APPENDIX A

AGENDA

IOC/IASC/IHO Editorial Board for the
International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean

Royal Danish Administration of Navigation and Hydrography
Copenhagen, October 19-20, 1998

0900-0930 MONDAY: OPENING ACTIVITIES

Call to order
Introductions
Welcoming remarks
Administrative items
Revisions to agenda

0930-1230 MONDAY: REPORTS
     (Developments and new information since the St. Petersburg Workshop)

Sergei MASCHENKOV, VNIIOkeangeologia
      New bathymetric compilations at VNIIOkeangeologia

Ron MACNAB, Geological Survey of Canada
      Mapping the channels of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Hilmar HELGASON, Icelandic Hydrographic Service
      Bathymetric mapping and data holdings off Iceland

Hans Werner SCHENKE, Alfred Wegener Institute
      New data arising from Polarstern's 1998 cruise

Valeriy FOMCHENKO, Head Department of Navigation and Oceanography (GUNiO)
      A new contour map of Arctic bathymetry

Martin JAKOBSSON, Stockholm University
      Developing a bathymetric grid for the Eurasian shelf

Norm CHERKIS, Naval Research Laboratory
      Treatment of 1957-1982 submarine data

Bob ANDERSON, Arctic Submarine Laboratory
      Prospects for declassification of post-1982 submarine data

Bernie COAKLEY, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
      SCICEX 1998 and SCAMP

1400-1700 MONDAY: DISCUSSION
      (Based loosely upon the contents of the Strategic Plan)

Candidate data sets
      already known
      newly identified

Intended products
      digital data bases: public and proprietary observations
      gridded depth values
      paper maps
      documentation
      distribution media: digital, electronic, paper

Partitioning the project geographically
      the High Seas
      Zones of National Interest (ZINs)
      allocation of responsibilities in the High Seas and ZINs
      bi- and multilateral cooperation with data exchange

0900-1200 TUESDAY: DISCUSSION

General procedures for handling the data
      assembling and converting
      verifying and adjusting
      merging and gridding
      managing and archiving

Related topics
      standard coastline
      digital terrain model

Work plan and timetable

1330-1500 TUESDAY: CONCLUSION

Funding needs and strategies
Long-term issues
Plans for drafting and circulating the Meeting report
Proposals for 1999 Meeting
Acknowledgements

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