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operations; size thresholds and fragment classifications must follow an identified convention.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence that the body is detached land-origin ice and qualifies as an iceberg under the selected convention", "Above-water and submerged geometry, with observation times and uncertainty", "Position, drift, orientation and floating or grounded state", "Fracture, melting, rollover and fragmentation as changes to the tracked body", "Iceberg-specific hazards and conditions governing observation, avoidance or intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The parent glacier or ice shelf as a continuing ice system", "Sea ice, ice floes and regional sea-ice cover", "Ocean currents, weather and bathymetry as independently maintained environmental models", "Vessels, offshore installations and their general operating procedures", "Regional iceberg populations, climatology and ice-service forecasting systems", "Ownership, permitting and commercial ice-harvesting operations beyond their constraints on this iceberg" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish land-ice origin using direct evidence or a qualified interpretation; a body formed by freezing surrounding seawater belongs to the sea-ice model.", "Establish detachment from a glacier or ice shelf; an attached projecting ice front is not yet an individual iceberg.", "Apply an explicitly named size convention to distinguish an iceberg from a bergy bit, growler or other fragment; preserve an uncertain classification when dimensions are unresolved.", "Distinguish one coherent ice body from a cluster of separate bodies or an unresolved radar return before assigning individual identity.", "Distinguish grounding from continued attachment to land ice; contact with the seabed does not by itself establish glacier membership." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Land-ice origin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "confirmed land-origin ice | probable land-origin ice | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether the 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"why_it_matters": "Supports classification, recognition and assessment of the visible obstruction." }, { "name": "Submerged extent", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "draft in m and underwater envelope; method, uncertainty and unresolved areas", "why_it_matters": "Supports underwater clearance assessment without substituting visible dimensions for measured submerged geometry." }, { "name": "Drift and rotation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "speed in m/s, direction in degrees and angular rate in degrees/hour; reference frame and interval", "why_it_matters": "Supports encounter prediction and reveals changes that invalidate an earlier track." }, { "name": "Support state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "floating | grounded | intermittently grounded | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Changes how movement, seabed interaction and possible release should be assessed." }, { "name": "Structural condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed cracks, overhangs, cavities, fragment shedding and recent orientation changes; unknown where unobserved", "why_it_matters": "Records evidence relevant to deterioration and instability without claiming a certain failure time." }, { "name": "Track and fragment lineage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "prior observations, predecessor body and resulting fragments, with association confidence", "why_it_matters": "Preserves continuity through changing appearance, incomplete sightings and breakup." } ], "affordances": [ "Recognise or provisionally classify an ice body using origin, detachment and size evidence.", "Associate new sightings with the iceberg and maintain a track with explicit uncertainty.", "Request remote, surface or underwater observations to resolve decision-critical gaps.", "Estimate future occupied areas and possible encounters using linked environmental information.", "Recommend avoidance, monitoring or operational restrictions using current evidence and applicable procedures.", "Assess whether a proposed tow, deflection, sampling or other intervention has sufficient evidence and authorization to proceed." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "iceberg-recognition-and-lineage", "name": "Iceberg recognition and lineage", "description": "Establishes what the ice body is and how its identity persists across observations and breakup.", "rationale": "A tracked iceberg must be distinguished from sea ice, attached land ice and other fragments before observations or decisions can be attributed to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "origin-and-classification", "name": "Origin and classification", "description": "Records the evidence supporting land-ice origin, detachment and the chosen iceberg category.", "findings": [ { "id": "iceberg-membership-evidence", "name": "Iceberg membership evidence", "description": "The agent must record a supported or provisional classification, including the convention used and evidence still missing.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes that this is detached land-origin ice rather than sea ice or an attached ice front?", "kind": "definition", "id": "iceberg-membership-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Under which size convention does this body qualify as an iceberg, and could measurement uncertainty place it in a neighbouring fragment class?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "iceberg-membership-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sighting-and-fragment-continuity", "name": "Sighting and fragment continuity", "description": "Connects observations and resulting fragments without assuming that a changing outline implies a new body.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-through-change", "name": "Identity through change", "description": "The agent must distinguish supported track continuity from uncertain association and explicitly record breakup lineage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which position history, shape features or other observations support associating this sighting with the existing iceberg?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-through-change-q01" }, { "text": "After fragmentation, which body, if any, retains the previous identity, and which bodies require linked successor identities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identity-through-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "exposed-and-submerged-form", "name": "Exposed and submerged form", "description": "Describes the iceberg's visible form and underwater obstruction as separate, time-dependent evidence.", "rationale": "Recognition can rely on exposed shape, while clearance and grounding decisions require information about portions that may not be visible.", "layers": [ { "id": "exposed-form", "name": "Exposed form", "description": "Records dimensions and distinctive features above the contemporaneous water surface.", "findings": [ { "id": "visible-envelope", "name": "Visible envelope", "description": "The agent must record observed exposed dimensions and outline without presenting an incomplete viewing angle as a complete survey.", "questions": [ { "text": "What length, width, freeboard and distinctive shape features were observed, at what time and relative to which water level?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "visible-envelope-q01" }, { "text": "Which faces or edges were obscured, and how does that limit the reported dimensions and shape classification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "visible-envelope-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "underwater-form", "name": "Underwater form", "description": "Records the submerged envelope and distinguishes direct observations from inferred geometry.", "findings": [ { "id": "draft-and-submerged-projections", "name": "Draft and submerged projections", "description": "The agent must preserve the method and uncertainty of draft estimates and identify underwater areas that remain unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "What draft and lateral submerged extent are supported by observations, and what uncertainty accompanies each estimate?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "draft-and-submerged-projections-q01" }, { "text": "Where geometry is inferred from exposed form, what assumptions were used and what independent evidence supports them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "draft-and-submerged-projections-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "drift-grounding-and-encounters", "name": "Drift, grounding and encounters", "description": "Tracks movement and seabed contact and relates the iceberg's possible future position to nearby operations.", "rationale": "An iceberg's significance depends on where its full envelope may move, whether it is constrained by grounding and what occupies the same water.", "layers": [ { "id": "motion-and-support", "name": "Motion and support", "description": "Separates measured drift and rotation from interpretations of floating or grounded state.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-motion-and-grounding", "name": "Observed motion and grounding", "description": "The agent must record motion over a stated interval and the evidence for any grounding assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What translation and rotation are supported by successive observations, including their time intervals and positional uncertainty?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-motion-and-grounding-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes grounding from slow drift, and which water-level or seabed uncertainties could change that assessment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observed-motion-and-grounding-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "future-occupied-water", "name": "Future occupied water", "description": "Relates forecast movement and the iceberg's dimensions to potential encounters.", "findings": [ { "id": "encounter-envelope", "name": "Encounter envelope", "description": "The agent must express future occupancy as a conditional estimate with an expiry and identify possible conflicts with linked vessels or structures.", "questions": [ { "text": "What area could the iceberg occupy over the decision horizon, given track uncertainty, submerged 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observation conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What changes in dimensions, cracks, cavities or fragment shedding are supported by comparable observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "documented-deterioration-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports attributing the change to melting, fracture or another process rather than viewpoint or measurement differences?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-deterioration-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rollover-and-breakup", "name": "Rollover and breakup", "description": "Records evidence of instability and events that invalidate prior geometry or tracking assumptions.", "findings": [ { "id": "instability-evidence-and-reset", "name": "Instability evidence and reassessment", "description": "The agent must record observed or suspected rollover and breakup while preserving uncertainty about future occurrence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observations support a recent rollover, ongoing breakup or concern about instability, and what remains unresolved?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "instability-evidence-and-reset-q01" }, { "text": "Which geometry estimates, track associations and nearby-operation decisions must be reassessed after the event?", "kind": "action", "id": "instability-evidence-and-reset-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observation-and-intervention", "name": "Observation and intervention", "description": "Connects iceberg-specific evidence gaps and hazards to monitoring, approach and physical intervention decisions.", "rationale": "Recording an iceberg should support justified action without turning uncertain geometry or condition into assumed permission to approach or manipulate it.", "layers": [ { "id": "observation-sufficiency", "name": "Observation sufficiency", "description": "Assesses whether available observations are adequate and recent enough for the proposed decision.", "findings": [ { "id": "decision-critical-observation-gaps", "name": "Decision-critical observation gaps", "description": "The agent must 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a iceberg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a iceberg, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a iceberg, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a iceberg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a iceberg sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a iceberg, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a iceberg, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a iceberg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a iceberg from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a iceberg, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a iceberg, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a iceberg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a iceberg is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { 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"place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a iceberg is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a iceberg is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a iceberg, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a iceberg, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a iceberg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a iceberg is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a iceberg, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a iceberg, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a iceberg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a iceberg passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a iceberg between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a iceberg, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a iceberg, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a iceberg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a iceberg, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a iceberg is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a iceberg, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a iceberg, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a iceberg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What iceberg is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does iceberg perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise iceberg, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How iceberg is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does iceberg have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does iceberg need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about iceberg is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about iceberg hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern iceberg, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a iceberg came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a iceberg and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a iceberg, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a iceberg, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a iceberg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a iceberg is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a iceberg, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a iceberg, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a iceberg is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }