icemap – collaborate ice mapping system at the baltic sea (finland –germany- sweden) finnish...

IceMap –

Collaborate ice mapping system at the Baltic Sea

(Finland –Germany- Sweden) Finnish Institute of Marine ResearchIICWG-4, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-10 April 2003 / A. Seina

Ari Seina

Finnish Ice Service

Torbjorn Grafstrom

Swedish Ice Service

IceMap

Versions1.0 /1994 1.6 /19951.1 /1994 1.7 /19961.2 /1994 1.8 /19981.3 /1995 1.9 /20011.4 /1995 .............1.5 /1995 3.1.3.2 /2003

Developer: VTT – Technical Research Centre of Finland / Information Technology

•1994 Operational at Finnish Ice Service

•1995 Operational at Swedish Ice Service

•1996 Operational at German Ice Service

Finnish Institute of Marine ResearchIICWG-4, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-10 April 2003 / A. Seina

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND

• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland/Robin Berglund

ICEMAP main features today

• An interactive editing tool for creating maps using satellite images as templates

• Based on polygon networks: attibutes can be assigned to areas defined as polygons. These attributes are related to the visual appearance (hatching), but also to properties like ice thickness etc.

• Output formats: Postscript, Grid (attribute values at regular sampled intervals), area sizes and types per area. Other formats can be generated from the Postscript output (PDF, raster)

• Possibility to read temperature measurements directly from file and plot them on the map

• Isotherm generation

• Tailored to the needs of the Ice services around the Baltic Sea.

• Runs on a Unix workstation (HP-Unix, Digital Unix, SUN Solaris)

• Implemented using C++, X-Windows, Motif

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND

• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland/Robin Berglund

ICEMAP recent additions and future enhancement ideas

• Possibility to run IceMap in batch-mode. Enables automated production of charts for separate areas and in different formats (including grid-files). Used at FIMR Ice Service.

• Automatic coloring of charts according to ice polygon attributes. Experimental at this stage (waits for the color standard to be finalized)

• Additional attributes for the ice polygons related to ice ridging. Enabling of dynamic addition of new attributes.

• Output according to SIGRID-3 (under investigation)

• Line simplification to reduce size of output file. Useful for possible transfer of vector formats over slow links. (Not implemented yet)

• Linux-version will be prototyped in a research project (IRIS). Prototype will be made available to participants in the IRIS project (FIMR, SMHI)

• Possibility to have access to the source code will be offered. Enables development of enhancements and in-house support without dependency on VTT. Conditions still to be agreed upon.

– copy of corrections/improvements also sent back to VTT

– for use within own organization only

VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND

• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland/Robin Berglund

IceMap on Linux - licensing options

Finnish Institute of Marine ResearchIICWG-4, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-10 April 2003 / A. Seina

Each ice area contains:

Thickness (avg.): xxx cm

Thickness (min.): xxx cm

Thickness (max.): xxx cm

Concentration: xxx %

Degree of ridging: x unit

0= no deformation

1= rafted ice

2= weakly ridged ice

3= ridged ice

4= heavily ridged ice

5= brash ice barrier

Finnish Institute of Marine ResearchIICWG-4, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-10 April 2003 / A. Seina

•Ice forecast

•SAR algorithm based products

NOAAAVHRR

RADARSATSAR

Receiving& processing

Format change& compression

IceView:Check& adjust

Sending to ships

Down-loading

Geometric transformation+ area cuts+ resolution decreasing+compression

Sending toicebreakers

ICEMAPICEMAP

AutomaticClassification

AutomaticClassification

IceView:Check& adjust

Ice chartCall-fax

ECMWF

SST

Ground truth

Ice forecastIce forecast

HIRLAM

Wave &gaugedata

WAM WAM

Ice driftchart

Ice drift in text format

Wave forecast charts

            Users of all kind:-Icebreakers-Ships-Pilots-Fishermen-Coastal guard-Military-Strategic transpor-tation planning-Great public

Wave forecasts in text

e-mail

FINNISH ICE SERVICE: FLOW OF DATA AND INFORMATION PRODUCTS                                  

Formats: *.pdf, *.ice, *.tiff, *.postcript, *.grid,

In flow ProcessesModel

Model Output product ServerManual operation

Interactive operations on computer

Finnish Institute of Marine ResearchIICWG-4, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-10 April 2003 / A. Seina

IceMap is a part of ice service system

Architecture used in the Baltic Sea

1.1 km pixel, visible and infrared

NOAA satellites

NOAA weather satellite images

RADARSAT

30 - 100 m pixel, all weather

FMI = Finnish Meteorological InstituteSMHI = Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological InstituteFIMR= Finnish Institute for Marine researchFMA = Finnish Maritime AdministrationSMA= Swedish Maritime Adminstration

FMA,

SMA

FMA,

SMA

Icebreakers

Shipowner’s

Office

Shipowner’s

Office

IBPlott

SMHI

Data provider Server

- Image delivery

ViewIce

Clientsoftware

-Imagepreprocessing and geocoding-Compression

FMI

- Icemaps

Merchant ships

Possible link

Mobile link

Iceservice(FIMR)

Tromsö

Data Provider Server Client Software

Finnish Institute of Marine ResearchIICWG-4, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-10 April 2003 / A. Seina

Finnish Institute of Marine ResearchIICWG-4, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-10 April 2003 / A. Seina

Data to the icebreakers and ships:

•IBPlott system for icebreakers

•IceView for ships

An example of the icebreaker IBPlott system

Ice charts and satellite data to icebreakers and ships in digital format

Ice thickness classification

Combination of SAR image algorithms & ground truth measurements

FIMR’s latest operational product to users at sea (in experimental use in

2003)

Finnish Institute of Marine ResearchIICWG-4, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-10 April 2003 / A. Seina

Resolution ~500 x 500 m

Finnish Institute of Marine ResearchIICWG-4, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-10 April 2003 / A. Seina

Future ice charting system:

•IceMap

2003 =>Linux version

2003 => Source code to users

•ArcGIS

•Other possibilities ????????????????

We have not desided the future system:

•IceMap could be used for several years

•Other possibilities will be studied

Finnish Institute of Marine ResearchIICWG-4, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-10 April 2003 / A. Seina

Today: Workstations

Future: PCs???

Preliminary results of the grid-pointextraction from the operative IceMap ice charts (chart is 2003-02-27).

Information will be submitted to GDSIDB.

Data base covers 1960-2003.

Remaining 2 years of Baltic Sea ice digitalization project(1980/81 and 81/82) will be finalized in summer of 2003.

Torbjorn Grafstrom

SMHI

IICWG-4, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-10 April 2003 / A. Seina

IICWG-4, St. Petersburg, Russia, 7-10 April 2003