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USACE Inland Electronic Navigational Charts (IENC)

MAPPS Breakfast at ASPRS

Louisville, Kentucky

Denise R. LaDue USACE Inland ENC Production Manager

26 March 2014

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  US Inland Navigation Statistics   USACE Navigation Mission   Benefits of Electronic Chart Data   Chronology of USACE IENC Development   Status of USACE IENC Coverage   International Standards Development (IEHG)   USACE Partnering:

►  NOAA ►  U.S. Coast Guard

  IENC Data Download Services   Future Projects

USACE Inland Electronic Navigational Charts (IENC)

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One 15 Barge Tow

U.S. Navigation Statistics*

•  8,200 miles of inland waterways

•  158 lock chambers

•  565 million tons of commodities

  30% coal / coke

  27% petroleum

  15% other raw materials

  13% food & farm products

  9% chemicals

  6% manufactured products

* from the Navigation Data Center “TRANSPORTATION FACTS”, Nov. 2013

Equivalent Units 22,500 Tons =

225 Railroad Cars

900 Large Semi Trucks

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USACE IENC

USACE Channel Framework

USACE Channel Framework

USACE Channel Framework

USACE Navigation Mission

7,000  Miles  Completed  

106  IENCs  are  updated  and  maintained  monthly  (46  in-­‐house,  60  by  contractor)  

• 265  miles  (White  River)  scheduled  for  release  in  April  2014  

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15 Districts Involved with IENC Program

• Centrally  Funded  from  HQUSACE  thru  Louisville  District  

•   FY14  Budget  $3M  +  $500K  plus-­‐up  =  $3.5M  

• Approx.  $1.9M  in  contracts  awarded  annually  (54%  of  budget)  

• 85%  of  Hydrographic  &  Feature  Surveys  Performed  by  Contract  (15%  in-­‐house)  

• Contracts  awarded  thru  District  contract  vehicles  or  Na`onal  Capability  in  St.  Louis  District  

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•  A towboat pushing six barges, lost in the fog, struck the Big Bayou Canot bridge near Mobile, AL causing the track to misalign by approximately 3 feet.

•  Eight minutes later, AMTRAK Sunset Limited derailed on the railroad bridge and plunged into the waterway, killing 47 and injuring 103.

Disaster at Big Bayou Canot, 22 September 1993

An electronic chart system on the towboat may have prevented

the accident.

Electronic Chart Data for Safe and Efficient Navigation

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S-57 Standard, Edition 3.1 (For Maritime ENCs) •  2001 – US Congress tasked USACE to produce IENCs •  2001 – present – USACE produced & maintains106 IENC

cells, covering 19 waterways

IENC Standard, Edition 2.1-2.3 (For Inland ENCs) •  2010 – Decision made to produce new waterways to Inland

ENC standards (3 rivers produced to IENC 2.1) •  2011 - Conversion of charts from S-57 & IENC 2.1 to Inland

ENC 2.2 started •  2012 – Migration of all charts to IENC 2.2 Completed

•  2013 – IENC cells are only maintained in IENC 2.2 standard •  2014+ – Conversion of IENC cells to IENC 2.3 standard

Chronology of USACE IENC Development

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7,265  mi  of  inland  waterways  are  scheduled  for  Inland  ENC  coverage  

Inland ENC Coverage in USA

7,000  Miles  Completed  

106  IENCs  are  updated  and  maintained  monthly  (46  in-­‐house,  60  by  contractor)  

• 265  miles  (White  River)  scheduled  for  release  in  April  2014  

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River / Waterway Miles Kilometers Inland ENC 2.2 (Inland ENC)

Alabama River (304) (489) Planned 20??

Allegheny River 30 24 Published

Arkansas River 445 716 Published

Atchafalaya River 118 190 Published

Black Warrior River 235 378 Published

Cumberland River 381 613 Published

Green River 108 174 Published

Illinois Waterway 337 542 Published

Kanawha River 91 146 Published

Kaskaskia River 36 58 Published

Lower Mississippi River 715 1,151 Published

Missouri River 733 1,180 Published

Mobile / Tombigbee Rivers 217 349 Published

Monongahela River 129 208 Published

Ohio River 981 1,579 Published

Ouachita River 351 565 Published

Red River 237 381 Published

Tennessee River 765 1,231 Published

Tenn-Tom Waterway 225 362 Published

Upper Mississippi River 866 1,394 Published

White River 245 394 April 2014

Total 7,245 mi 11,660 km

Implementation of IENC Standard

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  Examples of unique features found in waterways which are not found in maritime waters

•  Casino / Gaming Boats

•  Fleeting Areas •  Ice Breakers •  Lock Guide Walls •  Exceptional Navigation Structures

What is meant by an Inland Standard?

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  Inland ENC Harmonization Group (IEHG) •  International Working Group •  Organized to develop and to maintain a standard for IENCs

suitable for inland navigation •  Standard based on the standards of International

Hydrographic Organization for ‘maritime’ ENCs (S-57) •  Standard is suitable for all known data requirements for safe

and efficient navigation in European, North American, Russian Federation, South American & Asian inland waterways

•  It is further intended that IENC standards meet the basic needs for Inland ENC applications, worldwide (e.g. Africa)

•  IEHG is aligning with S-100 and members participate in IHO meetings related to S-100

International IENC Standards and Development

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Corps of Engineers, Inland Waterways

NOAA, Coastal and Great Lakes

More consistent and reliable channel data from Corps for

NOAA charts

Coordination of adjoining charts

for seamless use by chart

systems

Partnering: NOAA Coordination and Data Sharing

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NOAA chart with channel embedded

NOAA’s data consists of 80% USACE data

Partnering: NOAA Coordination and Data Sharing

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•  Weekly Publication by USACE containing Depth Contours and Soundings

•  Use of “Scale Minimum” values enables the capability to view the shoalest soundings

• The overlay file, will overlay on NOAA ENCs and will provide timely depth information for a dynamic portion of the Lower Mississippi River

•  Pilot project for future ports and dynamic waterways (e.g. Columbia River & Port of Los Angeles)

Partnering: NOAA IENC Overlay Data for Southwest Pass

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•  A coastal data project •  Contracted through Mobile District •  Partnering Success with NOAA

Partnering: NOAA Channel Framework Data

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  Waterway road map   Beginning point for moving USACE into an enterprise

GIS program for managing the navigation business line   Link between OMBIL projects and the spatial

representation of those features   Foundation for organization of navigation and dredging

data across USACE.   Basis for USACE data to update NOAA ENC   Baseline feature for spatially updating the IWR waterway

network   Tracks channel history through authorized, maintained,

and any changes in channel dimensions

Partnering: NOAA Channel Framework Data

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Partnering: USCG Buoy Placement

US Coast Guard, District 8

Corps of Engineers, Inland Waterways

Mississippi River System

USACE USCG Survey Data for “problem” areas.

USCG USACE Buoy Locations from USCG Cutters

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•  USACE Survey data USCG for rock pinnacle area on Upper Miss River near Grand Chain

•  USCG Cutters used surveys to place buoys

•  USCG Excel file with Buoy Locations

•  USACE created Buoy Overlay for USCG & Towing

Partnering: USCG Buoy Placement During Low Water Event

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•  Buoy acquisition software installed on 15 USCG Cutters

•  Server software installed on AGC server

•  Ability to upload buoys (USCG) to server and download to files (USACE)

•  Release of first Buoy Overlay file occurred in April 2013

•  USACE updates and publishes Buoy Overlay files weekly (every Wednesday)

Partnering: USCG Buoy Placement

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•  Many discrepancies between “real world” and USCG Light List

•  USACE performed Vessel-born LiDAR surveys of bridges, overhead crossings & locks and dams

•  Clearance information (vertical and horizontal) is provided to the USCG Bridge Department

Partnering: USCG Bridge Clearance Information

•  USCG Updates the Light List to provide more accurate bridge clearance information

•  USACE IENCs match USCG Light List

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http://www.agc.army.mil/Missions/Echarts/ProductDownloads.aspx

IENC Data Download Services

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  Products Catalog

•  XML based: universal and flexible

•  Allows automated data updates

for software clients

•  Allows automated querying of available products

•  Expandable and scalable to accommodate future products and services

IENC Data Download Services

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•  RSS feeds

•  RSS based: universal and flexible

•  Catalog service driven

•  Automatic data status updates to users PC

•  Allows data download from users’ desktops

•  Supported on a wide range of clients: browsers, free and commercial RSS readers, Outlook, and other email clients.

Outlook Client

Browser Client

IENC Data Download Services

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•  Users provide feedback / report errors on IENCs •  District POC, Production and QA Manager will

receive email that an error has been reported •  District determines if error is legitimate and

makes correction to IENC

Chart Discrepancy Reports

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•  Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) issued an RFP in Dec, 2011 to sponsor pilot project with 10 Federal agencies to distribute their public data free for one year on Amazon Web Services (cloud), ending March, 2013

•  IENC was chosen because of relatively small dataset and expertise with ArcGIS. Approval was given by CIO, USACE to distribute public navigation data on AWS

•  Advantages include very high reliability of server performance, cost effective data hosting, scalable CPU availability, remote access for data updates; estimated to cost $800/month based on usage/storage

•  Over 6000 GIS layers uploaded to ArcGIS 10.1 on AWS. Several clients including ArcMap, ArcGIS Explorer, ArcGIS Javascript, Google Earth, ArcGIS.com Map available

IENC Cloud Background

www.ienccloud.us

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IENC Cloud: ArcMap Services

www.ienccloud.us

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IENC Cloud: WMS Services

www.ienccloud.us

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IENC Cloud: KML Services

www.ienccloud.us

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Mobile IENC Purpose: Provide a low-cost mobile platform for US inland water navigation and information management which traditionally require an expensive and dedicated ECS.

Products/Result(s): • Android-based mobile application • Back-end web services to support the mobile devices

• Geo-dataset and services provisioned for light-weight clients

Requirement : • Navigation data dissemination requirement from USACE Civil Works

• Cloud computing and mobile platforms initiatives

Transition Milestones:

• Distributed data services and mobile application products available to government agencies and the public.

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Questions?