PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FOR THE MARITIME COMMUNITY. Ed Martin, Chief Customer Affairs Branch Navigation Services Division Monday, 27 October, 2008

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1 PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FOR THE MARITIME COMMUNITY Ed Martin, Chief Customer Affairs Branch Navigation Services Division Monday, 27 October, 2008

2 Coral Reef Conservation International Collaboration Marine Protected Areas National Marine Sanctuaries Ocean Exploration Oil and Chemical Spills Coastal Decision-making Tools Coastal Ecosystem Science Coastal Management Coastal Monitoring and Observations Contaminants in the Environment Ecological Forecasting National Estuarine Research Reserves Natural Hazards Assessment Natural Resource Restoration Training and Capacity- building Aerial Photography Shoreline Mapping Global Positioning Marine Navigation Tides and Currents To understand and predict changes in Earth s environment and conserve and manage coastal and marine resources to meet our Nation s economic, social, and environmental needs

3 NOAA s Charting Responsibility NOAA is responsible for charting U.S. territorial waters and the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), a combined area of 3.4 million square nautical miles (SNM) which extends 200 nautical miles offshore from the nation s coastline. - 95,000 miles of U.S. coastline - 25,000 miles of navigable channels public/private ports - 3,700 marine terminals

4 1020 Paper, Raster and Print-on-Demand 671 Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC s) posted on the web 375 PocketChart 9 Coast Pilot s NOAA s Navigation Products and Services Weekly Raster and ENC Chart Updates 10 Regional Navigation Representatives 6 Navigation Response Teams Hydrographic Surveys Models and New Technologies

5 The Navigational Chart is one of the most fundamental tools available to the mariner. Raster Chart Display Systems (RCDS) are computer-based navigation systems which use raster nautical charts (RNC) and electronic positioning to provide an integrated navigational tool. Connect your PC or laptop to GPS receiver to view your position on a detailed chart Fugawi Global Navigator Jeppesen Nobeltec Visual Navigation Suite (with Raster Plus Pack) MapTech (Star Technologys) Chart Navigator and CAPN navigation software Rose Point Navigation Systems Coastal Explorer

6 Fully operational Print on Demand Recognized Official product Up-to-date at time of order Precedes release of new lithographic editions (5-8 weeks) Customer and material options Value added information Reduce inventory and warehouse costs Available subscriptions with updates Eliminate obsolete charts Avoid reprints pending new edition Allows point-of-purchase printing

7 NOAA ENC The NOAA electronic navigational chart, is a database of chart features. This information is used by navigation system software to draw a display that resembles a nautical chart, but has greatly enhanced functionality.

8 Electronic Navigation Chart Production (ENC) CURRENT STATUS: 40 major ports and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway completed Monthly update service introduced in May Chart equivalents needed for 100% coverage complete suite available in 2010 Used by U.S. Coast Guard Automatic Identification Systems

9 Electronic Charting Systems ECS - Electronic Chart System A generic term that covers a broad range of systems (including raster and ECDIS). ECDIS - Electronic Chart Display and Information System Uses ENC and electronic positioning to provide an integrated navigation tool. Use of ECDIS has been accepted by IMO as suitable for meeting chart requirements of SOLAS.

10 Electronic Chart System (ECS) Any type of electronic chart that does not comply with the IMO Performance Standard for ECDIS RTCM has developed a voluntary industry-wide standard for ECS ECS does not satisfy SOLAS chart carriage requirements Can use raster or vector data Can use ENC data Future mandatory carriage requirement for certain vessels possible

11 Electronic Chart Display and Information System Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS): A navigation information system Displays selected information from an ENC Integrates Chart data with data from other shipboard systems, such as GPS, Radar, and vessel performance monitoring systems. Use of ECDIS has been accepted by the IMO as suitable for meeting chart requirements of SOLAS.

12 How Can ENC s be Used? ECDIS systems that use NOAA ENC data where available and NOAA raster data where there is no ENC coverage meet current U.S. carriage requirements. Paper Chart backup may be mandatory depending upon the carriage requirements for regulated vessels There are converters capable of importing NOAA s ENC data from a S-57 format to formats for most industry standard GIS applications.

13 Some systems that currently use ENCs Sea Information Systems Microplot 7 ECDIS Litton Marine Vision 2100 ECDIS Kelvin Hughes Nucleus 2 ECDIS Transas Navi-Sailor 2400 ECDIS Offshore Systems ECPINS Navintra ECDIS EX 1000 Ican Aldebaran II

14 Coast Pilot, Supplement to the Nautical Chart Channel Descriptions Federal Regulations Pilotage Information Weather Port Facilities

15 Notice to Mariners These sites provide access to chart updates that have been published in United States Coast Guard (USCG) Local Notice to Mariners (LNM), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Notice to Mariners (NM)

16 NOAA Chart Update Overview The chart updates available on this site reflect the same chart update information available on the NOAA Print-on-Demand paper charts, the NOAA raster chart update service, and the NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts (NOAA ENC )

17 Navigation Managers

18 Navigation Response Teams

19 Office of Coast Survey: Hydrographic Surveying How do you keep 3.4 million SNM up to date? 500,000 sq. nautical miles of EEZ are navigationally significant 43,000 SNM are considered critical areas Surveyed over 22,600 SNM of the critical areas Last year surveyed over 3,500 SNM Integrated Ocean Observing System building block basic parameter Rocks, wrecks, obstructions, depths and seafloor characteristics NOAA Hydro Survey Priorities at nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/staff/nhsp.html

20 NOAA Hydrographic Survey Vessels RAINIER Seattle, WA 1968 BAY HYDROGRAPHER Silver Spring, MD 1988 (1996 to NOAA) Replacement in 2008 FAIRWEATHER Ketchikan, AK 1968 (2004 refit) RUDE Decommissione d early 2008 THOMAS JEFFERSON Norfolk, VA 1992 (2003 to NOAA) SWATH Multipurpose Mapping Vessel target 2009

21 Cartographic and Geospatial Technology Programs Provide geospatial services to OCS to support OCS navigational products and provide data access to the public Data Transformation Geospatial Standards Development GIS Product Development Web Distribution of Data (nowcast)

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23 The National Ocean Service (NOS) Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) collects and distributes observations and predictions of water levels and currents

24 NOAA s PORTS Real-time data helps mariners know how close keels are to sea bottom and how much cargo to load Air Gap

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26 The goal of the Marine Services Program is to provide current and accurate information for decision-making by marine and coastal interests to ensure the safety of life, property and efficiency of operations on the waters

27 Interrogate buoys to obtain derived sea surface temperatures, meteorological information like air temp, sea level pressure, wave height and barometric pressure

28 NODC has several ocean-data Web applications that can be accessed through the Internet

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30 COSPAS-SARSAT Rescues in the United States as of October 17, 2008: 236 At sea, 181 in 52 incidents Aviation, 8 in 5 incidents PLB, 44 in 27 incidents Worldwide Over 24,500 Persons Rescued (since 1982) United States 5,994 Persons Rescued (since 1982) Number of Persons Rescued in the United States in

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32 Current Production System Maintenance Copy ENC New Editions Notice To Mariners Raster Data Weekly Updates Copy ENC Weekly Updates Maintenance Copy Paper and RNC New Editions Vector Data Weekly Updates Copy Paper, RNC, POD Weekly Updates Source Data FUTURE GOALS: Transition from two product lines (raster and vector) to one and move toward detailed products

33 Source Data Nautical Chart System II Product Databases Published Products Notice To Mariners Raster Data NIS RNC ENC Paper Vector Data Data applied one time Updates sent to products Product finishing POD Weekly Updates Consistency among products

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