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Chartworx News, November 2007
 
Stand Chartworx Europort Maritime.
Vagabond News, July 2007
Three years ago, Vagabond left Brittany and sailed to Spitsbergen. There, she just finished her third wintering, she was again frozen in ice for about nine months. This year also, summer will be short: sailing in the fjords in August, then supplying and maintaining the boat in September. Early October will already start the fourth wintering, still in Inglefield Bay, on the east coast of the island. This is where, with our three dogs, we are welcoming scientists, about twenty yet since 2004. They come to understand and forecast climate change in the Arctic, particularly the future of the pack ice, within European project Damocles. Sport expeditions are also using Vagabond's wintering location, where their supplies can wait for them safely. Photographers, cameramen or artists as well, who enjoy the unique setting of our polar 'oasis', can show about our missions. Among the 494 polar bears seen in three
years, tempted by the many seals basking on the ice sometimes very close to
the yacht, only one climbed on the deck. We are living together nicely in this fragile environment which we enjoy and protect as much as we can, using wind generator and solar panels, as well as dog sledge, skis and even snowkite. However, the great adventure this year for us was to welcome our little daughter Léonie, born at the end of the polar night, just before the launch of the International Polar Year!
To better share our experience, we will be replaced on board Vagabond for the first part of the next polar night, and we will be in France for some events:
- coming out of the book 'Circumpolaris, Vagabond dans l'Arctique', published by Glénat early October (not yet in English)
- International Adventure Film Festival, from 11 to 13 October in Dijon
- Oceanographic Adventure Film Festival, from 26 October to 4 November in Brest
- Paris Boat Show, from 1 to 9 December
- exhibition 'Voyages to the Poles', until March 2008 in Brest
For more information, please check regularly the web page
www.vagabond.fr/actualites.
Greetings from Spitsbergen!
France Pinczon du Sel et Eric Brossier
More about on going project: www.vagabond.fr/spitsberg2006-2008.en
Logbook: www.vagabond.fr/news
Third wintering photo album: www.vagabond.fr/album/Spitsberg2006
Our partners: www.vagabond.fr/partenaires
Chartworx News, Article Hydro International, July 2007
Chartworx to Provide ECS for Aircraft (02/07/2007)
Optimare Sensorsysteme AG, based in Bremerhaven (Germany) has taken delivery of nine operational and planning versions of TheMAP 210 Electronic Chart Systems manufactured by Chartworx BV. Six of these systems will be installed by Optimare in the Dornier 228 Aircraft of the Netherlands Coast Guard.
A complete spare system will be kept available on the ground and two systems are available for planning and analysis purposes in the Coast Guard office. The systems have been adapted to fully integrate with the Side Looking Airborne Radar (SLAR) systems on board of the aircraft while special defined layers like Terminal Maneuvering Areas TMA's) and restricted area's can be superimposed over the navigational data as well. All systems are supported by subscriptions to C-MAP by Jeppesen professional digital cartography for Europe.
Chartworx BV (The Netherlands)
http://www.chartworx.com
ECDIS News, September 2006
Second ECDIS Stakeholders Forum 12 – 13 September 2006 Monaco in conjunction with 10th WEND Meeting.
During the first ECDIS Stakeholders meeting that took place in Rostock (Germany) 6 and 7 September 2005 in conjunction with the 17th meeting of the Committee on Hydrographic Requirements for Information Systems (CHRIS), the ECDIS Stakeholders asked to consider the next meeting be held in conjunction with the Worldwide ENC Data base Committee (WEND). This would enable the Stakeholders to discuss in particular their “hottest” item, the Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC’s) and the related problems. Very kindly the IHB and the WEND committee thus organised a Stakeholders Forum halfway through the recent WEND annual meeting.
Also present at the meeting were Vice-Admiral Alexandros Maratos, Director and President of the Directing Committee of the IHB and Rear-Admiral Kenneth Barbor, one of the other directors of the Directing Committee. read more
C-MAP News, January 2006
C-MAP Norway approved as one of the first “Certified NOAA ENC Value Added Distributor”
From December 1st, 2005 C-MAP Norway was certified as a NOAA ENC Value Added Distributor.
With the US ENCs added to the C-MAP Official ENC Service,
C-MAP Norway once again proves to be the leading supplier of Official ENCs on the global market place.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), conducts research and gathers data about the global oceans, atmosphere, space, and sun, and applies this knowledge to science and service. NOAA's National Ocean Service is composed of ten program and staff offices, one of which is the Office of Coast Survey. read more
Chartworx News, October 2005
Chartworx press release
Chartworx develops GIS to support supervision of adherence to environmental laws to protect the environment in the Wadden Sea.
Since 1980 the Netherlands Wadden Sea is protected according to the key planning decision Wadden Sea (PKB), also called the Wadden Sea Memorandum, which is a national physical planning document defining the overall objectives of conservation, management and use of the Wadden Sea.
The Ramsar Convention 1971 is a world wide treaty for the conservation of wetlands: shallow open waters and any land regularly or intermittently covered or saturated by water. The Dutch Wadden Sea Memorandum Area is a Ramsar site.
The EC Bird Directive 1979 aims at the protection of all species of naturally occurring birds in the territory of the member states. According to the Bird Directive, the Dutch Wadden Sea Ramsar site (and the German and the Danish) has been designated as special protection area (SPA).)
The EC Habitat Directive 1992 aims at the conservation of habitats of wild flora and fauna in the member states. Major parts of the Wadden Sea have been designated under the Habitats Directive.
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