NOAA: Nautical chart news – March 2018
It is officially spring and Coast Survey is busy providing commercial mariners and recreational boaters with top notch navigation products and services. Here are just a few things we have been up to.
| It is officially spring and Coast Survey is busy providing commercial mariners and recreational boaters with top notch navigation products and services. Here are just a few things we have been up to. |
NOAA releases 2018 hydrographic survey season plans NOAA hydrographic survey ships and contractors are preparing for the 2018 hydrographic survey season. Operations are scheduled for maritime priority areas around the country. Take a look at Coast Survey’s living story map to find out if our ships will be in your region. | Story map of planned NOAA hydrographic survey projects in 2018. |
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Have you visited our website lately? Visit nauticalcharts.noaa.gov and explore the new simplified and mobile-friendly design, making your favorite NOAA charting products easy to find and convenient to use on all platforms. |
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 | | | Sample display of the GoMOFS’s nowcast output of the surface current field and water levels. |
Introducing new Gulf of Maine Operational Forecast System NOAA unveiled the new Gulf of Maine Operational Forecast System (GoMOFS). This system provides users with real-time and forecast data of surface water levels, 3-D fields of water currents, water temperature, and salinity out to 72 hours. GoMOFS predictions support safe and efficient marine navigation, allowing mariners to plan their routes and avoid accidents. The system can also aid in emergency response, ecological applications, coastal management, and harmful algal bloom forecasts. |
NOAA RNC Tile Service displays first ENC-only product NOAA released its 1:12,000 electronic navigational chart ( NOAA ENC®) of the Merrimack River, Massachusetts, in the RNC Tile Service. This is the first time a navigational chart-created solely as ENC product-is included in the tile service. The tile service renders a traditional depiction of the nautical chart for use with GPS-enabled electronic chart systems or other “chart plotter” display systems to provide real-time vessel positioning for recreational mariners. This chart is included in the single chart tile sets and the quilted tile sets both in the online and offline versions. This update to the RNC tile service also includes the ArcGIS Tile Metadata Service, adding support for source chart metadata from within ArcMap and other GIS applications. | The 1:12,000 Merrimack River ENC as viewed in the NOAA RNC Chart Tile Service. The single chart tile set for this area is named 13274K0000_1. |
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| | | Large bulk carrier using the recently extended slip at Port Everglades before the ENC update (top). The ENC update extended the slip length as reflected in ENC cells US5FL32 and US4FL31 (bottom). |
NOAA quickly updates nautical chart, allowing large ships to dock with confidence in Port Everglades NOAA quickly updated an electronic navigational chart ( NOAA ENC®) to accurately reflect the 225-foot expansion of a slip in Port Everglades, Florida. Now at a total length of 1,125 feet, the elongated slip, as depicted in the ENC, allows larger ships to dock with confidence. Port Everglades is one of the top three cruise ports in the world, and is among the most active cargo ports in the United States. Coast Survey used a new data process that allowed the most critical and valuable information to be applied quickly and made available to the end user. |
NOAA navigation response teams wrap up a busy winter on the water NOAA navigation response teams (NRT) conduct hydrographic surveys to update NOAA’s suite of nautical charts. The teams are strategically located around the country and remain on-call to respond to emergencies speeding the resumption of shipping after storms, and protecting life and property from underwater dangers to navigation. Learn about some of the response efforts our NRTs were involved with this past winter: | The center span of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, Florida, was successfully captured via lidar on board a navigation response team vessel. |
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