River Information Service Message
Identification section
One msg contains one of these sections
Fairway and traffic related section
Water related section
Ice related section
Weather related section
Internal ID
Sender (System) of the message
Originator (initiator) of the information in this message
Country where message is valid
Original language used in the textual info. (contents)
District / Region within the specified country, where the message is applicable
Date and time of publication including time zone
Internal ID
NtS Number
Target group information
Subject code must contain one of the following: Announcement (ANNOUN), Warning (WARNIN), Notice withdrawn (CANCEL) or Information service (INFSER). More information on the use of codes can be found in the NtS Encoding Guide.
Overall period of validity
Additional information in local language
Notice source (name of authority)
Reason / justification of the notice
Communication channel information
Fairway section
Object section
Reporting regime (information, or duty to report)
Communication code (telephone, VHF etc.)
Telephone, VHF number (including callsign), e-mail address, URL or teletext
Name of the attachment or additional information
Additional remarks concerning the communication
Geo Information of object
Object limitation section
Internal ID
NtS Number
Overall period of validity
Object section
Value reference (measurement reference)
Measurements (normal or predicted values)
Predicted measurement (1 or true) or real measurement (0 or false)
Kind of water related information
Measured or predicted value
Lowest value of confidence interval
Highest value of confidence interval
Unit of the water related value
Barrage status
Regime applicable
Date and Time of measurement or predicted value including time zone
Difference with comparative value
Difference with comparative value
Time difference with measuredata of comparative measurement
Internal ID
NtS Number
Overall period of validity
Fairway section - the limitation inside the fairway section cannot be used in the ICEM
Ice conditions
Date and Time of measurement or prediction including time zone
Condition code
Accessibility code
Classification code
Situation code
Internal ID
NtS Number
Overall period of validity
Fairway section
Actual or Forecast report sections
Geo Information of fairway
Date and time of measurement or predicted value including timezone
Forecast (true or 1) OR Actual report (false or 0)
Classification of weather report
Weather items
Weather item type (Wind, Wave etc)
Actual or Minimum value
Maximum value
Gusts value (Wind)
Unit of the value
Classification of wind report
Direction of wind or wave
Direction of wind or wave
Internal ID - best practice: global unique identifier
Name of the publishing organisation (NtS Provider)
Year of first issuing of the notice
Number of the notice (per year, starting with: 1, 0 shall not be used for published notices)
Serial number of notice (replacements and withdrawals), original notice: 0
Start date of validity period including time zone
End date of validity period including time zone
Geo information of fairway
Fairway section limitations
ISRS Location Code of the fairway/object
Local name of the fairway section
Type of geographical object
Describes the position related to the fairway
Fairway section begin and end coordinates
Waterway name (usefull if no RIS Index is available)
ISRS location code, unique identification of the geo object as defined in RIS Index encoding guide
Limitation periods / intervals
Kind of limitation
Describes the position of the limitation related to the fairway
Value of limitation (i.e. max draught)
Unit of the value of the limitation
Value reference
Minimum or maximum or reduced by
Target group information
Start date of limitation period including time zone
End date of limitation period including time zone
Start time of limitation period without time zone
End time of limitation period without time zone
Interval for limitation if applicable
Target group (vessel type)
Upstream or downstream traffic, or both