Ocean Observing in Newfoundland & Labrador - Some Practical Applications Maritime Collaboration Summit Nov 18, 2009 – San Diego

Government of Canada National Fisheries Aerial Surveillance Program General: –Private sector maritime surveillance program –Complete, turn-key service –Delivered by Provincial Aerospace Ltd. –24/7/365 operations –8,000 airborne maritime surveillance hours per year –Many countries use private sector companies to create or augment maritime domestic enforcement presence Major Mission Equipment: –Multimode military radar –Gyrostabilized forward looking infrared –Tactical data management system –Real time SATCOM/Swiftbroadband –Nighttime ship identification –6-pairs of mark-II human eyeballs Missions: –Fisheries, pollution, illegal migration, search & rescue, counter narcotics, sovereignty, support to military operations, etc.

Ice & Environmental Monitoring North Atlantic Oil Production and Exploration Industry Background: –Exploration and production activities conducted in ice infested waters (pack ice and icebergs) –Significant threat to safety at sea operations Provincial Aerospace Ltd. Provides: –Program comprises ice detection, mapping, reporting and management –Fixed wing ice reconnaissance services using special missions configured aircraft –Missions executed on a daily basis during the ice season (March – June) –Ice management includes tracking, drift prediction and where necessary towing/deflection –Also includes site specific weather forecasting and observations, all tracked electronically

Polar View – Satellite–based Ice Observation More than 80 partners from 16 countries Program Manager C-CORE Euro-Russian Arctic Node Manager:met.no North American Node Manager: C-CORE Baltic Node Manager: FMI Antarctic Node Manager: BAS Australia Austria Belgium Canada Denmark Estonia France Finland Germany Iceland Italy Norway Sweden Russia United Kingdom USA Funded mainly through ESA, Managed by C-CORE

Services Safety Shipping Offshore operations Hunting and fishing Water and Environment Water resources management Flood forecasting Hydropower management Pollution transport Adapting to Climate Change Shipping Offshore operations Hunting and fishing Water resources management Flood forecasting Hydropower management User Concerns Sea Ice and Icebergs High-resolution ice charts Medium-resolution ice charts Sea ice thickness charts Ice forecasts Floe edge maps Iceberg detection reports Global sea ice products River and Lake Ice Ice classification maps Ice cover change maps Annotated imagery Ice conditions history Freeze-up/melt-onset timing Glaciers and Snow Glacier facies maps Mass-balance modelling report Glacier velocity maps Snow cover maps Snow water equivalent

Applied Ocean Observation supporting ‘Better Information….Better Decisions’

The SmartBay Vision “Simple access by all stakeholders to data and information in support of effective management and sustainable development of coastal ocean areas and the safety and security of life at sea.” or simply put: Better Information….Better Decisions

Why Placentia Bay? Economic importance –Year round activity –Fishery, oil and gas, transportation, tourism, new heavy industry proposed and under development. –2 nd to Vancouver in value of goods shipped –Over 500 fishing enterprises Environmental sensitivity –Brander-Smith Report (1990), Transport Canada (2008) –30+ years without a major incident –1200 tanker movements/yr. – 320 Mbbls Rapidly becoming the Province’s industrial heartland –Location of choice for new heavy industry Photo: Newfoundland LNG Limited 90 x125 kms

Fundamentals of SmartBay Access to static and dynamic/real time data from a variety of sources Focus on applications of the technology Outputs must be readily accessible and practical – in other words useful to all potential end users Applications from research to practical Better Information….Better Decisions

Value Added Products General weather synopsis High Resolution forecasts for areas of interest –SmartBay is the first commercial application of the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) hi-res. forecast model in Canada Prediction of wind, waves, air, sea temperature, precipitation, icing potential To come Current circulation model Spill trajectory modeling

Catalyst for Ocean Innovation Test-bed and demo. site for new technologies – buoys can accommodate additional instrumentation Data source for other commercial and R&D initiatives An operational ‘laboratory’ supporting innovation and training through applied R&D with industry, government and academia