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Nautical Chart ProductsCHANGING WITH THE TIMES
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Charting responsibilities (USPS & USCG Aux too!)
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(R)evolutionizing nautical charts to catch the digital wave
Improving chart
production
Getting more charts into boaters’
hands
Listening to our
customers
Making data more
accessible
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• Currently maintains 1,025 nautical charts
• Checks each chart weekly, and applies all critical corrections• Data from Local Notices to Mariners
• Creates new chart editions • New bathymetry and shoreline data from NOAA ships, contracted surveys, and remote‐sensing planes
Improving chart
production
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Expanding NOAA’s suite of electronic navigational charts
• Recently created new ENCs for the St. Lawrence Seaway
• Reduced overlap among Canadian boundaries to avoid confusion
• ENCs first! • Changing production methods to enhance ENC suite
ECDIS users can download NOAA ENCs for free
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NOAA transitions from government‐run printing and distribution system to a competitive market
Lithographic printing process served Coast Survey for over 150 years.
But chart stocks were gradually more outdated until a new edition was printed.
Era officially ends on April 13, 2014.
Nautical chart printing presses, circa 1935
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We are improving paper charts by moving to “print‐on‐demand”
Lithographic charts
• Printed once a year (or even less frequently)
• Was outdated by the time the customer bought it
• Meets SOLAS carriage requirements – Title 33 CFR
Print‐on‐demand charts
• Printed when ordered
• Up‐to‐date at time of purchase
• Meets SOLAS carriage requirements if printed by a NOAA‐certified chart agent
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ENC Online
• Can view ENC without ECDIS
• Useful for planning voyages
• Easier for cartographers to see and fix discrepancies
nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/ENCOnline
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U.S. Coast Pilot
Available as print‐on‐demand • Updated with critical corrections
• Currently three distributors
• Meets carriage requirements with a certificate of authenticity
PDF available for free download• Updated with critical corrections
• “Print Your Own” meets carriage requirements
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Getting more charts into boaters’
hands
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New product: free PDF nautical charts
• Digital images of traditional nautical charts
• Especially valued by recreational boaters who use them to plan sailing routes and fishing trips
• Checked weekly, critical corrections applied
During three‐month beta test, public downloaded nearly 2.3 million charts.
“To us, that represents over two million opportunities to avoid an accident at sea.”
‐ Rear Admiral Gerd Glang
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What product meets your needs?
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• Tremendous innovation
• Platforms for faster chart delivery to millions of customers
• Connectivity creates new opportunities i.e., raster tile service
Making data more
accessible
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Tides and Currents
National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON)
– Water level, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure, air and water temperature, conductivity
– Short‐term water level station deployments
National Current Observations– Short‐term current meter deployments (70 sites a year)
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PORTS® (Physical Oceanographic Real‐Time System)
• water levels
• currents
• salinity
• air gap
• meteorological parameters
• visibility
• waves
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ports.html
Measures and disseminates real‐time observations, forecasts, and predictions
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Operational Forecast Models
16
(San Francisco)
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We want to hear from you…
• What is the most important improvement we can make to help you navigate more safely and efficiently?
• What is the biggest constraint to safe navigation and efficient voyage planning?
• How can we make our charts easier to use?
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Report chart discrepancies – for any chart
Nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/discrepancy
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