHO, and MACHC
• A wide range of discussion topics of mutual interest including:
– Organizational changes
– Crowd-sourced data
– Satellite-derived bathymetry
• The Chart Advisory Committee did not meet
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Activities
• Reports and Papers
– USCHC38 Meeting Minutes
– USCHC Report to IRCC7
– Submission to IRCC7: Eliminating ENC Overlaps: USCHC Case Study (see
Doc IRCC7-9C)
– Submission to IRCC7: Proposal to add the topic of Satellite-derived
bathymetry as a standing agenda item at all future IRCC meetings (See
Doc IRCC7-11F).
– MS submitted updates to the INT Catalogue (S-11 Part B) for Region A
– Input IHO Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs) and Working-level
Performance Indicators (WPIs)
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Items of Interest
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NOAA Certified Printers for Paper Nautical Products
‒ As of April 2015, NOAA moved to a POD model
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Communication; sharing of data and R&D results
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Maintaining lines of communication at the operational level
Writing inter-agency communication into production processes
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17 companies authorized as NOAA Certified Printers
E.g. For all trans-boundary ENCs
Organizational Efficiencies
‒ OCS began restructuring chart production to reflect an “ENC-First”
alignment. Three year plan for completion (2017)
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Supports continuous ENC maintenance
ENC are the source of raster products (PODs and RNCs)
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Items of Interest (continued)
• Satellite-Derived Bathymetry
Chart 16240: what we learned
• Satellite AIS
– Vessels not following charted hydrography
• Landsat 8:
– Improved Shoreline
– Large uncharted shoals revealed
• Magenta line applied to show
historical successful transits
• Methodology relied upon open-source and no-cost data
• Note IRCC7-11 F and H
Items of Interest (continued)
• Capacity Building
• University of New Hampshire CCOM/JHC
– CAT A Training
– GEBCO Scholars
– M.S. and PhD Degrees and Certificates
• University of Southern Mississippi
– CAT A & B Training
– M.S. and PhD Degrees and Certificates
• Chart Adequacy Evaluation Workshop
– 12 countries participating July 2015 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
– MACHC in summer 2016 (tentative)
• HO to HO exchanges
– Example with Haiti in Fall 2015
Thank you
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