- Difficult undersea terrain and marine installations stretch across the East Coast of New Zealand’s South Island.
- Manual monitoring of vessel traffic and movements was resource intensive and subject to human error.
- There was an urgent need to leverage marine data from multiple sources for improved risk management.
- Guardian: Monitor provides Environment Canterbury with visibility of ships and vessels in real time and playback of their past activity.
- The solution uses virtual AtoNs to mark pilot stations and to replace physical AtoNs that are difficult to maintain.
- Overlaying of AIS data with information from other sources eliminates manual data mapping.
- Environment Canterbury has complete visual coverage of the East Coast of New Zealand’s South Island from Kaikoura to beyond the Otago Peninsula.
- Helps the set up of safe navigation zones around risk activity such as bunkering and hot work.
- Enables the delivery of high-quality service to the shipping industry, with better representation of potential risks and their effective management.
