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 th 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 ed out to ABP Humber 9 th November

HUMBER ENC VERSION 1 9 th November Ship’s course Buoyage General Hydrography No depths

HUMBER ENC VERSION 2 10 th 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 buoyage and 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 ( ) PROCESSING CYCLE - FORTNIGHT