1. France National Report MACHC17.03J

2. National Report highlights
Survey activities
MSDI developments
Coastal Hazards: HOMINIM Project
IENWG activities
Full French national report available on the IHO website (item 17-3J).

3. Survey activities

4. 2017-2020 National Survey Programme
Antilles

5. 2017-2020 National Survey Programme
French Guiana

6. SHOM’s webportal: data.shom.fr
Maritime & coastal geographic information portal, INSPIRE compliant.
 Access to around 50 different data layers organized by types:
Vertical references, tidal currents, bathymetry, charts, sedimentology, etc
 Both open data and licenced data sources visualisables
 Shom’s online boutique:

7. SHOM’s webportal: data.shom.fr
Several online services provided back to back with the portal
Dissemination of all data layers available through OpenGIS web services
Embedded collaborative services:
Infonaut: MSI report tool
Cartodyn: Basic cartographic tool - shareable with other users
Oceanographic modelling forecasts visualization (time/depth)

8. Online tide tables: maree.shom.fr

9. Online tide tables: maree.shom.fr

10. Coastal Hazards: HOMONIM Project
Initiated in 2011 in partnership between Shom and Météo-France, aims at improving France storm surge alert system (VVS)
A second phase of that project was initiated at the end of 2015, to end in 2019, focusing on overseas territories, precisely:
French Antilles,
French Guiana,
French overseas Territories of the SouthWest Indian Ocean.

11. 2017: Shom New visual identity

12. IENWG Activities Coastal Mapping Project

13. Genesis - context Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) – 23 April 2012
Framework for interaction between the EC and the IHO
Creation of the IHO-EU Network WG (June 2013)
Decided at the 5th IHO IRCC meeting
Initiated and chaired by France
Development of a Joint European Coastal Mapping Programme (JECMaP) within this WG
Concurrently, CPMR work on data knowledge for the management of coastal areas
Service contract signed 29 May 2015 (3 year duration)

14. Objectives
Assess the current availability of digital coastal maps in the EU
Disseminate this information by EMODnet
Share experience of coastal mapping in the EU
Develop standards for best practices
Propose how a future JECMaP could operate

15. Consortium Hydrographic offices :
FRANCE – BELGIUM – GERMANY – GREECE – IRELAND – ITALY – LATVIA – NORWAY – PORTUGAL – SLOVENIA – SWEDEN
Regions :
CPMR – Regione Lazio
Public Bodies :
ISPRA – RWS - GeoEcomar – DDNI
IT company :
Worldline

16. Organisation

17. STUDY OF THE GAPS TO FILL HR BATHYMETRIC DATA IN COASTAL ZONES
Representability of the partnership; all the EU maritime basins were considered, more than 50% of the maritime EU Countries
Result; more than km2 of acquisition to do, only for the panel countries
It is necessary to take into account the specificities of the maritime basins in the future acquisition strategy for coastal data (depth) and not take only one definition for coastal zone, coast line, coastal population.

18. STUDY OF THE GAPS TO FILL HR BATHYMETRIC DATA IN COASTAL ZONES
The maximum resolution useful for the evaluation of activities is 0.50m, the actual MBES can deliver 0.20m in good conditions.
Standardized and high resolution data are the conditions of re- usability of data by the national and local authorities and stakeholders for the maritime policies; precision for decisions, activities and juridical situations.
Using standard procedures would allow to give to the data a quality assurance. The IHO rules must be used, no data should be gathered without an assessment about their uncertainty.
We should climb a step with the use of these standards in EU funded projects.

19. IHO-EU Network can be associated.
It seems mandatory that experts of bathymetry be involved in the preparation of EU programmes with maritime objectives. This would facilitate the use of standards.
IHO-EU Network can be associated.

20. How to fill the gaps with a European Strategy ? Three axes proposed
AXIS 1: Set up coordinated programmes for data acquisition at maritime basin scale;
AXIS 2: Increase the opportunities for bathymetric data acquisition in the framework of the EU operational programmes and funds;
AXIS 3: Promote the production of bathymetric data from multiple sources, usable by different categories of coastal users for maritime policies.

21. AXIS 3 Community sourcing
Promoting the production of usable bathymetric data for maritime policies, coming from different sources
Organising training and dissemination of data acquisition standards, (HOs)
Organising the validation of these data by the HOs of EU Member States (link with EMODNET “ingestion and safe keeping of marine data)
Evaluation of the gaps in the EU coastal seabed mapping, in order to address them via community sourcing
Promoting the link between the EU and the IHO works