Charting a Course into the Digital Era

Guidance for NOAA's Nautical Charting Mission

Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309051392
eISBN Pdf: 9780309587310
Place of publication: United States
Year of digital publication: 1994
Month: January
Pages: 152
Language: English

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A number of trends and forces are converging to require change in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) nautical charting mission. The most salient among these are changes in customer requirements, with a growing demand for customized and digital nautical information products; a changing customer base that encompasses uses of nautical charts in conjunction with coastal management, regulation, and development activities; and advances in technologies both for acquiring survey data and for structuring, displaying, analyzing, and disseminating nautical information.

This volume assesses the needs of users of nautical information; reviews existing and emerging technologies; and examines major issues associated with information acquisition, chart preparation, and dissemination. The book addresses user requirements for improved nautical chart products, as well as technical and programmatic issues relating to the need for and provision of nautical information.

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Front Matter
Executive Summary
1 Overview of the Nautical Information System
2 User Needs for Nautical Information
3 Filling the Data Base: Data Collection
4 The Digital Nautical Data Base: From Paper Charts to Electronic Charts and Beyond
5 Nautical Information as a Component of a Marine Geographic Information System
6 Nautical Information Products and Their Dissemination: Toward a New Way of Doing Business
7 Resource Constraints: Removing the Barriers
8 Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members
Appendix B: Other Agencies
Appendix C-1: Nautical Chart and Information Survey
Appendix C-2: Responses to Survey
Appendix D: Workshop on the Future Needs of Users for Nautical Information
Appendix E: Principles of Benefit-Cost Analysis Applied to Surveys
Appendix F: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Appendix G: Examples of Uses of Data by State Environmental Agencies
Appendix H: A National Coastal Zone (Shoreline) Data Base