This page contains the technical papers (as a PDF) presented at the U.S. Hydro 2003 Conference
FINAL PROGRAM
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Thursday
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| Session | Title | Chair | Time | Location |
| 1 | Opening Session | CAPT Samuel DeBow, Jr. | 0900-1000 | Camellia Room A |
| 1.1 | Welcome | Jerry Mills | ||
| 1.2 | Opening Remarks | CAPT Samuel DeBow, Jr., NOAA, President, THSOA; CAPT David MacFarland, Director, Office of Coast Survey, NOS/NOAA; RDML Thomas Donaldson, V, Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command; COL Robert Keyser, Mobile District Engineer, U.S. Army corps of Engineers; RDML Ken Barbor, USN (Ret.), Director, International Hydrographic Bureau; Denis Hains, Dominion Hydrographer, Director General, Canadian Hydrographic Service | ||
| 1.3 | Keynote Address: Hydrography in the United States: Responsibilities, Similarities, Differences, and Partnerships | CAPT Philip Renaud, CAPT Sam Debow, M.K. Miles, Steven Hall and LCDR Dan Mades | ||
| Opening of Exhibits | 1000-1030 | 2 | Multibeam and Side Scan Sonars I | CAPT Sam DeBow | 1030-1200 | Camellia Room A |
| 2.1 | Providing the Third Dimension: High-resolution Multibeam Sonar as a Tool for Archeological Investigations - an Example from the D-Day Beaches of Normandy | Larry Mayer, Brian Calder, James Schmidt and Chris Malzone | ||
| 2.2 | High-resolution multibeam mapping and habitat characterization of topographic features in the northwest Gulf of Mexico | George Schmahl, Emma Hickerson, Doug Weaver and James Gardner | ||
| 2.3 | Application of Side-Scan Sonar, Sub-bottom and echo-sounding techniques to study sediment deposition and erosion in estuaries: Results from the lower Delaware River and upper Delaware Bay | John Madsen and Christopher Sommerfield | ||
| 2.4 | Hydrographic Data Key Element in SS Jacob Luckenbach Oil Removal | Joanna Hawkins | ||
| Lunch | 1200-1330 | |||
| 3A | Tides and Vertical Datums I | Denis Hains | 1330-1500 | Camellia Room A |
| 3A.1 | National VDatum - The Implementation of a National Vertical Datum Transformation Database | Bruce Parker, Dennis Milbert, Kurt Hess, and Stephen Gill | ||
| 3A.2 | A Critical Need for Water Level and Datum Information in the Northern Gulf of Mexico | Kristen Tronvig, Stephen Gill, Gretchen Imahori, Joe Evjen, Charlie Henry and Dr. Roy Dokka | ||
| 3A.3 | Improvements to Water Level Reducers for Hydrographic Surveys in Hydrodynamically Complex Tidal Regimes | Gretchen Imahori, W. Michael Gibson and Kristen Tronvig | ||
| 3A.4 | New Developments in Tide Planning and Processing Capabilities at the Naval Oceanographic Office | Arthur Najjar | 3B | Multibeam and Side Scan Sonars II | RADM (ret) Chris Andreasen | 1330-1500 | Camellia Room B |
| 3B.1 | An Introduction to Auto Survey and Current Auto Survey Projects | Donald Brandon and Dr. Brian Bourgeois | ||
| 3B.2 | Parallel Software for Processing Hydrographic Data | Dr. M.J. Miller, Geary Layne, Dave Fabre and Dr. Krzysztof Sarnowski | ||
| 3B.3 | Project 500 – When Cubism met Hydrography | Paul Scibilia and Cliff Whatrup | ||
| Break | 1500-1530 | 4A | Tides and Vertical Datums II | Bruce Parker | 1530-1700 | Camellia Room A |
| 4A.1 | Vertical Datum Transformations for Kinematic-GPS Hydrographic Surveys | Kurt Hess, Dennis Milbert, Stephen K. Gill and Daniel Roman | ||
| 4A.2 | Hydrographic Surveying on a Tidal Datum with Kinematic GPS: NOS Case Study in Delaware Bay | Jack.Riley, Dennis Milbert and Gerald Mader | ||
| 4A.3 | Water Level Recovery with an RTK GPS-Equipped Buoy | Sunil Bisnath, David Dodd, David Wells, Stephan Howden and Denis Wiesenburg | ||
| 4A.4 | Sequential Tidal Prediction Using Artificial Neural Networks | Dr. Ahmed El-Rabbany, Mohamed El-Diasty and K. Raahemifar | 4B | Hydrographic Programs | CAPT Phil Renaud | 1530-1700 | Camellia Room B |
| 4B.1 | Mexican Hydrographic Office -Serving the Navy and Improving Intermodal Transportation | LCDR Rafael Ponce | ||
| 4B.2 | Integrated Coastal Zone - Data Research Project | Martin Whitfield and John Pepper | ||
| 4B.3 | The 'On Datum' Project | Doug Regular, Craig Zeller, Steve Grant and Nick Stuifbergen | ||
| 4B.4 | Hydrographic Learning 24/7 | Dave Monahan, Jimmy Chance, Peter Dare, Semme Dijkstra, Dave Dodd, Steven Howden, Joss Richer, Marcelo Santos, Dave Wells and Denis Wiesenburg | ||
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| 5 | Airborne Hydrography | Jeff Lillycrop | 0815-1000 | Camellia Room A |
| 5.1 | Shoreline Mapping from Airborne LIDAR in Shilshole Bay, Washington | Jason Woolard, Mike Aslaksen, John Longenecker, and Anders Ryerson | ||
| 5.2 | CHARTS: An Evolution in Airborne Lidar Hydrography | James Heslin, W. Jeff Lillycrop, and Robert Pope | ||
| 5.3 | Hydrographic Lidar Processing Moves into the Next Dimension | Karen Frances, Paul LaRocque, Lindsay Gee and Mark Paton | ||
| 5.4 | Use of SHOALS Data to Produce Spectrally-derived Depths in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii | Jennifer Wozencraft, Mark Lee, Grady Tuell, and William Philpot | ||
| 5.5 | A Technique for Generating Bottom Reflectance Images from SHOALS Data | Mark Lee and Grady Tuell | ||
| Break | 1000-1030 | |||
| 6 | Multibeam and Side Scan Sonars III | Barbara Reed | 1030-1200 | Camellia Room A |
| 6.1 | A Reassessment of Vessel Coordinate Systems: What is it that we are really aligning? | John Hughes Clarke | ||
| 6.2 | Backscatter Image Normalization by Best Estimated Grazing Angles | Tianhang Hou, Larry Mayer and Christian Moustier | ||
| 6.3 | Analysis of Multibeam Crosschecks Using Automated Methods | Susan Sebastian and Dave Wells | ||
| 6.4 | A Time/Effort Comparison of Automatic and Manual Bathymetric Processing in Real-Time Mode | Brian Calder and Shep Smith | ||
| Lunch | 1200-1330 | |||
| 7 | Data Management and Visualization I | Steve Hall | 1330-1500 | Camellia Room A |
| 7.1 | Working with the Geodatabase:Scalable GIS Solutions for the Hydrographic Community | Neal Millett and Simon Evans | ||
| 7.2 | Area Based Processing and Visualization for Efficient Seafloor Mapping | Mark Paton, Danny Neville, Brian Calder, Shep Smith, Barbara Reed, and Jan Depner | ||
| 7.3 | A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Integrated Hydrographic Data Management Solutions | Pierre Gareau, Jeffrey Stockhausen, Jennifer Strang and Herman Varma | ||
| 7.4 | Navigation Surface Creation and Use for Charting Example - Seacoast New Hampshire | LT Shepard Smith | ||
| Break | 1500-1530 | |||
| 8 | Data Management and Visualization II | Dr. S.E. Masry | 1530-1700 | Camellia Room A |
| 8.1 | Hydrographic Work Flow - From Planning to Products | Doug Cronin, Mel Broadus, Barbara Reed, Shannon Byrne, Walter Simmons and Lindsay Gee | ||
| 8.2 | Quality Assurance Initiatives in the Hydrography Department of the US Naval Oceanographic Office | Susan Sebastian | ||
| 8.3 | A Student Initiated Hydrographic Survey in a Riverine Environment, The Pearl River 2002 Field Project Experience | David Dodd , Stephan Howden, David Wells, Denis Wiesenburg and the Hydrographic Science Masters Degree Graduating Class of 2002 | ||
| 8.4 | Sediment Transport Mapping in a Complex Riverine Environment Using Multibeam Bathymetry | Jonathan Dasler, Eugene Revelas and Jason Creech | ||
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| 9A | Hydrographic Applications | Fred Ganjon | 0830 - 1000 | Camellia Room A |
| 9A.1 | The Role of Bathymetry Data in a Marine Cadastre: Lessons from the Proposed Musquash Marine Protected Area | Sam Ng'ang'a, Susan Nichols and David Monahan | ||
| 9A.2 | Methodology for an Analysis of Data Relevant to a Claim of Extended Continental Margin Under Law of the Sea Article 76 | Martin Jakobsson, Larry Mayer and Andrew Armstrong | ||
| 9A.3 | A Cost-Effective Approach for Data and Voice Transfer in Remote Locations | Thomas Newman, James Waddell, Jr., Tony Hussey and Jeffrey Bigelow | ||
| 9A.4 | A Rapid Deployment Multibeam/ Forward-Looking Sonar System | Al Rougeau | ||
| 9B | ECDIS - Electronic Charts I | CAPT Nicholas Perrigini | 0830-1000 | Camellia Room B |
| 9B.1 | Data conversion and S-57 IENC Production | Jeff Lower and John Conyon | ||
| 9B.2 | "ECDIS" On U.S. Inland Waterways?? | Anthony Niles | ||
| 9B.3 | Integration of Visual Bearings with ECDIS | RADM Chris Andreasen, NOAA ret. | ||
| 9B.4 | Joint USM-NAVOCEANO ECDIS Laboratory | Darrell Smith, Dr. Lee Alexander and Maxim van Norden | ||
| Break | 1000-1030 | |||
| 10A | Positioning Systems | Dr. David Wells | 1030-1200 | Camellia Room A |
| 10A.1 | Evaluation of Recent Developments in High-Precision GPS Correction Services | Sunil Bisnath, David Dodd, and David Wells | ||
| 10A.2 | Assessment of Performance of Ionospheric Delay -free GPS Carrier-Phase Kinematic Relative Positioning with Varying Baseline Lengths | Karen Cove, Marcelo Santos, Lloyd Huff, Ben Remondi, and David Wells | ||
| 10A.3 | New Generation Acoustic Positioning Systems | Scott Elson | ||
| 10B | ECDIS - Electronic Charts II | CAPT Fred Tettelbach | 1200-1330 | Camellia Room B |
| 10B.1 | Marine Information Objects (MIOs) and ECDIS: Concept and Practice | Dr. Lee Alexander | ||
| 10B.2 | Adding Oceanographic Marine Information Objects to the Electronic Chart Display and Information System | Kurt Nelson and Joseph J. Tamul, Jr. | ||
| 10B.3 | The Naval Oceanographic Office's Advance Toward Implementing Tactical Electronic Charting Products | Steven Harrison, Sheila Kosbab, Maxim van Norden, Darrell Smith and LT Kitch Kennedy, Jr. | ||
| 10B.4 | Demonstration of a Moving-Map System for Improved Lane Navigation of Amphibious Vehicles | Maura Lohrenz, Stephanie Myrick, Stephanie Edwards and Marlin Gendron | ||
| Lunch | 1200-1330 | |||
| 11 | ECDIS - Electronic Charts III | Dr. Lee Alexander | 1330-1500 | Camellia Room A |
| 11.1 | Towards the Next Generation of ECDIS | Bohdan Pillich | ||
| 11.2 | Fusing Information in a 3D Chart-of-the-Future Display | Roland Arsenault, Matthew Plumlee, Shep Smith, Colin Ware, Richard Brennan and Larry Mayer | ||
| 11.3 | Electronic Chart of the Future: The Hampton Roads Demonstration Project | Richard Brennan, Colin Ware, Lee Alexander, Andrew Armstrong, Larry Mayer, Lloyd Huff, Brian Calder, Shep Smith, Matt Plumlee, Roland Arsenault and Gerd Glang | ||
| 12 | Closing Session | Jerry Mills | 1500 - 1530 | Camellia Room A |