TECHAWI - Training and Education Centre Hydrography at AWI
TECHAWI, the Training and Education Centre Hydrography at the Alfred Wegener Institute, serves in advanced hydrographic vocational training and education. The training contributes to sophisticated knowledge in applications related to hydrography and it holds track to recent technological developments.
In this manner, individuals and institutions benefit from hydrographic knowledge transfer and capacity building (e.g. in developing countries) as well as from the strengthening of their hydrographic competences.
TECHAWI offers training for topics such as:
- Swath sonar measurements for waterways and harbours etc.
- Sediment survey with echo sounding systems and in-situ verification
- Maritime surveillance by hydroacoustic methods
- SOLAS offshore security training
- UNCLOS screening for an extended juridical Continental Shelf
- Marine geophysical processing
- Swath data verification, quality control and digital terrain modelling (DTM)
- Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) training
- GIS incl. M-GIS, digital charts and safe navigation
- Port management and Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
- Shallow water hydrography for tsunami studies
- Ocean Mapping
- The European Water Framework Directive
Concept
TECHAWI offers customized training and lectures in hydrography. The courses vary from a one-day-introduction to hydrography to a course of several days duration in selected topics, e.g. a high-tech training on the job for technical operators. The curriculum, i.e. topics, complexity, excercises, practical work, and tests, is custom-taylored to the demands of the trainees and the delegating agency, resp.
The education and training at TECHAWI include the following issues:
- Hydrographic measurement methods and systems for inland, coasts, and ocean
- Training and education with respect to the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea UNCLOS
- Port security (SOLAS), port monitoring and Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
- Geomorphology and regulations of the European Water Framework Directive
- Integration of hydrographic data in GIS for spatial planning and management