... and other “Smart” approaches for the mariner
Company of Master Mariners of Canada - NL Division
April 28th, 2009
“Simple access by all stakeholders to data and
information in support of effective
management and sustainable development of
coastal ocean areas and the safety and
security of life at sea.”
or simply put:
Better Information….Better Decisions
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Economic importance
– Year round activity
– Fishery, oil and gas, transportation, tourism, new
heavy industry proposed and under development.
– 2nd to Vancouver in value of goods shipped
– Over 500 fishing enterprises
90 x125 kms
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Environmental sensitivity
– Brander-Smith Report (1990), Transport Canada
(2008)
– 30+ years without a major incident
– 1200 tanker movements/yr. – 320 Mbbls
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Rapidly becoming the Province’s industrial
heartland
– Location of choice for new heavy industry
Photo: Newfoundland LNG Limited
• Access to static and dynamic/real time
data from a variety of sources
• Focus on applications of the technology
• Outputs must be readily accessible and
practical – in other words useful to all
potential end users
• Applications from research to practical
Better Information….Better
Decisions
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Wind direction
air temperature
humidity
dew point
barometric
pressure
wind speed
water temperature
salinity,
current speed
current direction
wave height
wave direction
wave period
230 m.
24 m.
27 m.
Come by Chance Point buoy equipped
with a Nortek AWAC providing full
current and wave data
Below Water;
- Salinity
- Sea surface temperature
- Dissolved Oxygen
- 7 channels of upwelling radiance
data (ocean color)
- Chlorophyll fluorescence
- Turbidity
- surface current speed and
direction
Above Water;
- Wind Speed and Direction
- Air temperature
- Barometric pressure and relative
humidity
138 m.
Significant wave height
• Maximum wave height
• Wave period
• Wave direction
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(on loan to the project from the
Institute of Ocean Technology NRC)
All maintenance, sensor
integration and
computer/server support is
handled in-house by MI and
the SmartBay partners
AMEC, ICAN and EIT
• General weather synopsis
• High Resolution forecasts for areas of
interest
– SmartBay is the first commercial
application of the Weather Research
and Forecast (WRF) hi-res. forecast
model in Canada
• Prediction of wind, waves, air, sea
temperature, precipitation, icing potential
To come
• Current circulation model
• Spill trajectory modeling
• Aimed at Shipboard Users
- Transport, Fishing and workboats
- ECS based user interface
- AIS as primary communications backbone
-“live” met and oceanographic information
• 8 vessels equipped with ECS and AIS
Tara Chantelle – Port au Bras (Morris Fudge)
Eastern Point – North Harbour (Earl Johnston)
Yellow Fin – Monkstown (Ross Dunphy)
Linda & Marie III – Southern Harbour (Mike Norman)
Sarah & Eileen – Rushoon (Bernard Norman)
Bay Rover II – Dave Slade (North Harbour)
Murray - RCMP (Burin)
36‟ Narwhal RIB maintenance boat (Marine Institute)
•SmartBay buoys are equipped with ATONiS
Improves vessel safety and situational
awareness in the bay
….a typical 6 hours
in Hong Kong
Harbour
Source: ICAN Ltd.
AIS, Hong Kong
Harbour
•Test-bed and demo. site for new technologies –
buoys can accommodate additional instrumentation
•Data source for other commercial and R&D
initiatives
•An operational „laboratory‟ supporting innovation
and training through applied R&D with industry,
government and academia
•Spin-off projects – eg. Northern Radar, Compusult, Lotek
Home Page
Average/Month (8 month period)
Buoys
6844
Weather
2004
Harbours
525
Communities
316
Seabed Mapping
134
Ocean Science
81
Water Quality
205
Industrial
81
IM Committee
87
• Move from demo. to operational
• Acquisition of additional met/ocean buoys
• Dev‟t of circulation and high res. spill trajectory
models incorporating real-time weather and seastate
data
• Enhanced information exchange to users – AIS,
ATONiS, text messaging, PDAs etc.
• Expansion to Grand Banks and Fortune Bay
• Enhance R&D and educational aspects