UPPER HUMBER ENC TRIAL Nov 2012 – Oct 2013

Andy Hinton – Geographic Manager England East and South.

• Introduction and Background – why the Trial was conducted.

• Description of our new Hydrographic database system.

• Trial itself – how the product and service evolved over time

• Conclusions/ key lessons learnt

• Further work and applications

Upper Humber ENC cell presentation.

• Humber Bridge to Goole on River Ouse and Keadby on River Trent

• Goole – UK’s most inland port - 894th in world

•1600 commercial vessels - 80% ECDIS fitted

• Accommodates vessels of 5.5m draught

INTRODUCTION: AREA IN QUESTION

Dynamic hydrographic environment.

Tortuous navigation

Surveyed by ABP Humber on very frequent basis :

2 weeks

6 weeks

8 weeks

ABP HUMBER SURVEY SCHEDULE.

ABP Humber output

• Survey – 2 weeks

(Tuesday)

• New Ships course

• Autocad and pdf sheets

• Buoy moves (Friday)

• Chart - 2 months

• Paper chart 3497 – 1:50,000

• ‘Unchartable’.

• Traditional system - cannot cope with speed of change.

•Paper chart NMs - 12/15 days, New Edition - 5 to 7 weeks

• ENC updates - tied into paper chart NM timeframes.

UKHO CURRENT CHARTING.

REASONS FOR THE TRIAL.

• Introduction of the Hydrographic Database • Berth to Berth ENC service top 1000 ports.

• 80% vessels using river have ECDIS fitted.

• MAIB report – Sea Mithril 2007.

Hydrographic Database (HDB)

Incoming data

Source

Database

Paper Chart Editor

Product Editor

Paper Chart NMs NEs

AMLs

ARCS

ENC Updates NEs

HPD

CARIS HPD – Database approach.

Source database (S57) – updated real time.

Breaks link between paper charts and ENCs

Humber area rolled into HDB in 2010/ 2011.

THE TRIAL : PRODUCT CREATION. APRIL TO NOV 2012

Agreed to conduct Trial – February 2012

Two targets – Update ENC in two working days

Had to enhance navigation.

Product creation - Scale 1:25,000.

Critical features - Ship’s course, buoyage, coast, wrecks,

Topography – enhanced

Hydrography – General backdrop.

Ship’s Course/ Buoyage updated -14 days

Emailed out to ABP Humber 9th November

HUMBER ENC VERSION 1

9th November 2012.

Ship’s course

Buoyage

General Hydrography

No depths

HUMBER ENC VERSION 2

10th Jan 2013

All soundings

Unsurveyed outside

Update 2 working days.

Presentation issues

HUMBER ENC VERSION 3

February 2013

Contours only – 15

Ships course/ Buoys

Depth reassurance issue

HUMBER ENC VERSION 4 (FINAL)

April 2013

Basic depth into.

Contours

Decimetre

0.5 dry to 1m.

Ships course/ buoy

UKHO: Conclusions/ Lessons learnt .

• Production and Maintenance System.

• Automation.

• System performance.

• Port Authority/ survey contractor – technical capability.

Further work. • Non technical aspects • Commercially viable ?• Licensing/ distribution ?.

Future applications• Unchartable areas. • ENC Berthing cells.

Upper Humber ENC Cell.

Andrew Hinton.

ABP Humber Survey Team

Conduct survey

Survey processing and analysis.

Decide new buoyageand ships course

Create updated chart with new course and buoyage.

Conduct Buoy moves.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

UKHO

Alerted survey imminent from NM

Two day target Import data, create surface, auto contouring & sounding selection. Delete existing features and replace.

Verification and validation checking of cell.

ABP Pilots

Issue NM

shoals

xyz and dxf file

Issue updated chart

New edition of ENC.

New edition of ENC

(Email)

PROCESSING CYCLE - FORTNIGHT