Collection: Maritime Safety Information and Nautical Charting

A collection of articles about coastal mapping.

Maritime Safety Information and Nautical Charting

The value of a nautical chart

By L. Oudet

Preamble This manuscript is a reprint of the original paper previously published in 1973 in The International Hydrographic…

Maritime Safety Information and Nautical Charting

The electronic chart – Present status and future problems

By Adam J. Kerr, R. M. Eaton, N. M. Anderson

Preamble This manuscript is a reprint of the original paper previously published in 1986 in The International Hydrographic…

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Development of IHO S-100 – The new IHO geospatial standard for hydrographic data

By Lee Alexander, Michael Brown, Barrie Greenslade, Anthony Pharaoh

Preamble This manuscript is a reprint of the original paper previously published in 2007 in The International Hydrographic…

Bathymetry and Positioning Maritime Safety Information and Nautical Charting Research and Technology

SATELLITE-DERIVED BATHYMETRY ONLINE

By Knut Hartmann, Mona Reithmeier, Kim Knauer, Julian Wenzel, Christoph Kleih, Thomas Heege

Validation study, Upscaling SDB, SDB potential 1. INTRODUCTION A high-resolution bathymetric survey is a critical prerequisite to modern…

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DEVELOPMENT OF S-121 FOR MARITIME LIMITS AND BOUNDARIES

By Jean-François Beaupré, Serge Lévesque, Ryan Ahola, Sébastien Durand, C. Douglas O’Brien, Jonathan Pritchard, Mark Alcock

1. INTRODUCTION The transformation of our societies into digital economies requires that human knowledge and practices be translated…

Bathymetry and Positioning Maritime Safety Information and Nautical Charting Research and Technology

EVALUATION OF A CROWD SOURCED BATHYMETRIC APPROACH

By Barry Grinker, Shaul Solomon, Assif Hassin

1. BACKGROUND Harbors are relatively shallow confined areas where maneuvering is limited and therefore monitoring their depths is…

Bathymetry and Positioning Maritime Safety Information and Nautical Charting Research and Technology

AUGMENTED REALITY FOR CREWED HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS

By Julia Bräker, Julia Hertel, Marc Briede, Thomas Thies, Martin Semmann

How Augmented Reality Can Leverage Water Depth Management in the Port of Hamburg Abstract For the process of…

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US OBJECTIVES WITH NOMEC: ENABLING CONTRIBUTIONS TO SEABED 2030

By Benjamin K. Evans, Jeremy Weirich

Abstract Building on Seabed 2030 momentum, in 2020, the United States (US) debuted the National Strategy for Mapping,…

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CHS PRIORITY PLANNING TOOL

By René Chénier, Loretta Abado, Adam Jirovec

A GIS to Prioritize Data Gaps Abstract Spanning close to 250,000 km in length, the Canadian coastline is…

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THE END OF TRADITIONAL PAPER CHARTS: THE FINAL TRANSITION TO ELECTRONIC NAVIGATIONAL CHARTS

By Colby Harmon, CAPT E.J. Van Den Ameele

1. Abstract In late 2019, the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) started a five-year program…

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DYNAMIC DRAFT AND UNDER KEEL CLEARANCE: A HYDROGRAPHIC VIEW

By Gustavo R. Catarino

1. INTRODUCTION The prosperity of civilizations that pioneered economic activity through trading between settlements on the Mediterranean Sea…

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CONVERSION OF ELECTRONIC NAVIGATIONAL CHARTS FROM S-57 TO S-101 STANDARD FORMAT

By Guilherme N. Vieira, Flavia Mandarino

1. INTRODUCTION Electronic navigation consists of defining the position and controlling the ship by any kind of electronic…