Development of S-121 for Maritime Limits and Boundaries

Jean-François Beaupré; Serge Lévesque; Ryan Ahola; Sébastien Durand; C. Douglas O’Brien; Jonathan Pritchard; Mark Alcock

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No. 28 (2022)

Development of S-121 for Maritime Limits and Boundaries

Jean-François Beaupré^▸^▾
Serge Lévesque^▸^▾
Ryan Ahola^▸^▾
Sébastien Durand^▸^▾
C. Douglas O’Brien^▸^▾
Jonathan Pritchard^▸^▾
Mark Alcock^▸^▾

Université Laval

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Jean-François Beaupré works as a Senior Surveyor for Natural Resources Canada, Sur-veyor General, Cadastral Survey Information. He participated in the IHO S-121 project team’s de-velopment activities and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) pilot project on Maritime Limits and Boundaries. In the recent years, he also acted as a technical expert for different projects for the Standard Council of Canada (SCC), International Standard Organization (ISO), International Federation of Surveyor (FIG), and United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM). He holds a B.Sc. in Geomatics from Université Laval, Canada and a M.Sc. in Land administration from ITC, Netherlands.

Laval University

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Serge Lévesque joined the Canadian Hydrographic Service in 2011 as part of the team re-sponsible for Canada’s Maritime Limits and Boundaries (MLB) and nautical geodesy. He now de-velops and implements standards supporting Canada’s Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI). He participated in the IHO S-121 project team’s development activities and the OGC pilot project on MLB where S-121 was further developed. He holds a B.Sc. in Geological Engineering from Laval University, Québec and a M.Sc. in Oceanography from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Serge held the CARIS LOTS (Law Of The Sea software) product manager position for five years.

Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation

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Ryan Ahola is an Environmental Scientist with Canada’s national mapping agency: Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan) Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation. He acts as the technical liaison between NRCan and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), helping to co-ordinate the many activities NRCan undertakes with OGC as a Strategic Member. He also fulfills additional roles to help advance Canada’s Geospatial Data Infrastructure, from supporting Cana-da’s participation at the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management to driving the use of microservices to modernize NRCan’s geospatial information technology systems. Ryan also has a background in satellite imagery analysis.

Natural Resource Canada

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Sébastien Durand works for Natural Resource Canada, Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, an organization supporting Canada Open directive. His contributions to the Maritime Limits and Boundaries S121 started many years ago as technical advisor in the Canadi-an Hydrographic Services, within Fisheries and Oceans Canada. He contributed to the IHO-S121 project team as vice-chair, integrating vision and contributions made by all members of this great team of experts. He bares the conviction that this standard enables the integration of the admin-istration context within geomatics, which represents an opportunity to leverage space and time to enhance decision making.

Carleton University

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C. Douglas O’Brien, President of IDON Technologies Inc., has extensive experience with respect to Information Technology with emphasis on the handling of spatial data in a standards environment. He has served as International Convenor of ISO TC211 Geographic Information Working Group 6 on Imagery for 15 years and has been involved in all aspects of information technology standardization for over 40 years. The Canadian Government has twice honored Mr. O'Brien with the Public Service Merit Award, he was awarded the Engineering Medal of the Asso-ciation of Professional Engineers of the Province of Ontario for Research and Development and was co-recipient of the Touche-Ross New Perspectives Award. Douglas O'Brien was born in Ot-tawa Canada and received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Carleton University in Ottawa Canada.

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Jonathan Pritchard has over twenty years experience in Hydrography and more than thirty years in the technology industries. He works for IIC Technologies in the United Kingdom where he is the senior technical manager. Jonathan is an active contributor and active participant in many of the leading IHO working groups developing technical standards for marine geospatial phenomena. He is a former IHO working group chair, a current co-chair of the ENC conversion subgroup and also co-chair of the OGC's Marine Domain Working Group.

University of Canberra

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Mark Alcock is the Principal Advisor for Georegulation and Law of the Sea at Geoscience Australia, where he leads Australia's offshore boundary program. He has a particular interest in the digital transformation of land administration and sound management of the oceans for the public good. He has chaired the S-121 project team at the International Hydrographic organisa-tion since its inception. He has provided assistance on management of the marine space to more than 20 countries. He has a BSc in Geology from the University of Canberra and Graduate Diplo-ma in Legal Studies from the Australian National University.

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Soumise: février 17, 2023
Publié-e: 2022-11-30

Résumé

La Convention des Nations Unies sur le droit de la mer (CNUDM) établit des direc-tives pour la gestion des informations sur les limites et les frontières maritimes des Etats côtiers. Pour un dépôt cohérent des limites et des frontières maritimes en ver-tu de la CNUDM, une approche fondée sur des normes est nécessaire. Cet article décrit le développement de cette approche par le biais de la norme S-121 de l’OHI. Les exigences de la S-121 de l’OHI sont décrites, suivies de la méthodologie d’éla-boration du modèle de données. Les résultats décrivent la structure du modèle de données et montrent comment la S-121 de l’OHI répond aux exigences de la CNUDM. La S-121 de l’OHI représente une avancée importante pour la gestion co-hérente des données sur les limites et les frontières des Etats côtiers et aidera les Etats à s’acquitter de leurs obligations au titre de la CNUDM.

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Droit de la mer
frontière
norme
Organisation hydrographique internationale (OHI
Géoréglementation

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Beaupré, J.-F., Lévesque, S., Ahola, R., Durand, S., O’Brien, C. D., Pritchard, J., & Alcock, M. (2022). Development of S-121 for Maritime Limits and Boundaries. The International Hydrographic Review, (28), 94–107. Consulté à l’adresse https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ihr/article/view/33349

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