Monday, 11 March 2013

Bathy Berth Box Profiler

A recent project has been the development of a berth box profiler for Sydney Ports Corp.

Often it is difficult to quickly highlight shoal spot depths within a berth box on a conventional bathymetry chart, especially small scale charts densely populated with soundings. It is generally the shoalest depth and its realtive location (chainage) along a wharf which is of importance rather than its absolute position in real world coordinates. This is especially true when under-keel clearance is an issue and dictates where along a wharf a vessel may be berthed.

Hence the new executable app. It will take high resolution XYZ ascii data from within a berth box and "snap" to fender line, and output a re-projected dataset showing Chainage, Depth and (if required) perpendicular distance to fender line.

Capable of handling larger data sets than CivilCAD, and without the crashing ;-)