Mr. Denis Hains, CHS

Rear Admiral Gerd F. Glang, NOAA

June 1, 2015

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report to the

Inter-Regional Coordination Inter-Regional Coordination CommitteeCommittee

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• NOAA Certified Printers for Paper Nautical Products

‒ As of April 2015, NOAA moved to a POD model− 17 companies authorized as NOAA Certified Printers

• Communication; sharing of data and R&D results‒ Maintaining lines of communication at the operational level‒ Writing inter-agency communication into production processes

‒ 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) ‒ 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

Gerd.Glang@noaa.gov

Denis.Hains@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Thank you

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