1. NOAA Office of Coast Survey The Nation’s Chartmaker

2. What is the Coast Survey?
The U.S. national hydrographic office
Formed in 1807
First science agency of the United States
Responsible for surveying and charting 3.4 million square nautical miles
Prepares and maintains 1,000+ nautical charts
Responds to disasters and other emergencies
Develops hydrodynamic models for coastal management
Represents U.S. internationally

3. Fulfilling our National Mandate
“ensure the flow of commerce in a safe, environmentally sound manner”
326 public and private commercial ports
3700 marine terminals
13 million jobs, $1 trillion+ annually to U.S. GDP
95% of U.S. foreign trade travels by ship
12 million cruise passengers
78 million recreational boaters
110,000 fishing vessels

4. U.S. marine transportation system: 25,000 miles of navigable channels
Scope of coverage
U.S. marine transportation system:
95,000 miles of coastline
25,000 miles of navigable channels

5. National Ocean Service Office of Coast Survey
Director: Adm. Gerd Glang
Deputy Director: Kathryn Ries
NOAA IOCM
Coordinator: Ashley Chappell
Program Planning & Management
Chief: Curt Loy
Marine Chart Division
Chief: CDR. Shep Smith
Dep. Chief: John Nyberg
Hydrographic Surveys Division
Chief: Jeff Ferguson
Dep. Chief: Mike Brown
Navigation Services Division
Chief: Capt. Jon Swallow
Acting Dep. Chief: Matt Kroll
Coast Survey Development Lab
Chief: Mary Erikson
Dep. Chief: Maureen Kenny
Raster/Paper Charts
Electronic Navigational Charts
Critical Corrections Update Service
Nautical Data
Quality Assurance, Plans & Standards
Pacific Hydrographic Branch
Atlantic Hydrographic Branch
Data Acquisition
Operations
Navigation Response
Customer Affairs
Coast Pilot
Marine Modeling & Analysis
Cartographic & Geospatial Technology
Hydrographic Systems & Technology
CCOM/JHC
Coordinator: Andy Armstrong
Quick Overview
Mention: Supports Marine Transportation System
$ B in commerce

6. Navigation Product Production
Acquires data
Processes data
Smart phone programs
E-navigation products
Paper charts

7. NOAA Survey Assets Bay Hydro II Silver Spring, MD 2008 Rainier
Newport, OR
1968
Ferdinand R. Hassler
New Hampshire 2012
Fairweather
Ketchikan, AK
1968, 2010
6 Navigation Response Teams
Thomas Jefferson
Norfolk, VA
1992
King Air
2009

8. NOAA is the nation’s provider of navigation products…
Over 300 companies are agents for NOAA’s nautical charts, selling to millions of recreational boaters, commercial fishermen, and maritime pilots
1022 paper / raster charts
966 electronic navigational charts
9 volume “Coast Pilot”
PocketChart™, BookletChart™
1002 Print on Demand charts
Weekly updates
PORTS
Dozens of companies sell systems or software that give mariners access to NOAA’s electronic charts

9. Responding to releases of hazardous materials / oil spills
BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill:
Coast Survey used 1990 ocean mapping surveys to create a digital terrain model of spill site. (Shown here.) Coast Survey recovered multibeam survey data collected during NOAA’s ocean mapping program of the 1990s. The data and the terrain model can be used to improve ocean circulation models and assist in discussions about current spill volume calculations.
During the spill, vessels that passed through oil were required to undergo decontamination before entering ports, which could slow down shipping and produce traffic bottlenecks. NOAA produced a range of charts that displayed the oil spill trajectory based on model estimates.
We organized a survey for a new ship anchorage site at the mouth of the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico for ships to undergo inspection and oil decontamination before entering ports.
NOAA’s response and assessment of the Deepwater Horizon spill included our ships on the water, planes in the air, and oceanographic equipment in the water.  Although many of these platforms weren’t designed to conduct oil spill-specific research, they were quickly re-configured and mobilized to collect a wide variety of data to inform scientific efforts and the recovery and restoration of the Gulf.

10. Speeding the re-opening of ports after hurricanes and other natural disasters
Response teams survey ports and channels, searching for submerged debris
Real-time data guides post- storm response

11. Statistics ~ 250 government employees, ~ 50 contractor employees
$ 90M/year budget
1600 nm2/year government surveying
Klein 5000 Side Scan Sonar
Reson 7125 Multibeam Echosounders
Applanix POS/MV Position and Motion Sensor
1600 nm2/year contract surveying including LIDAR
150/year new paper & raster chart editions
Bentley Maps production system
new ENC editions/year
ESRI production system
Weekly updates for paper and raster charts
Monthly updates for ENCs

12. Statistics Growing suite of web services and products
On-Line chart viewer
ENC Direct to GIS translator
nowCoast real-time data portal
ENC and RNC free downloads (200 Million/year)
Survey Data Distribution
Manuals, Specifications and Standards
Joint Hydrographic Center at Univ.
of New Hampshire (e.g. CUBE)
New interests – Arctic, BathyRadar, Satellite bathymetry, crowd sourcing
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