IHO S121 Standards on Maritime Limits and Boundaries

IHO S-121 Standards on Maritime Limits and Boundaries Vision Sébastien Durand Canadian Hydrographic Services 1 st Project Team Meeting, October 10 -14 th 2016 New York , US

Maritime Limits and Boundaries Conceptually, Maritime Limits and Boundaries (MLBs) are the constructs used to delineate maritime zones and forms the legal foundation of the marine domain. UNCLOS MLBs (EEZ) http: //www. marineregions. org/eezmethodology. php

S-121 vision The S-121 will take a practical step toward achieving the vision of S-100 as it was established: to expend the user base and better accommodate the requirements of our digital world. The S-121 will be designed to providing a flexible management and communication solution that can support any type of MLBs for the broadest range of users.

S-121 Purposes 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Describe MLBs in terms of what they are, what they embody and what they are used for. Allow States to communicate official digital representations of their maritime limits and boundaries. Respect the provisions of UNCLOS and support flexible implementation Provide an expandable framework able to support other maritime delimitation requirements Be an extension of S-100 supporting the administration of the marine domain.

S-121 Structure § § An administration structure cannot be stored in the geospatial object attributes. Administrative information needs to be managed at the object level with attributes of their own. Enabling independent management of the administrative information related to MLBs geospatial components facilitating update, management, sourcing and versioning. Such a structure would go beyond cartographic information system.

Requirements Support § Description of the administrative information § Support versioning and sourcing § Description of simple and complex situations § Simple, usable and expendable implementations

IHO S-121 Standards on Maritime Limits and Boundaries Use Cases Sébastien Durand Canadian Hydrographic Services 1 st Project Team Meeting, October 10 -14 th 2016 New York , US

Use cases § Data custodians • Maintain, update and control § Official Releases • Officialise, version, distribution § Legal & Court Support • Readable, targeted information, historical backtracking, source validation § Navigation • Compatibility with S-57 and S-101 products

Data custodians Maintain, update and control quality § Usage: Data content: § Data format: All that can be defined and be worked on enclosed Zones, Outer limits, constitutive component, Limit, Boundaries, Points § § § Full data set, including, data sources, construction lines, contributing points. Exchange Format: GIS geodatabase Example: Internal database, data backup, schema exchange.

Data custodian : Example § § Canada Zones Australia AMSIS https: //www. acls-aatc. ca/files/english/books/5. 9 bluea. jpg

Official Releases § Usage: § Data content: Approved metadata and data. Restricted or public versions depicting a Distribute official version of the State views where the provided files do not require interpretation or edition to be viewed and used. Support production and the creation of other data products. mixture of MLBs representation using either or limited to Zone, Limit or Point approach. At high resolution or low resolution densification versions. § Data format: One format of interest is the line format, for which each line segment is attributed for it contribution to any MLB objects listed in column, using a Boolean value. § § Exchange Format: GDB, Shapefile, XML, KMZ, geojson…, Example: DOALOS Submissions, Official MLB State version.

Official Releases: Example § § Canada Outer limits image Canada Boolean Line file

Legal & Court Support § Usage: § Data content: Extraction of the Data Custodian Dataset for a specific date and time Provide readable information to the lawyers, judges and other actors needing official textual representation of the MLBs in a backward compatible enabling information to be integrated back into a GIS system. and location describing officially releases, as well as all other supporting information if need be that can be used to verify the correctness of the data in a court of law. § § § Data format: XML… XSLT Exchange Format: Example: Support infringement court case, support the creation of the official MLBs documents.

Legal & Court Support : Example § § XML Document. Canada Boolean Line file

Navigation Usage The S-121 standard must be compatible with S-101 (ENC Product Specification) to allow for the depiction of the MLB information to be displayed in ENCs.

Other Specific Potential Usages S-121 Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI) Petrolium Leases Fisheries Zones Marine Consevation Area Regions http: //callforbids. cnsopb. ns. ca/2014/01/ www. inter. dfompo. gc. ca/folios/00252/images/lg_img 014. jp g http: //www. pc. gc. ca/eng/docs/pc/rpts/edapp-sopha 2001/sec 5/par 4. aspx