Prof. M. Baraka, Prof. A. El-Shazly, Dr. W. El-Dash Melaha 2014 – Resilience Navigation 01 - 03 September, 2014 - Alexandria, Egypt

Implementing Sat Altimetry Data for the Det. of River Nile Organized by AIN

Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation After: , Mills, J. and D. Dodd. 2014, Ellipsoidally Referenced Surveying for Hydrography, International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), Copenhagen, Demark, May.

Prof. M. Baraka, Prof. A. El-Shazly, Dr. W. El-Dash Melaha 2014 – Resilience Navigation 01 - 03 September, 2014 - Alexandria, Egypt

Implementing Sat Altimetry Data for the Det. of River Nile Organized by AIN

Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

Implementing Satellite Altimetry Data

For The Determination Of River Nile

Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

September 2014

Prof. Moustafa Baraka

The Civil Engineering Program

The German University in Cairo

Prof. Adel El-Shazly

Faculty of Civil Engineering

Cairo University

Dr. Waleed El-Dash

Ministry of Water Resources &

Irrigation, Egypt

Prof. M. Baraka, Prof. A. El-Shazly, Dr. W. El-Dash Melaha 2014 – Resilience Navigation 01 - 03 September, 2014 - Alexandria, Egypt

Implementing Sat Altimetry Data for the Det. of River Nile Organized by AIN

Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

Land and topographic surveys

Geoid

MSL

Ellipsoid

Vertical Datum

Navigation and hydrography

Chart datum

River chart datum

Dynamic river chart datum

- Vertical datum (VD) is used as a reference surface.

- The VD is completely realized by the Geoid.

- An approximation to the Geoid is mean sea level (MSL).

- Geoid/MSL for land survey and topographic mapping.

- Chart Datum (CD) for navigation and hydrography

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Prof. M. Baraka, Prof. A. El-Shazly, Dr. W. El-Dash Melaha 2014 – Resilience Navigation 01 - 03 September, 2014 - Alexandria, Egypt

Implementing Sat Altimetry Data for the Det. of River Nile Organized by AIN

Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

After: , Mills, J. and D. Dodd. 2014, Ellipsoidally Referenced Surveying for Hydrography,

International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), Copenhagen, Demark, May.

Chart Datum

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Prof. M. Baraka, Prof. A. El-Shazly, Dr. W. El-Dash Melaha 2014 – Resilience Navigation 01 - 03 September, 2014 - Alexandria, Egypt

Implementing Sat Altimetry Data for the Det. of River Nile Organized by AIN

Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

After: Desler, J. et al, GPS Derived Water Levels for Large Scale Hydrographic Surveys, US Hydro 2009 Virginia USA, May.

Chart Datum

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Prof. M. Baraka, Prof. A. El-Shazly, Dr. W. El-Dash Melaha 2014 – Resilience Navigation 01 - 03 September, 2014 - Alexandria, Egypt

Implementing Sat Altimetry Data for the Det. of River Nile Organized by AIN

Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

River Chart Datum

- The water level should be above datum approximately 95% of the time.

- River chart datum is a sloping surface ≈ slope of river Surface at low stage.

- Daily mean water level should “never” fall more than 0.2 m below the chart

datum during the navigation season.

Dynamic River Chart Datum

- Monthly water level record → accurate chart datum at coastal location

- Many years of records necessary to provide mean water level required to

determine dynamic river chart datum for lakes and rivers.

- Chart datum varies with time, location & discharge (dynamic chart datum).

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Implementing Sat Altimetry Data for the Det. of River Nile Organized by AIN

Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

Dynamic River Chart Datum for River Nile

Using Satellite Altimtery

- Use of satellite altimetry data to bridge the gap in monitoring river Nile

water level ( technical, political and economic constraints).

- Develop a new, rigorous and sustainable dynamic river chart datum using

recent satellite altimetry data in presence of scarce water-level gauge.

- Most of satellite altimetry systems are related to WGS84 ellipsoid.

- Satellite altimetry provides dense and reliable data on:

sea surface height,

wave height,

surface wind speed.

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Implementing Sat Altimetry Data for the Det. of River Nile Organized by AIN

Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

Satellite Altimetry

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Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

Satellite Altimetry Systems

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Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

Satellite Altimetry For River Nile and Its Lakes

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Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

Satellite Data for River Nile and Its Lakes

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Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

Determination Dynamic Chart Datum in Lake Nasser

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Implementing Sat Altimetry Data for the Det. of River Nile Organized by AIN

Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

Determination Dynamic Chart Datum in Lake Nasser

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Implementing Sat Altimetry Data for the Det. of River Nile Organized by AIN

Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

Determination Dynamic Chart Datum in Lake Nasser

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Implementing Sat Altimetry Data for the Det. of River Nile Organized by AIN

Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

Determination Dynamic Chart Datum in Lake Nasser

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Implementing Sat Altimetry Data for the Det. of River Nile Organized by AIN

Dynamic Chart Datum For Safety Navigation

Thank You

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