Integrating mapping, innovation, and societal needs for sustainable ocean and resource management.

Archie Donovan, Geological Survey of Ireland (on behalf of the INFOMAR team)

INFOMAR Co-Programme Managed with Marine Institute

If we don’t have the right information, we can’t make the right decisions!

How do we map the seabed?

The Irish Model:INFOMAR ’06-‘25

Galway Bay

Mannin Bay

Killary Harbour

Achill Sound

Blacksod Bay

Broadhaven BaySligo Bay

Lough SwillyLough Foyle

Carlingford

Boyne Estuary

Drogheda

Dublin Bay

Wexford

Bannow BayDungarvan

Waterford

CorkKinsale

Dunmanus Bantry Bay

Dingle Bay

Tralee BayShannon Estuary

Donegal Bay

Mulroy

Youghal

INFOMAR Partnership between MI & GSI

INtegrated Mapping FOr the Sustainable Development of Ireland’s MARine Resource

PHASE 1:•2006 – 2015 26 Bays / 3 P. AreasPHASE 2:•2016 – 2025 Remaining Areas

€4m per annum (currently €3m)

Ireland’s Role / Marine Mapping / Adding Value

PROGRAMME AREAS

1. Data Acquisition, Management & Interpretation• Hydrographic Data Acquisition (UKHO / SOLAS)• Baseline Surveys for Licensable Activities (e.g. cables)• Geophysical, Habitat, Engineering Surveys

2. Data Exchange & Integration• Data Provision - For Who / What Format

3. Value Added Exploitation• Annual Research Call (c. 40 x 30K Projects to date)• Dublin Business Innovation Centre• Decision Support Tool Development (e.g. licensing)• Value Added Surveys

Ireland’s Role / Marine Mapping / Adding Value

What Does INFOMAR Provide?

WWW.INFOMAR.IE

ACCESS PRODUCTS BY:

• Bay• Chart• Type

e.g. Google Earth Files

Charts / MapsData (Raw / Processed)

• Google Earth• Fledermaus DTM’s• ArcMap Grids

ReportsPublications

Ireland’s Role / Marine Mapping / Adding Value

DATA ACCESS PORTALS

DATA ARE FREE – FULL OPEN ACCESS

INTERACTIVE WEB DATA DELIVERY SYSTEM• Web Data Delivery / INTREPID GIS

IMAGE WEB MAPPING VIEWER• Display raster datasets (bathymetry etc.)

WEB MAP SERVICES• Access INFOMAR GIS directly through desktop

GIS application / open source viewers• Coarse/Fine bathymetry grids

Ireland’s Marine Atlas• Access data on infrastructure, pressures,

activity

Licensing Decision Support Tools

Ireland’s Role / Marine Mapping / Adding Value

Have a Plan & a Brand

Irish National Seabed Survey• 1999 – 2005, 32m

INFOMAR• 2006 – 2026 (€80m)• GSI & MI Partnership• Real Map of Ireland

INFOMAR Key Action (No. 23)“Enabler of Research, Knowledge, Technology & Innovation”

Deliver Value Added Strategy

Double the value of our ocean wealth to 2.4% of GDP by 2030

Increase the turnover from our ocean economy to exceed €6.4bn by 2020

Ireland’s Role / Marine Mapping / Adding Value

Use Best & Latest TechnologyIreland’s Role / Marine Mapping / Adding Value

•RMS Leinster

•Rask

•UC-42

•Information available online

•HMS Guide Me II

•SS Hare

•Sir Charles Napier

•Shipwrecks mapped in Irish Waters

•RMS Lusitania

•SS Premier

•SS Folia

•HMS Vanguard

•SS W.M. Barkley

•SS Ydun

•SS Bandon

•UC-42

Available at: http://www.gsi.ie/gsishop /

Ireland’s Role / Marine Mapping / Adding ValueExpanding Products

Added Value / Technology

SOME OUTPUTS:•Multibeam AutoPilot: survey efficiency

•Web Portals: download & upload

•3D Simulations: outreach / prototype testing

•Lander Sensor Integration: data & power efficiency

•Maps to Mobiles: mobile data access

•Modelling: site selection

•Fisheries Nav. Software: efficiency / reduce gear loss•Outreach, Education, e-Learning

WHAT WE DO:• Infrastructure Provider• Researcher & Research Funder & Mentor• Technology Developer• Business Development• Gov, Industry & Research Advisor• Educator

OBJECTIVE :Add Value to INFOMAR, Support Sustainable Development, Create Jobs & Wealth

Ireland’s Role / Marine Mapping / Adding Value

•INFOMAR Marine Mapping Study•Options Appraisal – July 2008

•But is it really worth it?

•Pricewaterhouse Coopers

Cost of Completion

of Mapping (08 -26) €000

Value of Mapping

NPV

€000

Benefit to

Cost Ratio

BCR

93,855 454,266 4.41

• Estimated return on project is 4 to 6 times cost• Led to decision in 2008 to continue to 2013• World Wide benchmark for State Marine Mapping• Now copied in Norway, UK, France, Germany......

• Second External Review underway – Report June 2013

• Marine mapping -Key Enabler of Blue Growth

NPV and Benefit Cost Ratios

Findings & Recommendations

Summary of Findings & Recommendations :

PwC was commissioned to undertake an independent mid-term evaluation of the INFOMAR programme in 2013.

Key Findings ( summarised):• strategy clear on broad programme, lacking annual d etail to support evaluation;• strong rationale exists for continued public fundin g of INFOMAR;• activities would not progress at pace /quality with out public funding;• implementation is in a cost-efficient manner • major quantified targets attained within a signific antly reduced budget• effective in attaining the major objectives of the programme:

– the acquisition, processing, development and dissemination of survey data and related products; the attraction of international project funding; the promotion of INFOMAR-related research activities; and the provision of technical advisory services to a variety of public and private sector organisations supporting them in regulatory compliance;

• effective development of a critical mass of Irish m arine surveying expertise (>100);• economic benefits more muted than anticipated in ’0 8 - economic circumstances.

Download: www.infomar.ie/publications

Findings & Recommendations

Key Recommendations:• Future strategies designed to;

– support mid- and end-term evaluations– focus on clear statements of targeted annual activity– incorporate quantified indicators of inputs, outputs and impacts ;

• Develop performance management system to incorporate quantified targets of inputs, outputs and impacts (e.g. operational statistics);

• Appoint business development /stakeholder engagement resource (full / part-time)

• Fast-track the integration of data and its development into products ;20

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Dublin Business Innovation Centre

NPV and Benefit Cost Ratios

Mark McCarville Business Consultant with

Dublin Business Innovation Centre (DBIC)

INFOMAR have now a business support contract design ed to identify

• Additional potential business development

• Commercial opportunities and initiatives

Work in this contract began on August 27 th 2013 and DBIC will work with INFOMARfor 12 months on the project goals

•http://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/

•http://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/bathymetry/

•More Web Based - Information Exchange

• INFOMAR/INSS DTM (0.25 arc–minute resolution) available to view• and download from the EMODnet Portal.

• All the data and products are based on the continuous average depth.

• Gaps in the EMODnet DTM layer have been filled with the GEBCO data.

•EMODnet-Hydrography

•DTM Model

•Objective: Integrate and harmonise data for Europea n Seas

EMODnet-Hydrography

(Ireland, France & Italy chosen for test)

•Coastal DTM will extend up to a least Highest Astronomical Tide (HAT) and out to 12nm offshore

•OLEX - Information Integration

•Data integrated into Olex navigational software

•ESRI - Information Integration

•Data integrated into ESRI Ocean Basemap data

Why we mapNo Map = No PLAN

“If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail!”Roy Keane, Saipan, 2002

•Navigation failures

•Environmental damage

Why?Marine Safety/Charting

•A steep outcrop of rock rising to a chart depth of •12.2 metres in surrounding water depths of •30 to 40 metres (charted as >30m)

Why? Environmental Protection

•Deepwater Atlas produced with UCC

•INSS Inventory of features including •mounds & reefs

•Bathymetry used in Modelling Ocean •currents/ Pollution response

•Used to designate Offshore SACs

Why? Marine Heritage- Shipwrecks

Burtonport Donegal, 2011 - 2013 Collaboration with Underwater Archaeology Unit Possible Armada age wreck

Why? Marine Tourism - Shipwrecks

Diving on the Justica, Photo by Barry McGill, a Donegal diver

Why? Fishing/Aquaculture

•Accurate bathymetry helps modelling •and locating of fish farms – HOT TOPIC!•Collaboration with BIM

Ocean Energy – Wind & Wave

Seabed mapping vital to location of Ocean Energy devices -wave & wind & Tidal

Research/ Added Value

• Researchers on project team•• Fund Research Projects/SMEs• c.20% of budget

• Provide equipment• Vibrocore, sparker, magnetics, grabs

• Ship Time & advice/knowledge centre• National Research Vessels & Survey staff

• International collaboratione.g OGS Aug 09 Celtic Sea

• VENTure MidAtlantic 2011

Value Added Products (VAPs)

•iPhone test App running directly from GSI rest services using Java script (Developer, Shane Carey, Tellus)

Where To Next?

•Decision Support-Light Portal & INFOMAR Apps -Expand License Support Tools

•Outreach / Education-Training (Vessel, Engineering, Surveying, Data)- Schools Project Toolboxes-Citizen science (Crowd Sourcing)

•Research-SFI: Earth & Ocean Observation Cluster-European Ocean Obs & Predictive Capacity

(Horizon 2020)

-4D Data Visualisation & Analysis-Seamless Land to Sea Mapping-Acoustics Analytics / Feature Extraction

•Operations-Capital for vessel survey system upgrades-Multidisciplinary solution

Progress on E ducation & Outreach Development (EODP)

• RFT82817 - RFT_2014_01_EODP_Development – RFT for provision of Information Technology Consultancy Services to develop an INFOMAR Educational Outreach Development Programme (EODP)

• Tender closed 30 th April 2014

Survey vessels systems upgrade

EM 3002d

RESON 7101

EM 2040

R2SONIC 2022

Now

Next!

Potential Project: Real Map of the Atlantic

Galway Statement on Atlantic Ocean CooperationEU, USA & Canada – Marine Research collaboration, Atlantic & Arctic