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The GHyCoP-Network:
Federal- and Regional Governments
as well as Governmental Agencies
Services:
• Hydrography
• Consulting
• Shipping
Companies
• Logistics

Industry:
Suppliers of
Components and
System solutions

Research & Education
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Our Support for Southern Asia:
Focusing on immediate and sustainable support:
GHyCoP concentrates on solutions for sub-marine damages and
changes which are in general not visible from air:

Starting point:
The tsunami has caused a tremendous sub-aqueous transport of
sediments. Ports and shipping routes are filled with sediments in addition
to wrecks and other debris from onshore, and may be therefore unsafe.
Buoys and other navigational traffic signs are destroyed or drifted away.
The former existing maritime infrastructure (survey vessels and
processing facilities) at many places are lost or destroyed.

So, what to do on short notice?
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Urgent Measures:
 Identification of damages
 Supply of equipment and survey vessels incl. special
ships for buoy launching and removal of obstacles and
wrecks which may lay in the shipping routes.
 Reconstruction of local hydrographic services
 Surveying damages at coastal facilities e.g. ports and
shipping routes
with the immediate task:
 to guarantee cost-effective and secure supply of goods
via sea transport, with the aim to help people back to
self-reliance (instead of supplying people via helicopter),
 to support local fishermen (and other maritime business
people) to get back to their normal life.
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Sustainable Approach:
Starting point:
Tsunamis may have different sources:
 earthquakes
 sub-marine land slides, turbidity currents
 sub-marine volcanic eruptions
In the deep ocean tsunamis are not really dangerous.
Tsunamis are growing only when approaching shallow
coastal areas!
Their tremendous potential of damages depends on the
shape of the coastal topography and the shelf-ocean
morphology.
Therefore sustainability means:
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Sustainable Approach:
Goals:
 Detailed sea floor surveying of the coastal zones.
 Development of hydro-numerical forecasting models
which are based on detailed survey results to predict the
run of tsunamis and their magnitude
to alert and avoiding false alarms.
GHyCoP provides support on the base of approved
knowledge and techniques,
which is available in Germany and can be activated on
short notice!
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Results:
 The provision of such an operational system strengthens
sustainable benefit to the Southern Asian nations and
and deepens a long-term co-operation with Germany.
 Based on a reliable public-private-partnership, a broad
range of products and services can be provided on short
notice even in the governmental sphere.
 The proposed measures will be accompanied by
education and training programmes.
 GHyCoP provides an existing network of German
governmental agencies, public and private services and
industry which is ready to start on short notice.
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Benefit for All:
GHyCoP
the German Hydrographic Consultancy Pool w.V.
is a living network of German
 governmental authorities,
 Research and educational institutes
 public and private services and
 industry
which is ready to start on short notice.

Let’s work for a save future
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