Charting a Course into the Digital Era:

Guidance for NOAA's Nautical Charting Mission

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Size: 152 pages, 8.5 x 11

Publication Year:1994

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Committee on Nautical Charts and Information, National Research Council
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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 ...
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Front Matter	i-xviii
Executive Summary	1-4	(skim)
1 Overview of the Nautical Information System	5-14	(skim)
2 User Needs for Nautical Information	15-22	(skim)
3 Filling the Data Base: Data Collection	23-30	(skim)
4 The Digital Nautical Data Base: From Paper Charts to Electronic Charts and Beyond	31-36	(skim)
5 Nautical Information as a Component of a Marine Geographic Information System	37-44	(skim)
6 Nautical Information Products and Their Dissemination: Toward a New Way of Doing Business	45-56	(skim)
7 Resource Constraints: Removing the Barriers	57-64	(skim)
8 Conclusions and Recommendations	65-72	(skim)
Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members	73-76	(skim)
Appendix B: Other Agencies	77-80	(skim)
Appendix C-1: Nautical Chart and Information Survey	81-96	(skim)
Appendix C-2: Responses to Survey	97-108	(skim)
Appendix D: Workshop on the Future Needs of Users for Nautical Information	109-116	(skim)
Appendix E: Principles of Benefit-Cost Analysis Applied to Surveys	117-120	(skim)
Appendix F: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers	121-124	(skim)
Appendix G: Examples of Uses of Data by State Environmental Agencies	125-130	(skim)
Appendix H: A National Coastal Zone (Shoreline) Data Base	131-133	(skim)

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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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"This [book] is an informative and enlightening study on where charting is today and where it should be going."--Marine Technology Society Journal

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