APPENDIX B

APPENDIX B

MesoAmerican – Caribbean Sea Hydrographic Commission (MACHC)

Electronic Chart Working Group (ECWG)

Action List from 24 March 2003 Meeting

1. Task Group 1

large table à matrix - U.S. (Milen Dyoulgerov) to complete

Panama (Fuentes) to translate into Spanish

Member States (Honduras, Belize, Guatemala) will send back to Fuentes by 18 April

U.S. (Cooper) will contact Belize re: matrix

Panama (Fuentes) will send to Honduras and Guatemala

Need a description on how to coordinate with Meso-American Barrier Reef Project (BR) - U.S. NAVO and NOAA

Need description of available training and associated costs (US & UK)

Panama (Fuentes) to coordinate with COCATRAM on input to matrix

Need cost estimates of various aspects related to "training" on capacity building for the Gulf of Honduras project proposal to the GEF (U.S.—NAVO and NOAA)

Submit Final Matrices to IADB by 1 May - Panama (Fuentes)

Identify standards for data/display of non-navigation information – NOAA (Alexander IAW with HGMIO)

UK (Wright) to provide a sample report and questionnaire for region

2. Task Group 2

[Note: The following list is similar to what was distributed to participants in printed copy during the meeting].

1) Overall Approach: Within two months (by 1 June 2003), Member States to provide their requirements/needs:

a. Identify What needs to be produced (ports and routes)

b. Determine How to do (e.g., digitize existing PCs)

c. Decide Who will perform

2) What needs to be produced?

- An "area" equals both routes and ports.

- routes are between ports (which may or may not be with in the region)

- ports involve large-scale ENCs

3) Areas, Ports and Routes Selection

Areas and Key ports:

Based on Capt. Espinoza’s slide #7, #8, & #10, below, the following areas have been re-numbered:

*Slide 7 - Possible Initial Routes for Consideration*
*Slide 8 - Major Container Ports in the Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico*
*Slide 10 - Major Commercial Shipping Routes/Lanes*

Area 1 à 1a – New Orleans, Houston, Havana

Area 2 à 1b – Cancun, Cozumel

Area 3 à 1c – Cristobal, Cartagena

Area 4 à 2a – Puerto Cabello, La Guaira, Bridgetown, Willemstad, Fort de France, Point Pitre

Area 5 à 2b – Kingston, Ocho Rios, Georgetown (Cayman Islands)

Area 6 à 2c – Miami, Freeport, Nassau

Area 7 à 2d – San Juan, St. Thomas

Area 8, 9 & 10 à 3 – important environmental protection areas

Routes:

- based on "revised" route diagram (see Capt. Espinoza’s Slide #7, right)

Route #1 – Panama – Yucatan Channel – southern USA

Route #2 – Panama – North coast S. America – E. Caribbean

Route #3 – Panama – Windward Passage – east coast USA/North Atlantic

Route #4 – Cruise Ships [to be determined at 1 April 2003 Miami meeting of Cruise Line Operators organized by Marine Press of Canada]

Key ports:

Area 1 à 1a

New Orleans – NOAA produced ENCs exist (digitized from nautical chart)

Houston – NOAA produced ENCs exist (digitized from nautical chart)

Havana – GEOCUBA produced ENCs exist (digitized from nautical chart)

Area 2 à 1b

Cancun & Cozumel – DIGADHICAR "will" produce, soon (digitized)

Area 3 à 1c

Cristobal – Panama to decide on two alternatives:

Alternative A - NIMA paper chart digitized à DNC à ENC

Alternative B – NIMA paper chart digitized à by UK HO à ENC

Cartagena – Colombia HO has produced ENC (from source?)

Area 4 à 2a

Puerto Cabello – [Note: Venezuela to confirm]

La Guaira - [Note: Venezuela to confirm]

Bridgetown – Barbados will provide to UK HO: New survey data à ENC (large-scale)

Willemstad – paper chart à ENC, Netherlands HO (survey source data, in future)

Fort de France – SHOM has an ENC production plan (digitizing)

Point a Pitre - SHOM has an ENC production plan (digitizing)

Area 5 à 2b

Kingston – ENCs already produced by digitizing by UK HO

Ocho Rios – ENCs being produced by digitizing by UK HO

Georgetown (Cayman Islands) – Jamaica and UK HO will digitize into ENC

Area 6 à 2c

Miami – ENCs already produced by NOAA (digitized)

Freeport – ENC production to be planned by UK HO, by digitizing

Nassau - ENC production to be planned by UK HO, by digitizing

Area 7 à 2d

San Juan – ENCs being considered by NOAA (would be digitized)

St. Thomas – ENCs being planned, bathy source data collected

Routes:

to be based on "revised" route diagram (slide #7)

Two approaches:

1. short-term: use National HO chart scheme (name/number) and scales

2. longer-term: use the "new" INT Chart Scheme (issued at this meeting)

Process: Using GIS tools, produce a database showing current National HO chart coverage capable of being used in conjunction with:

four (4) primary routes (see below)
area coverage diagram (1a-c, 2a-d, 3) [Note: Mexico will re-draw]
new INT chart scheme

NOAA (Steve Morrison) will help develop for ECWG – TG2.

[Note: IHB is also producing a similar GIS approach for WEND Committee].

Route #1 – Panama – Yucatan Channel – southern USA

Route #2 – Panama – North coast S. America – E. Caribbean

Route #3 – Panama – Windward Passage – east coast USA/North Atlantic

Route #4 – [to be determined at 1 April 2003 Miami Cruise Ship Operator meeting, Lee Alexander will compile]

HO that will be responsible for defining responsibility for ENC production for routes within specified areas:

Area 1 à 1a – USA & Mexico

Area 2 à 1b – Mexico & USA

Area 3 à 1c – Mexico & USA

Area 4 à 2a – UK & The Netherlands

Area 5 à 2b – UK

Area 6 à 2c – UK & USA

Area 7 à 2d – UK & USA

Area 8, 9 & 10 à 3 [to be determined]

3. Additional Actions to be Accomplished by ECWG

a. Add to List of Participants in Task Groups

Chairs of Task Groups (Mexico and Panama)

TG 1 – add UK

TG 2 – add Barbados

b. SPWG Questions

- translate Ken Cooper’s slide on SPWG questions into Spanish

- Distribute the outcome of the SPWG Chair Group IHO structure document (Ken Cooper)

- Ken Cooper needs comments back by 1 May 2003

[Note: Every MS should consider that their participation in SPWG is important if IHO is to evolve and improve the way it operates to MS satisfaction]

c. Send out digital copies of the regional international chart diagram and country responsibility matrix; also, post on MACHC-ECWG website (U.S. NOAA)

d. All ECWG Participants send in their principal points of contact for the regional International chart project to the Mexican Chair, Captain Cornelio, by May 15 along with which charts they will be responsible for either producing and/or distributing (per the matrix distributed at the meeting).

e. The COCATRAM representative should be contacted and invited to participate in ECWG, and particularly, the activities of TG1.