Chartworx Holland to Support Dutch Government
The Dutch Waddenzee has had a protected status in the Netherlands since 1980. It is a Ramsar site (as are the German and the Danish Waddenzee) and has been designated – according to the EC Bird Directive 1979 and the EC Habitat Directive 1992 – as a Special Protection Area (SPA). The Ramsar Convention 1971 is a worldwide treaty for the conservation of wetlands.
The Service Centre of the official governmental body with the tasked of co-ordinating the co-operation between the different governmental organisations responsible for supervising the adherence to the regulations and laws of the Waddenzee has awarded a contract to Chartworx Holland for the development of a GIS to support their task. This Geographical Area Integral Supervision and Information System will provide information, per designated area, on the applicable regulations and laws, the organisation(s) authorised to take action against those infringing the laws or the regulations, and procedures to process incidents. The system is also aimed to support tracing and search departments. All incident evidence, including tracking information of ARPA and AIS contacts, will be logged and stored in a database. In addition, documents, spreadsheets, photographs, video and sound fragments may be displayed and logged. The system can be interfaced to all navigation sensors and support C-MAP CM 93/3 ISO 19379 certified digital cartography. In the future, the system will be extended with facilities to automatically generate official records of evidence and other applicable reports, and will be interfaced to intra-web or similar. It is the intention that vessels of the relevant organisations that are also involved in surveillance of the Waddenzee are to be fitted with this system.
