VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 1 Ice Charting System in the Baltic- an example Robin Berglund, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland IICWG 5 th meeting, Hamburg/Rostock April 19-22, 2004

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 2 Presentation purpose and contents Purpose: to give an overview of the present status of IceMap and to present how ice information is transferred and used by one important end user group: the icebreakers. Contents: –IceMap –IBNet, IBPlott systems

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 3 VTT Information Technology A government owned research institute We help companies derive maximum benefit from the rapid progress in microelectronics, information technology and media technology. About 400 employees, annual turnover 40 M€ Remote sensing is one of the research areas IceMap is one example of a Customer specific systems development

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 4 IceMap An interactive editing tool for creating maps using satellite images as templates Based on polygon networks: attibutes can be assigned to areas defined as polygons. These attributes are related to the visual appearance (hatching), but also to properties like ice thickness etc. Output formats: Postscript, Grid (attribute values at regular sampled intervals), area sizes and types per area. Other formats can be generated from the Postscript output (PDF, raster) Possibility to read temperature measurements directly from file and plot them on the map Isotherm generation Tailored to the needs of the Ice services around the Baltic Sea. Runs on a Unix workstation (HP-Unix, Digital Unix, SUN Solaris, Linux) Implemented using C++, X-Windows, Motif

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 5 NOAA AVHRR RADARSAT SAR Receiving &processing Format change &compression ViewIce: Check &adjust Sending to ships Down- loading Geometric transformation+ area cuts+ resolution reduction+ compression Sending to icebreakers ICEMAP Automatic Classification Automatic Classification ViewIce: Check &adjust Icechart Call-fax ECMWF SST Ground truth Iceforecast HIRLAM Wave & gauge data WAM Icedrift chart Ice drift in text format Wave forecast charts Users of all kind: - -Icebreakers -Ships -Pilots -Fishermen -Coast guard -Military -Strategic transpor- tation planning -General public Wave forecasts in text FINNISH ICE SERVICE: FLOW OF DATA AND INFORMATION PRODUCTS Formats:*.pdf,*.ice,*.tiff, *.postcript,*.grid, In flow Processes Model Output productServer Manual operation Interactive operations on computer Line reduction

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 6 IceMap status today Development mainly in Linux, latest version 3.2. This version used as a tool in research projects (IRIS: Ice Ridging Information for Decision Making in Shipping Operations ) Versions in operational use : –FIMR: HP, ver –BSH: Sun Solaris 7, ver –SMHI. Digital Unix, ver Windows version prototyped

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 7 ICEMAP recent additions and future enhancement ideas Possibility to run IceMap in batch-mode. Enables automated production of charts for separate areas and in different formats (including grid- files). Used at FIMR Ice Service. Automatic coloring of charts according to ice polygon attributes using color standard guidelines. Experimental at this stage Additional attributes for the ice polygons related to ice ridging. Enables dynamic addition of new attributes. Line simplification to reduce size of output file. Useful for possible transfer of vector formats over slow links or for resolution reduction for other purposes. Windows version (requires Cygwin license) Output according to SIGRID-3 (if required, implementation not there yet)

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 8 Linux-version is prototyped in a research project (IRIS). Prototype will be made available to participants in the IRIS project (FIMR, SMHI) Licensing option including source code access may be offered to anybody interested. Enables development of enhancements and in-house support without dependency on VTT. Terms and conditions available on request. –copy of corrections/improvements also sent back to VTT –for use within own organization only IceMap on Linux - licensing options

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 9 IBNet – the End User System on the icebreakers Traffic information system for icebreakers Contract assignment by the Finnish and Swedish Maritime Authorities (jointly) Now in operational use in 2 centers + 20 nodes, about 50 client installations, 24/7 utilization in wintertime. During a season over 200 Mbytes of data is generated in one replicated database (excluding satellite image data) Utilization of satellite images essential

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 10 Interconnected Systems PortNet Intermodal Portal PilotNet IBNet VTS AIS Other systems Ship SRS Ice Service

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 11 IBNet: overall view

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 12 IBNet geographically VSAT satellite connection to the ”big” icebreakers, up to 512 kbit/s

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 13 IBNet main modules Input on one IBNet node, on an icebreaker for example, is automaticaly replicated, i.e transferred to the other IBNet nodes. Certain operations can only be input by the IBNet Operator, such as ice restrictions for ports, ship register information etc.

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VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 15 Satellite Data flow in the Baltic Sea Data ProviderServer Client Software 1.1 km pixel, visible and infrared NOAA satellites NOAA weather satellite images RADARSAT m pixel, all weather FMI = Finnish Meteorological Institute SMHI = Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute FIMR= Finnish Institute for Marine research FMA = Finnish Maritime Administration SMA= Swedish Maritime Adminstration FMA, SMA FMA, SMA Icebreakers Shipowner’s Office Shipowner’s Office IBPlott Data providerServer - Image delivery ViewIce Client software -Image preprocessing and geocoding -Compression FMI - Icemaps Merchant ships Possible link Mobile link Ice services (FIMR, SMHI) KSAT KSAT= Kongsberg Satellite Service AS

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 16 IBPlott IBBridge connection

IBPlott -Satellite images -NOAA and RADARSAT, now also ENVISAT - Traffic situation -Both icebreakers and ships - DirWays - Icechart - Weather forecast and observations

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 18 ViewIce (= IBPlott for merchant ships) Functionality as in IBPlott, but no traffic situation information –Ice charts –Satellite images –Weather prognosis –Wave forecasts

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VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 20 ViewIce 2

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 21 ViewIce3

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 22 ViewIce 4

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 23 ViewIce 4

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 24 ViewIce 5

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 25 ViewIce 6

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 26 Viewice 7

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 27 Viewice 8

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 28 General data flow from providers to ViewIce Data file Data file Data file ViewIce Data provider 1 Data provider n... Data files Pre-existing data transfer system (e.g. AMOS mail) Radarsat images NOAA images Classified images and ice charts Wave forecasts Wind, pressure forecast Wind, pressure, water level observations Text forecasts

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 29 VTT focus in the future Distribution and delivery aspects –the Facade –delivery tailored to customer capabilities and needs Architecture of distributed systems –interoperability –open systems (Archive) –internally –externally And: VTT sees no reason why IceMap could not have a central role in the Ice Services still for many years to come.

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND 30 Additional information