CL 48/2016

IHB File N° S1/1001/WP CIRCULAR LETTER 48/2016 22 September 2016 REPORT ON THE OVERALL STATUS OF THE IHO WORK PROGRAMME MID-YEAR 2016 References: A. EIHC-5 - Decision No. 3 (PRO. 5 - Improving the total cost estimate of the IHO tasks for the definition of a prioritized Work Programme); B. IHO Circular Letter 17/2015 dated 24 February - Report on the overall status of the IHO Work Programme - end of 2014; C. IHO Circular Letter 66/2015 dated 2 September 2015 - Report on the overall Status of the IHO Work Programme - mid-year 2015. D. IHO Circular Letter 14/2016 dated 15 March 2016 - Report on the overall status of the IHO Work Programme - end of 2015. Dear Hydrographer, Background 1. Decision No. 3 of the 5th Extraordinary International Hydrographic Conference (EIHC-5) introduced a six-monthly reporting regime to help assess the progress of the IHO Work Programme (see Reference A). The status reports for 2014 and 2015 were provided to Member States at References B, C and D. This Circular Letter provides a report for the next reporting period - first semester of 2016. 2. On 11 July 2016, the Directing Committee invited the Chairs of Regional Hydrographic Commissions, Committees, Sub-Committees and Working Groups and the Director of the IHO Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry (DCDB) to report by 19 August 2016 on the overall status of their respective work programme. A reporting template was provided to achieve this. Outcome at mid-year 2016 3. 19 of 41 Chairs provided a report for the period January to June 2016. This represents a response rate of about 46%, slightly lower than the response rate for the previous reporting period (49%). The inventory of the responses over the last two years is provided at Annex A. 4. As directed by EIHC-5, the Directing Committee is providing at Annex B a brief summary of the reports received. The reports themselves are reproduced at Annex C (in English only). Main concerns reported 5. The main concerns expressed in the reports relate to insufficient expertise or a lack of human resources that impact directly on the likely ability to progress of a number of work items. Improving the situation calls for increased participation and longer term commitment of the Member States in the relevant IHO organs. Feedback 6. Five Member States provided comments in response to Reference D: Chile, Colombia France, Mauritius and Singapore. Their responses are provided at Annex D. 7. Two Member States are in favour of reverting to annual reporting. Three Member States supports the continuation of six-monthly reports for HSSC, IRCC and their subordinate bodies at least. 8. In order to further inform its assessment of the reporting process that the Secretary-General will include in its report on Programme 1 to the IHO Assembly in 2017 (as per Conference Decision at Reference A), Member States are invited to provide any additional comments that they may have to the IHO Secretariat ([email protected]) by 1 December 2016. Next Reporting Period 9. Noting that the Chairs of the Committees and Regional Hydrographic Commissions have been invited to prepare their reports on the activities covering the period between the XVIIIth International Hydrographic Conference and the 1st Session of the IHO Assembly by 1st December 2016, the Directing Committee will not request separate six-monthly reports for the second semester of 2016. On behalf of the Directing Committee Yours sincerely, Robert WARD President Annexes: A. Inventory of the responses to the three bi-annual surveys B. Compilation of the Status Reports from IHO bodies and inter-organizational bodies involving the IHO - Mid-Year 2016 C. Status Reports received - Mid-Year 2016 (in English only) D. Responses from Member States to IHO CL 14/2016 Copy (by e-mail): - Chairs and Vice-Chairs of IHO bodies - Chairs and Vice-Chairs of inter-organizational bodies involving the IHO 2  Annex A to IHO CL 48/2016 INVENTORY OF THE RESPONSES TO THE THREE BI-ANNUAL SURVEYS IHO bodies and Reports at end Reports at Reports at end Reports at Comments inter-organizational of 2014 mid-2015 of 2015 mid-2016 bodies HSSC Yes Yes Yes Yes S-100WG Yes Yes Yes Yes ENCWG Yes (DIPWG) Yes Yes Yes DPSWG Yes Yes Yes Yes NIPWG No report Yes Yes Yes NCWG Yes Yes Yes Yes DQWG Yes Yes No report No report TWCWG Yes (SCWG) Yes No report Yes HDWG No report Yes Yes Yes ABLOS No report (late No report Yes submission) IRCC Yes Yes No report Yes HCA Yes Yes No report Yes WWNWS-SC Yes Yes Yes No report CBSC Yes No report No report Yes WEND-WG Yes Yes Yes No report IENWG Yes Yes Yes Yes MSDIWG Yes No report No report No report CSBWG Not Applicable Not Applicable No report Yes CSBWG established by IRCC7 (June 2015) IBSC No report No report No report No report GEBCO-GC Yes Yes No report No report TSCOM Yes Yes Yes No report Joint reports SCRUM SCUFN Yes Yes Yes No report DCDB No report No report No report No report NHC No report Yes* Yes* No report See note* NSHC Yes Yes Yes Yes MBSHC No report No report No report Yes BSHC No report No report No report No report USCHC No report No report No report No report EAHC No report No report No report No report EAtHC Yes Yes Yes No report SEPRHC No report No report No report No report SWPHC No report No report No report No report MACHC Yes Yes Yes Yes SAIHC Yes Yes Yes Yes NIOHC Yes No report Yes No report RSAHC No report No report No report No report SWAtHC No report No report No report No report ARHC No report No report No report No report FC Yes Yes No report No report SRWG Yes Yes Yes Yes Response rate (%) 62.5 65 49 46 *Note: the Directing Committee acknowledges that the NHC reports at mid-2015 and end of 2015 were provided in due time and regrets that there were not listed accordingly in the relevant inventories. A-1  Annex B to IHO CL 48/2016 COMPILATION OF THE STATUS REPORTS FROM IHO BODIES AND INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL BODIES INVOLVING THE IHO – MID - YEAR 2016 Number of responses 1. By 15 September 2016 the Chairs of 19 bodies had responded to the IHB request. The following 22 bodies had not provided any report: - subsidiary bodies: FC; - subordinate organs of HSSC: DQWG; - subordinate organ of IRCC: WWNWS-SC, MSDIWG, WEND-WG, DCDB; - Regional Hydrographic Commissions: ARHC, BSHC, EAHC, EAtHC, NHC, NIOHC, RSAHC, SEPRHC, SWAtHC, SWPHC, USCHC; - inter-organizational bodies: IBSC, GEBCO GC, TSCOM, SCUFN, SCRUM. Status of the work programme of the HSSC 2. A number of tasks and activities related to the development of the S-100 framework are progressing slower than expected. Delays affect in particular the upgrade of the S-100 Registry and the development of the portrayal component. This in turn impacts the work on the development of product specifications. 3. The drafting of the new editions of S-58 - ENC Validation Checks and S-66 - Facts about Electronic Charts and Carriage Requirements has been further delayed due to the lack of human resources. The implementation of the new set of IHO normative references for ECDIS has revealed additional imperfections that are being addressed through the preparation of clarifications in accordance with the procedures outlined in IHO CL 65/2015. 4. Lack of expertise is hampering the progress of work items of the Nautical Cartography WG, the Tides, Water Levels and Currents WG and the Hydrographic Dictionary WG. Status of the work programmes of the Regional Hydrographic Commissions 5. Only four out of 15 RHCs provided a report. 6. Two commissions note the absence of basin-wide risk assessment and the lack of survey capacity. Another commission reports the lack of government awareness and support as the cause for the under- development of hydrographic services. Status of the work programme of the IRCC 7. The IHO Hydrographic Commission on Antarctica (HCA) reports on actions taken to address the insufficient exchange of information with other organizations concerned with Antarctica. 8. The Capacity Building (CB) Sub-Committee reports a lack of funds to support the CB Work Programme. The allocation of the 2014 budget implementation surplus to the CB Fund should alleviate the situation. The need to strengthen the expertise of the regional CB Coordinators and increase their availability is highlighted. 9. The Crowd-Sourced Bathymetry WG regrets the lack of feedback from the IRCC on its draft guidance document and expresses the need of an IHO-approved online file sharing and virtual meeting facility. This requirement will be further considered at the next meeting of the WG, noting the need to accommodate all members of the WG, some of whom may have no or limited access to on-the-shelf applications. B-1  Annex C to IHO CL 48/2016 STATUS REPORTS RECEIVED – MID-YEAR 2016 Contents: - HSSC - S-100WG - ENCWG - DPSWG - NIPWG - NCWG - TWCWG - HDWG - ABLOS - IRCC - NSHC - MBSHC - MACHC - SAIHC - HCA - CBSC - IENWG - CSBWG - SRWG C-1 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 HSSC REPORT Overall status of the work programme of Hydrographic Standards and Services Committee (HSSC) Compiled by Dr Mathias Jonas - e-mail address: [email protected] Current goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments Maintenance of current ECDIS Creation of edition 2.0 of S-63 for S-10x data Although progress on the revised standard has standards: implementation of the new Products behind schedule been made, both review and finalizing has not editions of S-52, S-52 Presentation been completed yet. It is proposed to combine S- Library, S-58, S-63 and S-64 63 as a new part of S-100. Development of S-100 and S-100 Due to IT reasons reengineering of the registry The redesign ended up being more complex than based product specifications structure and the register interface required originally intended. It is expected to be released by the end of August. The registry applied current S-99 have not yet operated practically and developed for all registers. Updates to it will be put on hold until user feedback is collected. Delayed completion of the portrayal catalogue The PCB has not been used to develop S-100 builder based portrayal catalogues as the focus has been on updating the other pieces of S-100 infrastructure. Because of the lack of extensive testing and some changes to the S-100 Register infrastructure the PCB may need to have some additional upgrades and functionality added. S-101, S-102, S-104, S-111, S-112, S-122 and S- Pending completion of the reengineering of the 100 based product specifications belonging to registry structure and interface (see above). This other domains still need to establish portrayal has been delayed another year due to lack of catalogue builder for the creation of machine resource availability. C-2 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 Current goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments readable portrayal catalogues. Future of paper charts Retirement of NCWG Chair. Commitment of Assigned as top priority work item to NCWG. recently appointed Vice-Chair to perform the Correspondence Group identified but little duties of Chair of the WG from September 2016 correspondence to date due to conflicting until NCWG3 (May 2017) only. priorities of WG Chair. Improvement of the content of the Technical hurdles (too complicate for the Short time frame (Demonstrator to be completed IHO online Hydrographic Dictionary allocated budget, which is in the process of being for the first week of November 2016, in time for and Support of HDWG activities negotiated) HSSC8) managed by the IHB: Production of a simple Hydrographic Dictionary multilingual demonstrator Develop high level specifications for a MSP specification not completed yet MSPs in their current status of development have combined Marine Service Portfolio not been accepted by the IMO. MSC put an action (MSP) covering the provision of in their post-biennial agenda (2018-2019) to hydrographic services to mariners in “Develop guidance on definition and accordance with the IMO e-navigation harmonization of the format and structure of strategy implementation plan Maritime Service Portfolios (MSPs)” for which the NCSR will be the coordinating body. C-3 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 S-100WG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of the S-100 Working Group Compiled by Julia Powell - e-mail address: [email protected] Current goals and Current or expected gaps and needs Comments priorities Develop an S-100 Currently this project is on track. Initial draft specification has been delivered Interoperability Guidebook and will undergo review at the S-100 Focus Group meeting in Sept. 2016 Publish edition 3.0.0 of S- Currently this is on track. Awaiting comment on redline and Edition 3.0.0 will include a new encoding 100 will be submitted to HSSC8 format, HDF5 for gridded data, as well as proposed corrections and clarifications found as a result of the S-100 test bed activities. Prepare a New Edition of S- S-102 still needs to establish both a feature and portrayal This has been delayed another year due to lack 102 catalogue for machine readability. of resource availability. Update S-99 and release of The redesign ended up being more complex than originally Please note that the rest of the S-100 the S-100 Registry Interface intended. It is expected to be released by the end of August. infrastructure relies on a functioning registry. The registry applied current S-99 have not yet operated The initial registry did not function correctly practically and developed for all registers. Updates to it will be and the Republic of Korea (KHOA) stepped in put on hold until user feedback is collected. to redesign the interfaces. Because of the interdependencies that the registry has to the Feature Catalogue Builder and then to the Portrayal Catalogue Builder, product specification developers have had to wait – so this will cause a delay to other work. Potential updates the S-100 The PCB has not been used to develop S-100 based portrayal Note – this is still an issue – but due to the S- Portrayal Catalogue Builder catalogues as the focus has been on updating the other pieces of 100 registry being delayed, we have not been C-4 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 (PCB) S-100 infrastructure. Because of the lack of extensive testing able to assess the scope of work needed. This and some changes to the S-100 Register infrastructure the PCB will move into 2017 planning. may need to have some additional upgrades and functionality added. C-5 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 ENCWG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of ENCWG Compiled by: Tom Mellor, Chairman - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time S-66 edition 2 Review conducted by ENCWG 30th June. Comments to be consolidated and new edition created for submission to HSSC. S-65 edition 1.3 Comments to be collated 28th of July. Comments to be consolidated and new edition created for submission to HSSC S-52 edition 4.0.2 ECDIS Chart 1 and UML diagrams to be corrected (CMAP) S-64 edition 3.0.2 New screen shots (Furuno), Chair DPSWG updating encrypted exchange sets S-58 edition 6.0 Reword tests for new operators (IC-ENC) C-6 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 DPSWG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of ………DPSWG Compiled by: Jonathan Pritchard - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time Creation of edition 2.0 of S-63 for S-10x data Input to document creation has been difficult DPSWG meeting has now taken place. products to obtain due to resource constraints. Re- Although progress on the revised standard has organisation of standard to integrate with S- been made, both review and finalizing has not 100 has been proposed. been completed. It was proposed to combine S-63 as a new part of S-100 and this will be progressed over the coming months into an HSSC proposal. The exact form of the DPSWG will need to be considered as well. Revised plan is to submit a working draft of a new part for S-100 by the next S-100 WG meeting in 2017 for inclusion in an appropriate future release of S-100. Support to data protection scheme On track administrators and end users (including ECDIS OEMs) Input into other IHO work groups on S-63 2.0 On track See notes above. Successful liaison meeting structure. with S-100 WG has taken place in 2016. C-7 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 NIPWG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of the NIPWG Compiled by Jens Schröder-Fürstenberg - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time Populate the NPUBS domain of the FCD [NEED] improvement of the registry handling The registry is under construction and Register (work item F.7) improvement comments based on the testing phase experience have been provided Develop S-122 – Marine Protected Area [GAP] portrayal and data quality parts missing Portrayal part is under consideration by the Product Specification (work item F 8.1) [NEED] harmonization with S-101 data involved WGs, quality model was forwarded model, feature catalogue builder to the DQWG for further consideration. The harmonization discussion between the S- 100WG/S-101 Project Team and NIPWG is ongoing, the feature catalogue builder is not available Draft Data Capture and Encoding Guides for [NEED] harmonization with S-101 data model Both the S-101 and the S-122 data models Marine Protected Area Product Specification should be harmonized to the widest possible (work item J.2.1.1) extent. The next phase is to await the next S- 100WG meeting where the DCEG improvements will be discussed Develop high level specifications for a [GAP] MSP specification MSPs in their current status of development combined Marine Service Portfolio (MSP) have not been accepted by the IMO. MSC put covering the provision of hydrographic an action in their post-biennial agenda (2018- services to mariners in accordance with the 2019) to “Develop guidance on definition and IMO e-navigation strategy implementation harmonization of the format and structure of plan Maritime Service Portfolios (MSPs)” for which the NCSR will be the coordinating body. Develop a test and implementation plan for [GAP] MSP specification MSPs in their current status of development the development of the MSP “hydrographic have not been accepted by the IMO. services” (Work item H) At the time when this report was made, a C-8 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 description of the MSP “hydrographic services” doesn’t exist. NIPWG did the first steps to develop such MSP. Further iterations and group discussion are needed. C-9 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 NCWG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of the Nautical Cartography Working Group (NCWG) Compiled by Jeff Wootton - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your Current or expected gaps and needs that may Any amplifying comments group prevent completion of tasks on time (A) Consideration of the future of the Retirement of the WG Chair may stall discussions. Top priority work item assigned at HSSC7. paper chart (NCWG Work Item A.16) Correspondence Group identified but little correspondence to date due to conflicting priorities of WG Chair. Discussion paper presented at NCWG2. It is hoped that the succeeding Chair* of the WG will be able to continue to progress this item. (B) Development of new (and revised) Actions HSSC7/18 and HSSC7/20 relate to Significant discussion at NCWG2, and related actions symbology (IHO Task 2.3.2). ECDIS portrayal. The NCWG is in the early taken by only a small team of WG members (including stages of transitioning from a focus almost Chair who will be retiring in September), including the exclusively on symbology for paper charts to formation of a “Portrayal Sub-WG”. Liaison with other providing subject matter expertise related to HSSC Working Groups such is the S-100WG, ENCWG presentation and portrayal for all nautical charting and NIPWG; and consultation with expert contributors products. This expertise in regard to ECDIS may such as OEMs, is considered essential. take some time to build, and accessibility to S-100 test beds and test data will be required. (C) Retirement of NCWG Chair Commitment of recently appointed Vice-Chair to Mikko Hovi (FI) appointed Vice-Chair in July 2016, perform the duties of Chair of the WG from and will take up the duties of Chair from 08 September. September 2016 until NCWG3 (May 2017) only. FI has agreed to commit Mikko as Chair only until NCWG3. At NCWG3 the WG will need to find a new Chair and/or Vice Chair. There is also a possibility of the Secretary of the WG retiring in the next 2 years. C-10 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 TWCWG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of TWCWG (Tidal Water level and Current Working Group) Compiled by Gwenaële Jan, Louis Maltais and David Wyatt e-mail address: [email protected] (WG Chair), [email protected] (WG Vice-Chair), David Wyatt [email protected] (WG Secretary) Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that may Any amplifying prevent completion of tasks on time comments Maintain and extend the relevant IHO standards, Deadline: May 2016. specifications and publications (3/1919): Provide the latest Action done on time: amended by the TWCWG version amended by HSSC and answer to the comment raised by and confirm during the annual meeting (2016- BHI. 03). Submit for final approval. Provide S-104, S-111 and S-112 test datasets to IHB for Deadline: May 2016 uploading to the website (a S-100 based Product Specification) Complete. S-111: Provide WG members with a tool to convert the revised No gap is expected. Deadline: Dec. 2016 v1.9 metadata file from ASCII/Excel to XML, and provide a (1) Tasks and tasks’ leaders have been sample XML file. identified. CAN and SPAWAR (industry) Leader of the action. (2) Upload presentations of the encoding tool for S-111 and describe how they work. (3) Discuss with chair S-100WG the creation of Basecamp access for S104, S111 and S112. S-111: Finalise the dynamics information to include in the No gap is expected. Up to three, 9-step current future e-navigation products: Dead line: End of 2016. vector colour (a S-100 based Product Specification) Tasks and tasks’ leaders have been identified. specifications, one each for daylight, dusk, and night time viewing conditions. S-111: Specify the appropriate format for the scalable vector Deadline: End of 2016. (1)Tasks and tasks’ leaders graphics for the portrayal of the surface current vector (a S-100 Possible gap of 3 months delay. have been identified. based Product Specification) Possible reason: time to get feedback from all (2)Send the S-111 v 1.9 C-11 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that may Any amplifying prevent completion of tasks on time comments members of the group. Product Spec out for Actions to mitigate the risk are listed beside. review and comments by the WG (3)Send S-111 v1.9 Product Spec to NOAA S-111 dataset for test (a S-100 based Product Specification) Deadline: First term of 2017. (1) Tasks and tasks’ Possible gap: 3 months delay. Related to the leaders have been above task. Possible delay in order to get identified. feedback from all members. (2) Test S-111 v1.9 HDF5 Actions to mitigate the risk are listed beside. datasets to SPAWAR and KHOA for testing. (3) Test the effect of various zip compression methods, the effect of precision (e.g. 16-, 32-, or 64-bit) for real variables, and encryption on uncompressed HDF5 file size. S-111: Portrayal setup (a S-100 based Product Specification) First term of 2017 Test of the suitability of Tasks and tasks’ leaders have been identified. portraying a zero current speed by a non-zero finite length (e.g., 0.1 mm) and report. Provide feedback on draft S-104 Product Specification Deadline: Dec. 2016. document (a S-100 based Product Specification) Possible delay of 3 months. Risk mitigation: Take advantage of the scheduled point between the group members next September to progress C-12 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that may Any amplifying prevent completion of tasks on time comments on the draft document. S-104 and S-112: Learn from the S-111 and adapt and apply rules Deadline: End of 2017. S-104 – Water Level and specifications to S-104 and S-112 (a S-100 based Product Actions studied to reach the objective: Information for Surface Specification) Use S-111 knowledge as a template that will be Navigation provided for the end of 2016. S-111 – Surface Currents S-112 – Dynamic Water Level Data Transfer Vertical Reference Frame: increase information on IHB Deadline: 2nd term of 2017. Provide details of VRF TWCWG web page. No delay is expected. GNSS datums to IHB for uploading to the website Capacity building: Deadline: Sept 2016. (1)Provide comments, (a) Review contents of Tides, Water Level and Currents Possible delay: (~6 months). Possible reasons: amendments and feedback (b) Liaise with SAN to commence translation of Workshop (a) Time to get feedback from groups’ members on the existing documents material into Spanish (by USA) (b) Necessary time to do the translation and available on IHB web site submit it to the review committee TWCG and (TWCWG). Send it to the IHB. leader of this task (SAN) Actions studied to mitigate the risk are listed and to all beside. (2)Propose support from group members for the review (ex: 13 Hispanic Members States). Study of long term data sets No delay is expected: Expected deadline: the Provide a document on the next TWCWG workshop. results obtained to date for Actions for all members but driven by USA and publication on the IHO NOR (identified task leaders) website Standard for Digital Tide Tables: Provide feedback on the Expected deadline: the next TWCWG workshop Actions for all members existing harmonic constituents list that has been selected by the (with no expected delay). tidal working group. Allow revised list to be created on the fundamental attributes C-13 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that may Any amplifying prevent completion of tasks on time comments Actual tides online links : Check and provide up-dates and Continuous action amendments to the information provided to ensure content is current and all links work Inventory of tide gauges: Regularly check entries and provide Continuous actions Contact national up-dates and amendments to IHB as necessary. representative attending RHCs to raise awareness of inventory and encourage input and updating of information Study of long term data sets Continuous action. All to take long term records to conduct analysis of constituents and to exchange the results. Increase discussion or results on the standard constituent list Continuous action. New: Add data and upload to website for further comment. Compare tidal predictions: Additional suitable data sets for Continuous action: To be provided by general analysis to improve robustness of the analysis. Report progress on results and analysis are members to IHB expected. C-14 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 HDWG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of ……HDWG Compiled by …Jean Laporte - e-mail addresses: [email protected] - [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time Improvement of the content of the IHO online Ongoing contract between the IHB and Mr Production of a simple Hydrographic Hydrographic Dictionary and Support of Markus Bärlocher of the Wikimedia Dictionary multilingual demonstrator HDWG activities managed by the IHB Foundation. Risks: Technical hurdles (too complicate for the allocated budget, which is in the process of being negotiated) Short time frame (Demonstrator to be completed for the first week of November 2016, in time for HSSC8) C-15 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 ABLOS REPORT Overall status of the work programme of ………ABLOS Compiled by ……John Brown - e-mail address: ……[email protected]………………. Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time BM24 and Seminar to be held in October None Theme is “Roles of Law of the Sea and 2016 Hydrography in the Asian Region”. Currently waiting draft programme from Korea ABLOS conference to be held in October None Theme “Pushing the Limits of UNCLOS” 2017 C-16 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 IRCC REPORT Overall status of the work programme of IRCC Compiled by Parry OEI, the IRCC Chair - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time Conduct annual meeting of IRCC None IRCC8 held in May 2016 in the UAE. IRCC9 planned for June 2017 in Suriname. Support the IHB to implement the planning None Ongoing. mechanism annually IRCC Work Programme for 2016-2017, IRCC8-09/2016 Contributing to the IHO Annual Report None Ongoing. IRCC Work Programme for 2016-2017, IRCC8-04/2016 Updating and implementing the IRCC Work None IRCC Work Programme for 2016-2017 was Programme updated at the IRCC8. Implementation is ongoing. C-17 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 NSHC REPORT Overall status of the work programme of NSHC Aug 2016 Compiled by Declan Black, email: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time Shared European contacts and projects none In cooperation with other RHC’s and IENWG Shared progress with up to date bathymetric Limited survey capacity Resurvey strategies for dynamic areas and coverage of north sea Lack of basin wide risk assessment emerging new methods are taken into account Dover and resurvey working group merged Shared experiences with MSDI none Baltic and North sea MSDI working group merged with joint Terms of reference. Shared progress on establishment of vertical Difficulty in merging due to differing Task of eliminating/analyzing errors at reference frame references used national boundaries being coordinated by tidal working group C-18 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 MBSHC REPORT Overall status of the work programme of MBSHC Aug 2016 Compiled by Eric LANGLOIS, email: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time Selection of Member States from MBSHC to As the Amended Convention on the IHO and A MBSHC circular letter to be disseminated the IHO Council. its Basic Documents will enter into force on 8 in early September in that scope. November 2016, MBSHC will initiate its procedure for selection MSs to IHO council according to the revised rules decided at the last MBSHC Conference (decision MBSHC19/05). Regional International Charting Coordination - A silence procedure was initiated in April The 13th BASWG Meeting held in Istanbul in Following up the decision taken at the 19th regarding the submission of 16 charts in April has been a good opportunity to raise MBSHC Conference: Marmara and Black Seas as Region F INT sub-regional charting issues, with the charts. As the silence was broken by a participation, for the first time, of the Regional ICCWG Member on those proposals, a new Charting Coordinator. silence procedure is to be initiated regarding those proposals plus other relevant proposals received by the region charting Coordinator, - Technical discussions between FR, ES and DZ regarding the Western Mediterranean INT scheme began. A letter is to be disseminated by the Coordinator to summarize the proposals made by the concerned MSs. Regional ENC Coverage Coordination One of the reasons of the absence of agreed Discussions are still pending between IT and ENC scheme in region F remains the lack of the other UB1 producer nations based on progress on the resolution of UB1 overlapping proposals submitted by IT last July. cases and leading to a disparate UB1 scheme At the 31st of July, no improvement is to be in contradiction with a well-established small reported regarding that issue. C-19 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time scale INT charts scheme covering the region. Besides, the persistency of some UB1 scheme overlapping cases and the significant domino effect associated with the solving of UB2 overlapping cases prevents the ICCWG from properly addressing the UB2-3 schemes. Therefore, the MBSHC decided to task all ENC producer nations concerned by those UB1 overlaps to liaise with each other under the coordination of IT and to report back to RCC on the resolution of those overlapping cases by the end of the year (action MBSHC19/27). Besides, the proposal of focusing on larger scale usage bands, such as UB4-5-6, was then approved (action MBSHC19/29) as an alternative in order to move forward on the approval of ENC schemes in the region. Capacity Building Following up the decisions taken at CBSC14 regarding the new procedures 11, a draft MBSHC 3-year CB plan and a regional assessment of CB phase stage of MBSHC coastal States have been disseminated to the MBSHC Member States and provided to the IHB. C-20 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 MACHC REPORT Overall status of the work programme of MACHC Compiled by Leendert Dorst, Hydrographic Service of the Royal Netherlands Navy - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals and priorities Current or expected gaps and needs Comments increase membership and regional cooperation developments on the use of Spanish needed 1. Membership is growing. 2. Strong participation of industry during the MACHC Conferences. shared progress to reach an up to date bathymetric 1. limited survey capacity; 1. emerging survey methods (LIDAR, SDB, CSB) coverage of the MACHC area 2. lack of a basin-wide risk assessment are taken into account 2. developments on risk assessment methodologies are followed closely achieve full ENC coverage None 1. coordinated by the MACHC Integrated Charting Committee. 2. of the 833 current and planned ENCs required to meet WEND principles for adequate ENC coverage, 723 are currently published and available (87%). The number is growing steadily. ensure all coastal states reach CB Phase 1 status. None 1. coordinated by the MACHC CB Committee. 2. The requirement to deliver capacity building activities in Spanish is being met. 3. Annual Hydrographic Awareness Seminars are organized in conjunction with MACHC meetings to raise awareness in the region. contribute to a regional marine SDI through the None The MACHC ENC Online database is now Marine Environmental Infrastructure Programme available in two versions, one with password (MEIP) of MACHC. protection (for CU, CO, MX, NL, UK, US ENCs) and one without password protection (for CU, CO, MX, NL, US ENCs). C-21 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 SAIHC REPORT Overall status of the work programme of SAIHC Compiled by …Captain Abri Kampfer - e-mail address: [email protected]. Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time Promote technical co-operation in the domain Majority of Associate Member States in Shortcomings have been identified during of hydrographic surveying, marine region have still not achieved Phase 1 technical visits within the region and are being cartography, and nautical information within hydrographic development. addressed through the SAIHC Capacity the Region Building Strategy. National reports presented at the SAIHC Conference allow the opportunity for Associate Member States to provide feedback on progress and request specific support. Next ICCWG and SAIHC Conference scheduled to be held in Cape Town from 29 to 31 August 2016. Stimulate all countries within the Region to Lack of funding and government support. Visits by IHB President identified as a SAIHC widen hydrographic activity in the area and to High level interaction required to inform Capacity Building priority. CBSC 13 encourage them to seek technical advice and decision makers at the political levels of approved a SAIHC requirement for a High assistance from the IHB in establishing and Government to create awareness and garner level visit to Tanzania by IHB President and strengthening their hydrographic capabilities support for in-country officials. SAIHC Chair for 2016. CB Coordinator in in order to promote safe navigation and create process to establish most suitable date. an environment within which economic development may take place Facilitate the exchange of information The lack of functioning hydrographic offices SAIHC Conference and SAIHC ICCWG are concerning surveys, research or scientific and and National Hydrographic Committees createused to communicate the requirements and technical developments, to aid in the planning some difficulty to obtain information. obtain information from delegates. Between and organisation of hydrographic activities scheduled conferences there is only communication with INT Chart producers and no feedback from Associate Member countries Conduct Capacity Building projects as Two events planned for 2016 execution, the The Phase 1 Skills Course was successfully C-22 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 approved by CBSC High Level Visit to Tanzania and MBES conducted in Walvis Bay, Namibia and a setting to work project for Mozambique, may report has been submitted. Two events be problematic to execute planned for 2016 execution is the High Level Visit to Tanzania and MBES setting to work project for Mozambique. C-23 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 HCA REPORT Overall status of the work programme of …The IHO Hydrographic Commission on Antarctica (HCA) Compiled by: Chair, HCA (Robert Ward) e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time 1. Co-operation with International Practical liaison and the regular, systematic HCA-13 (June 2016) took action that HCA Organizations and participation in relevant exchange of information and experience MS will identify and brief relevant in-country meetings (see IHO WP 1.1.1, 1.1.3 and between HCA (IHO) national representatives organizations and HCA MS will seek to 1.1.20)…in order to further the interests of the and other in-country national representatives provide a targeted briefing session to the IHO by enlisting their support and cooperation involved in other international organizations ATCM in 2018. and to participate in projects of common concerned with Antarctica continues to be interest (ATCM, COMNAP, IAATO, SCAR, limited and sub-optimal. In many cases, IMO). neither party is aware of the activities of the other. Similarly, an effective exchange of information and an awareness of the activities and complementary aims of the IHO HCA with those of other international organizations concerned with Antarctica is currently is lacking. C-24 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 CBSC REPORT Overall status of the work programme of Capacity Building Subcommittee (CBSC) Compiled by Thomas Dehling - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time The goals and priorities are provided in the CB Fund: At the current stage the available Weakness: CB fund currently strongly respective Capacity Building Work CB funds are not sufficient to fund all the depends on voluntary contribution from a Programme and the CBSC 14 list of actions as accepted projects submitted for 2016 and limited number of countries. There is no clear published on the IHO website. 2017. indication at this stage what will be the total The CB programme is in urgent need for contribution available in 2017 additional funds, especially in the light of a CB Administration: it can be acknowledged widened scope for the support of that a noticeable improvement in the comprehensive projects. administrative support started in 2016 but the The assessment of the CB Phases in coastal knowledge base on CB requires a steady and States is key for an informed decision making permanent dedicated staff. process by the CBSC and this assessment is Assessment of the CB Phases: the CBSC 14 heavily dependent on the work of the CB adopted the use of a draft CB Procedure 11 to Coordinators that are not always guide CB Coordinators on this assessment. available/knowledgeable to do this assessment However, the RHCs need to appoint in each RHC. permanent CB Coordinators for periods longer CB Administration: The success of the CB is than the Chairman period. accompanied by a growing amount of workload for the staff at the IHB as well as the involved contributors from MS. To work successfully according to the CB Strategy a sustainable support for the CB administration is crucial. C-25 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 IENWG REPORT 11 July 2016 (last IENWG meeting held in St-Mandé 18-19 January 2016) Overall status of the work programme of IHO-EC network WG Compiled by Laurent Kerléguer - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for Current or expected gaps Any amplifying comments your group and needs that may prevent completion of tasks on time To monitor the outcome of the The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG EC call for tender “Coastal Mare) has awarded a contract on coastal mapping call MARE/2014/10 to the 18 partners’ mapping” consortium led by SHOM. Duration of the contract is 36 months. Progress: The principles of the algorithm that will help in choosing the best way to assess the knowledge in coastal areas were validated by the project team during the Roma (IT) meeting in early March 2016. The next objectives are:  To improve the algorithm by gathering more information (on costs in particular) from non-partners  To set up the algorithm function on the portal in order to promote it and help the previous objective  To build and submit an acquisition programme by using the algorithm and taking into account economic models, data policies and EU funding. On 20 April a meeting was organized by the Administrator for Maritime affaires and fisheries of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) in Brussels, with the Director of the EMODNET secretariat and Coastal Mapping project, to discuss the first results of the project and the possibility to get support from CoR political representatives to develop future proposals. To prepare the position of The Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises (EASME) issued a call for European HOs about the future tender for “High resolution seabed mapping” on 4 May 2016. phase of EMODNet, the long The tendering provisions previously defined by IENWG have been implemented. A term marine data initiative from consortium comprising several HOs is currently working on the preparation of a tender. the European Commission Deadline for submission is 2 August 2016 C-26 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 Principal goals or priorities for Current or expected gaps Any amplifying comments your group and needs that may prevent completion of tasks on time To improve cooperation with the IHB Director Gilles Bessero and Ingénieur Général Bruno Frachon, National European Commission, by Hydrographer of France, on behalf of the IENWG, met with Mr Joao Aguiar Machado, promoting amongst its entities Director-General MARE at the European Commission (EC) in Brussels, Belgium. In and with decision makers the role that occasion IHB director an SHOM’s director have stressed the need to ensure the of the hydrographic offices in sustainability of EMODnet in the long term, building on the operational role of development of EU maritime Hydrographic Offices (HOs) and the relevance of the expertise of the HOs in relation to policies. maritime spatial planning and climate change issues. Application of IENWG to the Maritime Spatial Planning Expert Group, with an observer status, has been accepted. Sweden (Magnus Wallhagen Head of Production Hydrographic Office, Swedish Maritime Administration) represented IENWG at the European Marine Day in Turku on 18-19 May 2016. Next IENWG meeting will take place in Brussels on 13-14 October will be an opportunity to facilitate contact with other DGs. To monitor European directives, IENWG considering how EU Directive on Marine Equipment could foster the calls for tenders and proposals, requirement that software-based equipment such as ECDIS be updated to the latest projects, events, etc., potentially version of the relevant standards. impacting HOs and to define actions to be conducted in HOs of EU/EEA have liaised with their relevant administration to make sure that the accordance question of ECDIS maintenance is on the agenda of the next Maritime Equipment Expert Group (http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&grou pID=2653). This question has not yet been raised at the MED expert group. C-27 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 CSBWG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of the IRCC CSBWG Compiled by Lisa Taylor - e-mail address: [email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time Prepare an IHO publication on policy for  WG member availability WG received no feedback on draft guidance trusted crowd-sourced bathymetry to provide  Need for IHO to vet and provide an document from the IRCC. guidelines on the collection and assessment online file sharing application and of CSB data, not only for potential use for virtual meeting technology (e.g., Box, charting purposes but also for its wider use Google Docs and Hangout). in non-navigational applications. C-28 Progress of the IHO Work Programme at the mid of 2016 SRWG REPORT Overall status of the work programme of SRWG Compiled by Andrew Millard - e-mail address: …[email protected] Principal goals or priorities for your group Current or expected gaps and needs that Any amplifying comments may prevent completion of tasks on time In accordance with ToR of the SRWG: SRWG has approved the final version of the Review proposed revised draft regulation revised SRs and these have been circulated to Review implementation plan member states for approval. Unless Member States do not approve them Review proposed job descriptions for and require further work to be done by the directors under new structure SRWG I believe the work of this group, as directed by Member States in the ToR of October 14, to be complete. C-29  Annex D to IHO CL 48/2016 RESPONSES FROM MEMBER STATES TO IHO CL 14/2016 CHILE We take note that the level of response continue to diminish and we are of the opinion that it is due to the low or lack of influence such reports have as a contribution to improve the management of the IHO. Several Reports do not identify gaps and problems or needs or do not offer any information requiring action from MSs. Therefore the value of the Reports seems not to compensate the effort in its preparation and analysis. Probably having Reports once a year is an acceptable reporting regime. COLOMBIA - We note a significant progress of the activities compared to the previous report. - In relation with the reporting process, we recommend that the reports be presented annually, as more results would be obtained in that timeframe. FRANCE SHOM shares the view expressed by Sweden in the Annex D of IHO CL 14/2016 that a six-monthly reporting rhythm is appropriate for HSSC, IRCC and their subordinate bodies and an annual rhythm would be appropriate for the reporting of Regional Hydrographic Commissions. MAURITIUS Mauritius supports the procedure of biannual reports for IHO bodies and sub-organs, and annual reports for Regional Hydrographic Commissions (RHCs). SINGAPORE Singapore supports the usefulness of bi-annual reports as these provide close monitoring on the activities which is necessary for them to achieve the desired outcome. This also acts as an avenue for working groups to share their limitations which could be advised by other working groups with the relevant expertise. The low response rate could be due to the lack of awareness of some Regional Hydrographic Commission and working groups. D-1 Signe Paevere From: CL-LC <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 4:39 PM To: 'Argentina'; 'Aus'; 'Bahrain'; 'Bang'; 'Belg'; 'Brazil'; 'Brunei'; 'Canada'; 'Chile'; 'China'; 'Croatia'; 'Cuba'; 'Cyp'; 'Den'; 'DomRep'; 'DPRK'; 'Egypt-ENHD'; VA_hnt; 'Fiji'; 'Finland'; 'France'; 'Georgia'; 'Ger'; 'Greece'; 'Guat'; 'Iceland'; 'India'; 'Indonesia'; Iran; 'Ireland'; 'Italy'; 'Jamaica'; 'Japan'; 'Korea'; 'Kuw'; 'Latvia'; 'Malays'; 'Mauritius'; 'Montenegro'; 'Mozambique'; Myanmar; 'Nether'; 'Nigeria'; 'Norway'; 'NZ'; 'Oman'; 'Pak'; 'Philip'; 'PNG'; 'Poland'; 'Port'; 'Qatar'; 'Rom'; 'Russia'; 'S Africa'; 'SA'; 'Sing'; 'Slo'; 'Suriname'; 'Sweden'; 'Syria'; 'Thailand'; 'Tonga'; 'TT'; 'Turk'; 'UK'; 'Ukraine'; 'Urug'; 'USNOAA'; 'Ven'; 'Vietnam' Cc: 'Argentina'; 'Australia'; 'Bahrain'; 'Banglasedh2'; Belgium; 'Belgium'; 'Belgium'; 'Belgium'; 'Belgium'; 'Belgium'; 'Brazil'; 'Brunei'; 'Canada'; 'Chile'; 'China'; 'Croatia'; 'Croatia'; 'Cuba'; 'Denmark'; 'Denmark'; 'DPRK'; Tõnis Siilanarusk; 'Fiji'; 'France'; 'Germany'; 'Germany'; 'Greece'; Guatemala; 'Iceland'; 'India'; 'India'; 'Iran'; 'Ireland'; 'Italy'; 'Malaysia'; 'Mauritius'; 'Mauritius'; 'Mozambique'; 'Mozambique'; 'Philip'; 'Philip2'; 'Philip3'; 'Portugal'; 'Portugal'; 'SaudiArabia'; 'Slovenia'; 'SriLanka'; 'Suriname'; 'Suriname'; 'Sweden'; 'Thailand'; 'Thailand'; 'Tonga'; 'Trinidad'; 'Tunisia'; 'Tunisia'; 'UAE'; 'Ukraine'; USANOAA; 'USNOAA'; 'USNOAA'; 'USNOAA'; 'Vietnam'; 'Vietnam2'; 'Vietnam3'; 'Vietnam3'; 'Astrid.Kalvik'; 'C Andreasen'; 'ECC'; 'eva.hegland'; 'hs-varna'; 'ilda.becirovic'; 'info'; 'J Lowell NGA'; 'J Rogers NGA'; 'jacek.jagodzinski'; 'K Alexander NGA'; 'Minika Bjorge'; 'P Doherty NGA'; 'solvi.tunge'; 'stig.osaland'; 'svein.skjaeveland'; 'tonje.mevatne'; 'tore.halset' Subject: CL 48/2016 - Deadline 1 Dec 2016 Attachments: Cl48-16.docx Dear Hydrographer, Please find attached herewith : CL 48/2016 : REPORT ON THE OVERALL STATUS OF THE IHO WORK PROGRAMME MID-YEAR 2016 Yours sincerely, IHB M.MOLLET 1