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COASTCHART
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Coastline mapping service

Development of an EO information system for the provision of coastline products in support to marine charting, and demonstration on the West African Coast from Senegal to Congo(6,000 km of coastline).
Project Reference

Name

COASTCHART

Title
Coastline mapping service

Programme
DUE (Data User Element of the Earth Observation Envelope Programme)

Theme
Marine & Coastal zones

Cost
500 - 800 K

Type
Small Scale Service Demonstration

Application
Cartography: Marine

Status
Completed in 2006

Satellites
ENVISAT, LANDSAT 5, LANDSAT 7, SPOT 5

Sensors
ASAR, ETM, HRG, HRS, TM
 
Project Description

Web Site
http://www.logicacmg.com/coastchart/index.aspx.html

Objectives
The objective of the COASTCHART project is first to specify, design, develop and install at user premises an information system for the provision of coastline restitution products (at scales 1:50,000 and 1:15,000) that will support the work of hydrographic organisations in their activities related to the cartographic actualisation of marine charts, and second to demonstrate and qualify the COASTCHART information system by operating the system on the entire West African Coast from Senegal to Congo (6,000 km of coastline).

The following coastal products will be generated, validated, qualified and delivered during the COASTCHART project:

  1. High Resolution Coastline Restitution Products (at 1:50,000 scale), in paper maps and digital formats, for the overall West African coast composed of the following 15 countries: Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Republic of the Congo;
  2. Very High Resolution Coastline Restitution Product (at 1:15,000 scale), in paper maps and digital formats, for 12 key coastal areas (typically harbour infrastructures, maritime facilities and river approaches);
The Coastline Restitution product will contain multi-date geo-referenced vector objects that characterise the coastline. Each coastline object will be precisely geo-referenced and will have some thematic attributes associated that identify the type of coastlines, following the semantics defined in the S-57 standard available from the International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO).

The COASTCHART products aim at supporting the hydrographic offices in the production of nautical documents. The generation of these marine charts is the responsibility of the hydrographic offices and is therefore beyond the scope of the COASTCHART project. The project will only provide processed and interpreted data (Coastline Vector Restitution) needed by the hydrographic cartographers.


Results

UNIVERSITE DE MARNE LA VALLEE (UML) - Thesis by Herve Trebossen
Apport des images RADAR à Synthèse d’Ouverture à la cartographie marine
Open file

COASTCHART Phase 1 Final Report Open file

ASAR images geometric capabilities for coastal mapping; framework of ESA DUE Coastchart project; examples of coastal zones of Nigeria and Gabon, Trebossen, H.; Paganini, M.; Rosich , B., ENVISAT Symposium Proceedings, Montreux, Switzerland, 23-27 April 2007. Open file
 
Project Consortium

Companies
Logica Ltd : Logica Ltd, United Kingdom (Prime contractor)
BOOST : BOOST Technologies, France (Subcontractor)
BRGM : Bureau of Geological and Mining Research, France (Subcontractor)
PCI : PCI Geomatics, Canada (Subcontractor)
RSAC : Remote Sensing Applications Consultants Ltd., United Kingdom (Subcontractor)
UCL : University College London, Department of Geomatic Engineering , United Kingdom (Subcontractor)
UoP SEOES : University of Plymouth, School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Sciences , United Kingdom (Subcontractor)
 
User Partnership

Users
IHPT : Portuguese Hydrographic Institute, Portugal
SHOM : French Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service, France
UKHO : United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, United Kingdom
 
Contact Points

Project Manager
Chetan Pradhan
Logica Ltd
250 Brook Drive,
Green Park,
Reading, RG2 6UA
United Kingdom
Tel:+44 20 7637 9111
Fax:+44 20 7468 7006
Email: hetan.Pradhan@logica.com

Technical Officer
Marc Paganini
European Space Agency - ESRIN D/EOP-SEP
via Galileo Galilei
I-00046 Frascati (RM)
ITALY
Tel: +39 06-941.80563
Fax: +39 06-941.80552
Email: marc.paganini@esa.int