Development of the IHO Universal Hydrographic Data Model

AS PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF E-NAVIGATION STRATEGY e-Navigation is the future, digital concept for the maritime sector, being developed under the auspices of the United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) to bring about increased safety and security in commercial shipping through better organisation of data on ships and onshore, and better data exchange and communication between the two. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is involved in the development of the e-Navigation concept to ensure that any underpinning hydrographic standards, products or services are in place from the beginning. In the paper the Author, a member of the IMO Expert Group on e-Navigation, established in 2006, presents recent issues related to the development of e-Navigation – the concept of the IHO Universal Hydrographic Data Model.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNIVERSAL HYDROGRAPHIC DATA MODEL
AS PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF E-NAVIGATION STRATEGY e-Navigation is a future digital concept for the maritime sector, developed under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), an agency of the United Nations, in order to increase the safety and security of commercial shipping through better organization of data on ships and on land, and better data exchange and communication in the ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore, shore-to-ship, and shore-to-shore relationship. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) has been involved in the development of the e-Navigation concept from the very beginning to ensure that any hydrographic standards, products, and services created are consistent with this concept. In the paper, the Author, a member of the IMO Expert Group on e-Navigation established in 2006, presents the latest arrangements regarding the e-Navigation concept – the notion of a universal hydrographic data model.
1. INTRODUCTION
The advantage of the latest technical development in the field of automation, electronics, telecommunications, informatics, telematics, geomatics and global position fixing techniques, achievement in data storing, processing, analysing, transferring and visualisation should be taken into account and applied to the maritime technology. In the (…)

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