1. Australian Hydrographic Service National Report
14th South West Pacific Hydrographic Commission Conference 30 November – 02 December NOUMEA
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National Report

2. 14th South West Pacific Hydrographic Commission Conference
General
Australian Hydrographic Office (AHO) moved from Navy to the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO) on 01Jul16
Defence White Paper – Future of Hydrographic Capability will be ‘an efficient combination of military and commercial hydrographic and oceanographic surveying capabilities’
30 November – 02 December, 2016
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HydroScheme
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Charting Activities
ENC Updates remain highest priority
Recompiling Port ENCs at larger compilation scale and with higher density detail
Approx 850 ENCs and 470 Paper charts
Working with UKHO and SIMSA to assume PCA role for Solomon Islands in early 2017 – add 50 ENCs and 30 paper charts
30 November – 02 December, 2016
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Charting Systems and Services
Migrating to an integrated suite of Caris services, such as:
Hydrographic Production Database (HPD)
Paper Chart Composer (PCC) and Editor (PCE)
Bathy Database (BDB)
ENC sales are increasing while paper chart sales have dropped by 32%.
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Challenges
Mainly relate to people and resources, although recent organisational changes have improved this situation
System-based challenges are being addressed through ‘evolutionary’ sustainment
The big challenge ahead is parallel production of paper charts, S57 ENCs and S101 ENCs – yet to understand scale and scope of challenge
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Publications
Fourth edition of Seafarers Handbook published in July 2016
See report for others
MSI
Australia is MSI Coordinator for NAVAREA X
Self Assessment report provided for discussion later
30 November – 02 December, 2016
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C55 and P5
Updates provided in May 2016
Capacity Building
Tides and Water Level workshop – 2015
Capacity Building in Hydrography for Ocean and Coastal Development
Hydrographic School – Cat B Course
2015 – 11 Aust, 2 NZ and 2 Malaysian
2016 – 7 Aust, 2 NZ, 1 Fiji and 1 Malaysian
Tides Workshop – 2 SPC
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Conclusion
AHS continues to improve ENC coverage and content
AHS system improvements will reap rewards in years to come
AHS is strongly committed to capacity building in the SWPHC
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