Hydrography Priorities Working Group
| At its 4th Meeting (Kythnos, Greece, Sept. 2004), the HCA established a new Working Group: HCA Survey Programme Working Group with the specific aim is to establish co-operation and collaboration between hydrographic organisations and scientific institutions in hydrographic surveying in Antarctica. The WG was renamed HCA Survey Prioritisation Working Group at HCA-8 (Niteroi, RJ, Brazil, Oct. 2008), then HCA Hydrography Priorities Working Group (HPWG) at HCA-12 (Montevideo, Uruguay, Oct. 2012) with revised Terms of Reference. As a result, in addition to addressing hydrographic surveying in Antarctica, HPWG is also in charge of coordinating INT chart and ENC schemes. (Please see the Scheming and Production of INT Charts and ENCs in Region M.) |
| Chair | Mr. Lee Truscott (Lee.Truscott@UKHO.gov.uk), United Kingdom |
| Membership | |
| in 2004 | Argentina, Australia, Chile, Germany, Greece, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, USA, COMNAP (observer) and IAATO (observer). |
| since HCA-14, June 2016 | The HCA Chair proposed that, because of its key coordinating role in the HCA, all HCA Members and Observers should be considered as participants in the HPWG in future (Decision&Action HCA14/16). |
| Terms of Reference |
Guidelines and Forms
The following documents have been developed and/or are being maintained by the HCA HPWG:
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Form for Collection and Rendering of Hydrographic Data, for use by ships' captains on Antarctic vessels.
- Form Request for Bathymetric Data, for use by Hydrographic Office when preparing a new Edition or a new INT chart.
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Revised Survey Plan for Antarctica (version HCA-17, September 2021): Peninsula Survey Plan for Antarctica
HPWG Letters
No |
Subject |
| 2022 | |
| 01/2022 | Letter from SHN, Argentina dated 4 April 2022 - Decepción Island |
| 2021 | |
| e-01/2021 | HPWG MSR Review & Peninsula Survey Plan. HCA17 Documents 07.2A & 07.2B |
| 2013 | |
| 01/2013 | Request for details of planned surveys - Action 12/15 from HCA12 |
| 2012 | |
| 01/2012 | Decisions and actions Item No HCA11/14 |
| 2011 | |
| 01/2011 | Decisions and actions Item No HCA10/27 |
| 2009 | |
| 01/2009 | Revision of the HCA Survey Short List and the HCA Long Term Survey Plan |
| 2005 | |
| 02/2005 | IHO Hydrographic Committee on Antarctica. HCA4. Decisions and actions Item No 8 |
| 01/2005 | HCA Statement of Survey Requirements and Survey Plan for the International Polar Year (IPY) (2007-08) |
| 2004 | |
| 01/2004 | HCA Statement of Survey Requirements and Survey Plan for the International Polar Year (IPY) (2007-08) |
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