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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But chart stocks were gradually more outdated until a new edition was printed.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• Was outdated by the time the customer bought it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)

Presenter
Presentation Notes
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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