This page contains the technical papers presented at the U.S. Hydro 2005 Conference.  The papers are in Portable Document Format (.pdf).  To view a paper, click on the title link. .
 

Quick Jumps:	Date:	Session:
	Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31	1. Conference Opening Session 2. New Directions: Hydrography and Ocean Mapping 3. Hydrography and Charting 4. Hydrographic Operations 5. Data Management 6. GPS Applications 7. Airborne Hydrography 8. Seafloor Mapping: Multibeam and Side Scan 9. Vertical Control and Water Levels 10. International Partnerships 11. Electronic Navigational Chart Activities 12. Electronic Chart of the Future 13. Closing Session Alternates

Tuesday, March 29
1. Conference Opening Session	Randle Ballroom AB	8:45 am - 10:00 am
Welcome: Andrew Armstrong, President THSOA Opening Remarks Rear Admiral Sam DeBow, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Rear Admiral Timothy McGee, U.S. Navy; Mr. Moody K. Miles, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Dr. Savithri Narayanan, Canadian Hydrographic Service Keynote Address: Hydrography - the Common Denominator of all Maritime Enterprise Paul Hornsby, President, International Federation of Hydrographic Societies Return To Top
2. New Directions: Hydrography and Ocean Mapping	Randle Ballroom AB	10:30 am – 11:55 am
Rapid Environmental Assessment - Emerging Requirements for Military Hydrography Lieutenant Commander Peter Johnson, Australian Hydrographic Service Mapping Fisheries Habitats by Enhanced Multibeam Acoustic Data in Alaska Jerry Wilson, Bill Gilmour, Fugro Pelagos, Inc.; Dr. Gary Greene, Moss Landing Marine Lab New Views of the U.S. Continental Margins James V. Gardner, Larry A. Mayer, Andrew Armstrong, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping – Joint Hydrographic Center, UNH Status Report on the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise and CHARTS First Year of Operations (Abstract Only) Bob Pope, US Navy; Jeff Lillycrop, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Return To Top
3. Hydrography and Charting	Randle Ballroom AB	1:15 pm – 2:45 pm
The NOAA Time Charter Project Mark T. Lathrop, OCS/NOS/NOAA, Walter Simmons, Rebecca Quintal, Gary Parker, Pam Clark, Rod Evans, Science Applications International Corporation, Marine Science and Technology; Dan Stabbert, Ocean Services, LLC Coral Reef -Electronic Chart Initiative: Protecting Corals, Saving Ships Dr. Lee Alexander, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping – Joint Hydrographic Center, UNH; Kathryn L. Ries, OCS/NOS/NOAA The Civil Hydrography Programme -Changing the Mould Cliff Whatrup, Brian Davidson, Gardline Hydro, UK; and Dave Mann, Gardline Geosurvey Ltd, UK A Quality Assurance Program for Utilizing Outside Source Hydrographic Data to Update NOAA's Nautical Charts Lieutenant Edward J. Van Den Ameele, OCS/NOS/NOAA Return To Top
4. Hydrographic Operations	Randle Ballroom AB	3:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Hydrographic Survey of the Yellowstone River in Dawson, Yellowstone and Stillwater Counties, Montana Chris Ransome, CRA Inc. Fusing GIS and Hydrography for Search and Recovery Operations: Two Case Studies Jason Creech, Jon Dasler, Gina Peery, David Evans and Associates, Inc. Response Team Efforts during the 2004 Hurricane Season LCDR Rick Fletcher, OCS/NOS/NOAA Investigation of Bottom Fishing Impacts on Benthic Structure using Multibeam Sonar, Sidescan Sonar and Video Mashkoor A. Malik, Larry A. Mayer, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping – Joint Hydrographic Center, UNH Hydrographic Mapping by Combined Operations using Bathymetric LIDAR and Multibeam Echosounder in Alaska Dean Moyles, Andy Orthmann, Carol Lockhart, Jana DaSilva Lage, Fugro Pelagos, Inc. Return To Top
Wednesday, March 30
5. Data Management	Randle Ballroom AB	8:15 am - 10:00 am
Automated Multibeam Crosscheck Analysis in an Operation Environment Susan Sebastian and Tony D. Taylor, Naval Oceanographic Office Multibeam Swath Consistency Detection and Downhill Filtering from Alaska to Hawaii Brian Calder, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping – Joint Hydrographic Center, UNH The Navigation Surface and Hydrographic System Uncertainty at NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey Jeff Ferguson and Shyla Allen, OCS/NOS/NOAA The Open Navigation Surface Project Brian Calder, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping – Joint Hydrographic Center, UNH; LCDR Richard T. Brennan, Barry Gallagher, OCS/NOS/NOAA; Shannon Byrne, James D. Case, SAIC, Marine Science and Technology; David Fabre, R. Wade Ladner, Naval Oceanographic Office; Bill Lamey, CARIS Ltd.; Friedhelm Moggert, Seven C’s AG & Co.; Mark Paton, IVS3D Ltd., and The Open Navigation Surface Working Group XML Encapsulation of Navigation Typography John Tucker and John Nyberg, OCS/NOS/NOAA Return To Top
6. GPS Applications	Randle Ballroom AB	10:30 am – 11:55 am
Hydrographic Surveying on the Ellipsoid with Inertially-Aided RTK Peter Canter and Louis Lalumiere, Applanix Corp. Hydrographic Surveys to IHO Standards without Shore Stations Using The Real-Time GIPSY (RTG) Global Positioning System (GPS) Maxim F. van Norden, Elliot N. Arroyo-Suarez, Arthur S. Najjar, Naval Oceanographic Office C-Nav Positional Reliability in a High Blockage and Multipath Environment Liwen Wang, John Roscoe-Hudson, Art Kleiner, James Chance, C&C Technologies Inc. Analysis of the Utility of NOAA-Generated Tropospheric Refraction Corrections for the Next Generation Nationwide DGPS Service David Dodd and Sunil Bisnath, University of Southern Mississippi/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Return To Top
7. Airborne Hydrography	Randle Ballroom AB	1:15 pm – 2:45 pm
Adding Hyperspectral to CHARTS: Early Results Grady Tuell, Joong Yong Park, Jennifer Aitken, Vinod Ramnath, Viktor Feygels, Optech International Regional Coastal Mapping (Abstract Only) Eddie Culpepper and Eddie Wiggins, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, JALBTCX Meeting Hydrographic Charting Specifications with the Shoals-1000T Airborne LIDAR Bathymeter Carol Lockhart, Dushan Arumugam, David Millar, Fugro Pelagos, Inc. Hydrographic LIDAR Survey - Experiences from Long Island Sound Mark Sinclair, Tenix LADS Inc Return To Top
8. Seafloor Mapping: Multibeam and Side Scan	Randle Ballroom AB	3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
High Resolution Bathymetric Sidescan Sonar Weiqing Zhu, and Xiaodong Liu, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Changle Fang, and Wen Xu, RD Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd Meeting Challenges of the IHO and LINZ Special Order Object Detection Requirements Erik Hammerstad, Kongsberg Maritime Geocoder: An Efficient Backscatter Map Constructor Luciano Fonseca and Brian Calder, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping – Joint Hydrographic Center, UNH Efficacy of an Interferometric Sonar Hydrographic Surveying: Do Interferometers warrant an in depth examination? Caleb Gostnell, OCS/NOS/NOAA Return To Top
Thursday, March 31
9. Vertical Control and Water Levels	Randle Ballroom AB	8:15 am - 10:00 am
Vertical Control in a Tidally Influenced Complex River System with a Fixed Low Water Datum Allison Stolz, Craig Martin, Cary Wong, CO-OPS/NOS/NOAA TCARI The Design of the Uncertainty Model for the Tidal Constituent and Residual Interpolation (TCARI) Method for Tidal Correction of Bathymetric Data LT Richard T. Brennan, OCS/NOS/NOAA - Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping – Joint Hydrographic Center, UNH; Dr. Lloyd Huff, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping – Joint Hydrographic Center, UNH; Kurt Hess, Steve Gill, NOS/NOAA Implementation of TCARI into NOS Hydrographic Survey Operations Monica Cisternelli and Stephen Gill, C0-0PS/NOS/NOAA Development of a National VDatum, and its Application to Sea Level Rise in North Carolina Edward Myers, Adeline Wong, Kurt Hess, Stephen White, Emily Spargo, Jesse Feyen, Zhizhang Yang, Phil Richardson, Carol Auer, Jon Sellars, Jason Woolard, Daniel Roman, Stephen Gill, Chris Zervas, and Kristen Tronvig, NOS/NOAA MLLW and the NAD83 Ellipsoid: An Investigation of Local Offsets and Trends Using PPK and Gauge Derived Water Surfaces Doug Lockhart, Andy Orthmann, Fugro Pelagos, Inc. A Stable Vertical Reference for Bathymetric Surveying and Tidal Analysis in the High Arctic John E. Hughes Clarke, Peter Dare, Jonathan Beaudoin, Dept. Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, University of New Brunswick; Jason Bartlett, Canadian Hydrographic Service Return To Top
10. International Partnerships	Randle Ballroom AB	10:30 am – 11:55 am
United States and Mexico Cooperative Hydrographic Survey and Charting Projects Lieutenant Commander Donald W. Haines, Ms. Kathryn Ries, OSC/NOS/NOAA Multi-dimensional, Multi-national, Multi-faceted Hydrographic Training; the Nippon Foundation GEBCO Training Program at the University of New Hampshire Clive Angwenyi, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute; Srinivas Karlapati, National Institute of Oceanography, India; Dave Monahan, University of New Hampshire; Hugo Montoro, Dirección de Hidrografía y Navegación de la Marina de Guerra del Perú; Taisei Morishita , Japan Coast Guard; Abubakar Abdullahi Mustapha, Nigerian Navy Hydrographic Office; Walter Reynoso Peralta, Hydrography Naval Service, Argentina; Shereen Sharma, University of the South Pacific, Fiji A Hydrographic Society in West-Africa Lt Cdr Ayo Olugbode (NN), University of Plymouth, UK; Lt Cdr Abubakar Mustapha (NN), Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping – Joint Hydrographic Center, UNH Inland ENC Development and Standardization Anthony R. Niles, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Dr. Lee Alexander, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping – Joint Hydrographic Center, UNH; Ralph A. Scheid, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Return To Top
11. Electronic Navigational Chart Activities	Randle Ballroom AB	1:15 pm – 3:00 pm
Accuracy of Aids to Navigation on NOAA’s ENCs Richard Sillcox and Tara Wallace, OCS/NOS/NOAA Validation of the Electronic Navigational Chart Mike Espey, NGS/NOS/NOAA; LCDR Rick Fletcher, Lyn Preston, OCS/NOS/NOAA Creating a GIS from NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts Matthew Austin, OCS/NOS/NOAA Coastal Channel Data: Cooperative Production of a NOAA/USACE Data Framework Chris Libeau, OCS/NOS/NOAA; Duane Morrison, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Highest Quality Throughout all ENC Product Stages – Ensuring Highest Possible Quality from the Chart to Exchange Sets John K. Klippen, HydroService AS Return To Top
12. Electronic Chart of the Future	Randle Ballroom AB	3:15 pm – 4:20 pm
The Next Edition of IHO S-57 (Edition 4): Much more than ENCs Dr. Lee Alexander, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping – Joint Hydrographic Center, UNH; Michael Brown, OCS/NOS/NOAA; Barry Greenslade, UK Hydrographic Office Introducing bathymetric ENCs on the example of the Port of Atlantis Bohdan Pillich and Friedhelm Moggert, SevenCs AG & Co. KG Panoramic Images for Situational Awareness in a 3D Chart-of-the-Future Display Matthew Plumlee, Colin Ware, Roland Arsenault, Lt. Richard Brennan, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping – Joint Hydrographic Center, UNH Return To Top
13. Closing Session	Randle Ballroom AB	4:20 pm – 4:30 pm
Moderator: Andrew Armstrong, President THSOA Return To Top
Alternates
Multibeam Processing - The End to Manual Editing? (Abstract Only) Duncan Mallace, NetSurvey; Lindsey Gee, IVS3D Benefits of Using High Grade True INS for Hydrography A. Chapelon, E. Kammerer, iXSsea SAS Expanding the Use of Navigation Tools and Products for Coastal Resource Management David Scharff, Kristen A. Tronvig, NOS/NOAA Return To Top
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