Breaking Tradition: How SSDM and ArcGIS are Modernizing Subsea Survey

Taylor Brown (GIS Analyst, AUV Group)Katherine Butcher (Survey Ops Manager, SSDM Taskforce Member)

Seabed Survey Data Model (SSDM)

Presentation Goals

• What is SSDM?

• How does it differ from historic data deliverables?

• Survey contractor benefits for SSDM & GIS implementation?

• Operator benefits from SSDM & GIS implementation?

• Room for improvement?

• Next steps?

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Note: Data examples, references, client names, and survey projects referenced in figures and on slides herein have been generated for demonstration purposes only. Background data have been sourced from the public domain.

What is SSDM?

Seabed Survey Data Model

• Subsea Survey Geophysical and Hydrographic Data Management & Deliverables Template

• 2011 Release by IOGP • Geomatics Group Geo-

Information Subcommittee

• SSDM Task Force

• IOGP & Operator “Flavors”

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SSDM Purpose & Inception• Offshore Field Development & Data Management Tool

• Seabed & Shallow Sub-Surface Features (10’s of metres, i.e. not for Exploration)

• Standardize data for a full project life cycle

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Data Model Structure

• File or Personal Geodatabase• 4 Feature Datasets

• 30 Feature Classes

• Hydrographic, Geophysical & Environmental Survey Templates

•Subsea Infrastructure Siting:• Feature Locations & Attributes

• Geohazards

• Environmental Conditions

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Data Model Structure

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Data Model Structure

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Data Model Structure

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Historic Data Deliverables

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• Paper charts & reports

• Unstructured file folders• CAD Drawings

• Rasters

• ASCII Files

• Shapefiles

Client Use

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Survey Data

Geologists

Engineers

Subsea Contractors

Modern Data Deliverable

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SSDM.mdb

SSDM: Operators | Survey Contractors

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One Data Processing Procedure

One Data Interpretation

Template

One Offshore Feature GIS

Database

SSDM.mdb

Standardization & Quality

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Quality in Partnerships

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“Delivering smarter, quality seabed survey data has been a collective effort.”

http://www.qps.nl/display/main/2015/03/09/20150309_DOF-subsea

Data Delivery Streamlining

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Survey Contractor• Conduct Survey• Process & Interpret Data• Assemble SSDM

SSDM Delivery to Operator• Transfer GDB

Enterprise System• Integration w/ existing database• Dissemination to geologists, engineers, managers

Operator Data Management

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Risk Reduction from SSDM & GIS

• Objective Analysis Tool• Pipeline Route Favorability

• Geohazard Risk Classifications

• Data Structure Standardization

• Uniform Symbology

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Technical ImprovementsData Model Expansion

• Feature Subtypes• Improve breadth of

geological features

• Complete Symbology

• Regional Applications

• Documentation

• Exposure

• More User Buy-In

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The Next Steps

Big Data

Standardization

Dissemination

Interoperability

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Acknowledgements• Katherine Butcher, DOF Subsea

• Gareth Wright, Woodside Energy

• DOF Subsea AUV Group• Sean Halpin, Global AUV Mgr.

• Background Figure Data:• NGDC

• NOAA

• BOEM

• QPS/FM

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Thank you!