| Monday, 12th September | |
| 0920: | Welcome and Introduction |
| 0950: |
Trials, tribulations and successes of advances in shallow water survey
methods Vice Admiral Alexandros Maratos President International Hydrographic Bureau |
| 1030: | Coffee/tea |
| Session 1: | Survey Systems |
| 1115: | Field Verification of MBES error models
Dr Brian Calder Research Assistant Professor Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping & NOAA-UNH Joint Hydrographic Center, USA |
| 1130: | A direct comparison of the motion sensors’ performance from the
Shallows Survey 2005 Common Dataset Duncan Mallace, Managing Director, NetSurvey Ltd David Parker, Bathymetry Advisor, UKHO |
| 1200: | Survey of Plymouth Sound using the GeoAcoustics GeoSwath Plus. Peter Hogarth GeoAcoustics Ltd |
| 1230 | Lunch |
| Session 2: | Survey Systems continued |
| 1400: | Improved object detection with new generation of multibeam echo sounders Freddy Pøhner, Kongsberg Maritime AS |
| 1430: | Comparison of object detection; reviewing analogue/digital sidescan sonar and swathe bathymetry
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| 1500: | Tea/coffee |
| Session 3: | Survey Systems continued |
| 1530: | Empirical Object Detection Performance of Lidar and
Multibeam in Long Island Sound |
| 1600: | Meeting IHO hydrographic charting specifications with SHOALS-1000T Airborne LIDAR Bathymeter David Millar Vice President, Coast Mapping and LIDAR Services Fugro Pelagos Inc. |
| 1630: | Beam to chart: a case study of a lidar survey in the Sound of Harris Mark Sinclair Tenix LADS Corporation |
| 1700: | Effective surveying in the coastal zone and beyond Peter Hobson Managing Director, Admiralty Coastal Surveys AB |
| 1730: | Conference ends for Day One |
| 1900: | ‘Ice-Breaker’ reception at the National Marine Aquarium |
| For a full listing of contributing authors, please refer to the conference website. Programme and speakers are subject to change |
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Tuesday, 13th September |
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| Session 1: Survey Systems | |
| 0900: | 3D chirp sub-bottom imaging system: design and 3D volumes Dr Martin Gutowski School of Ocean and Earth Sciences Southampton Oceanography Centre |
| 0930: | High resolution sub-bottom profiling for the “Shallow Survey 2005” common data set using the parametric echosounder SES-2000 Sabine Müller Managing Director, INNOMAR Technologie GmbH |
| 1000: | High resolution synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) survey of Plymouth Harbour: results from Geoacoustics GeoSAS Nigel Glover ,QinetiQ Ltd Dr T.M. Hiller ,Advanced Products Manager GeoAcoustics Ltd |
| 1030: | Coffee/tea |
| Session 2: | Seabed Characteristics and Monitoring |
| 1100: | Comparison between different seabed classification techniques and validation with sediment samples on two shallow-water dumping sites (Belgian continental shelf) Isabelle Du Four Renard Centre of Marine Geology (RCMG) Ghent University, Belgium |
| 1100: | The morphology, three-dimensional flow & sediment dynamics of large river confluence: the Rio Paraná & Rio Paraguay, Argentina Prof. Jim Best University of Leeds |
| 1200: | Using multibeam echosounders to monitor the impact of human activities on the marine environment Koen Vanstaen, Geophysical Scientist The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquacultural Sciences, UK |
| 1230: | Lunch |
| Session 3: | Processing Methods |
| 1400: | Adapting CUBE for phase measuring bathymetric sonars Tom Hiller & Peter Hogarth, GeoAcoustics Ltd Brian Calder, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping and BOAA-UNH Joint Hydrographic Center, University of New Hampshire Lindsay Gee, IVS 3D Inc. |
| 1430: | Extended applications of CUBE Lloyd Huff and Mashkoor Malik, University of New Hampshire,USA |
| 1500: | Tea/coffee |
| Session 4: | Processing Methods continued |
| 1530: | Reducing depth errors from squat and settlement: bounding the problem by controlled trials Richard Cullen, Royal Australian Navy and GeoAcoustics Ltd |
| 1600: | A method for correcting time varying errors in multibeam soundings Alex Osborne and Richard Hale, EGS Surveys |
| 1630: | CUBE in CARIS HIPS 6.0 – implementation and user-benefit Ottokarl Büchsenschütz-Nothdurft, Hydrographic Surveyor CARIS BV |
| 1700: | Using the Common Dataset in Hydrographic Education Peter Knight University of Otago, New Zealand |
| 1730: | Conference ends for Day Two. Evening at leisure. |
Wednesday, 14th September |
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| Session 1: | National Programmes |
| 0900: | Retro-fitting the “Anglian Sovereign” with Reson 7125 multibeam Rob Spillard , Hydrographic Manager & Capt. J P. Collins,Head of Navigation Safety Branch, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, UK |
| 0930: | The Israel National Bathymetric survey (NBS): findings and lessons Dr John K. Hall , Marine Geophysicist Geological Survey of Israel |
| 1000: | The Litto3D Project: The French approach to integrated coastal management Patrick Michaux, MBES Systems Project Manager Nathalie Debese,MBES Systems Co-Project Manager Laurent Louvart, Litto3D Project Manager |
| 1030: | Coffee/tea |
| Session 2: | National Programmes continued |
| 1115: | Colouring the “white ribbon”: regional coastal monitoring in the southeast of the UK Travis Mason Channel Coastal Observatory, National Oceanography Centre,UK |
| 1145: | Developing a framework for regional marine habitat mapping in the Outer Bristol Channel, UK. Ceri James, Marine, Coastal and Hydrocarbons British Geological Survey |
| 1215: | Shallow survey of the Northern Orkney archipelago Ola Oskarsson, Managing Director Marin Mätternik AB |
| Conference ends for Day Three | |
| 1245: | Lunch |
| 1400: | Field Trips A number of specialist survey vessels will be moored in Plymouth for visits by conference delegates. Vessels presently booked: Coda Octopus, HMS Enterprise, MV Triton, and a visit to the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, Taunton |
| 1900: | Conference Dinner |
Thursday, 15th September |
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| Session 1: | Products, Data Handling and Standards |
| 0900: | Multibeam survey of the dock board walls of Ancona Harbour Sarine Manoukian CNR – Istituto di Scienze Marine (ISMAR), Italy |
| 0930: | The Open Navigation Surface Project Shannon Byrne and colleagues: National Ocean Service, USA; Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping & NOAA/UNH Joint Hydrographic Center; Science Applications International Cor; Naval Oceanographic Office; CARIS Ltd; Seven Cs AG & Co; IVS3D Ltd. |
| 1000: | Customisation of geographical information systems (GIC) for estimating costs of hydrographic surveys Michael J.M. Cunningham and Rob Spillard, Maritime and Coastguard Agency,UK |
| 1030: | Coffee/tea |
| Session 2: | Products, Data Handling and Standards continued |
| 1115: | S-44 Edition 5 – the new standard for IHO surveys Chris Howlett,Head of the Bathymetric Data Centre United Kingdom Hydrographic Office |
| 1145: | Digital marine mapping – source data to products Dr Mike Osborne, SeaZone Solutions Ltd |
| 1215: | Expanding product and client base after implementation of multibeam John Pinder, Port Hydrographer Port of London Authority |
| 1245: | Lunch |
| Session 3: | Marine Archaeology |
| 1400: | Lessons learnt from a high resolution multibeam survey of an artificial archaeological test site in Plymouth Sound Martin Dean , Senior Research Fellow University of St. Andrews, Scotland |
| 1430: | Wrecks on the seabed: making the most of survey data Dr Paul Baggaley, Senior Marine Geophysicist Wessex Archaeology |
| 1500: | Tea/coffee |
| Session 4: | Vertical Datums |
| 1530: | The use of wide area DGPS as an aid in tidal modelling Dave Mann, Survey Support Manager Gardline Geosurvey Ltd |
| 1600: | MLLW and the BAD83 Ellipsoid: an investigation of local offsets and trends using PPK and gauge derived water surfaces Doug Lockhart Fugro Pelagos, Inc |
| 1630: | Vertical offshore reference frame – VORF Bob Willis, Head of Geodesy & Imagery Centre United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. |
| 1700: | Conference ends. Closing remarks and thanks from the Organisers. |
