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APPENDIX C-1
NAUTICAL CHART AND INFORMATION SURVEY
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NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
COMMISSION ON ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL SYSTEMS
2101 Constitution Avenue Washington, D.C. 20418
MARINE BOARD
February 17, 1993
MB-93-189
OFFICE LOCATION
Georgetown Facility
Room HA 250
2001 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.
Telephone (202) 334-3119
Telefax: (202) 334-3789
TO:
USERS OF NOAA NAUTICAL CHARTS AND INFORMATION
FROM:
DR. CRAIG E. DORMAN, CHAIRMAN
COMMITTEE ON NAUTICAL CHARTS AND INFORMATION
SUBJECT:
SURVEY OF NAUTICAL INFORMATION NEEDS
At the request of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Marine Board1 has convened a Committee on Nautical Charts and Information to ascertain the needs of mariners and other users for nautical charts and related information products and to identify changing requirements for these products. You (or a member of your organization) are requested to participate in a survey of national needs, trends, and opportunities in nautical charting and information by responding to the enclosed questionnaire.
NOAA produces and maintains nearly one thousand nautical chart editions, plus over four hundred bathymetric charts, nine coast pilots, and numerous miscellaneous supporting publications. Digital chart products, which use a digital data base to produce a chart directly on a video screen, are also becoming increasingly available (although not legally certified at the present time). NOAA's resources for chart updating are not sufficient to update and re-issue each of its many products annually. It is necessary to prioritize the updating process and to determine the appropriate balance between updating existing charts and producing new charts, using objective criteria for making these decisions.
Based on the responses to the attached questionnaire and other information-gathering activities, the Committee on Nautical Charts and Information will prepare a public report that provides guidance to NOAA on priorities for updating charts and producing new charts, and on the role of NOAA in meeting future demands for new kinds of nautical information products using advanced technologies.
A list of the members of the committee conducting this study and the committee's terms of reference are attached for your information. Please call Susan Garbini of the Marine Board staff at 202/334-3119 if you have any questions relating to the project. A return envelope is included for mailing the questionnaire; your response is requested no later than May 31, 1993. Thank you for your assistance.
Enclosures
1
The Marine Board operates under the auspices of the National Research Council and is an independent, official advisor on ocean uses and marine affairs.
The National Research Council is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering to serve government and other organizations
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Nautical Chart and Information Survey
Instructions:
All respondents please complete
section A: Respondent Information and
section B: General Questions.
As appropriate to your specific field of interest, also complete
section C: Mariner Supplemental Questions,
section D: Planner/Researcher Supplemental Questions, or
section E: Data Reseller Supplemental Questions. section F: Supplemental Questions on Electronic Charts
All respondents are requested to review questions in section F and to respond if they have an interest in electronic data.
Please feel free to attach additional comments on the subject of nautical chart and information products, and return the completed questionnaire by February 22, 1993 to:
Susan Garbini
National Research Council
Marine Board
2101 Constitution Avenue
Washington D.C. 20418
phone 202-334-3119
fax 202-334-3789
A. Respondent Information
A1. Name: ______________________________
A2. Affifliation: ______________________________
A3. Address: ______________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
A4. Phone Number: ___________________
Zip Code ____________
Area Code
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B. General Questions
All respondents: please complete the questions in this section. Skip any question that does not apply to your present or potential use of nautical charts and other nautical information products.
B1. In what capacity do you or would you use nautical charts/information? Please check all that apply.
____ recreational boating/fishing
____ real estate
____ commercial fishing
____ scientific research
____ commercial piloting
____ coastal zone planning/policy
____ commercial ferry operations
____ military
____ commercial cargo shipping
____ data repackaging/reselling
____ oil and gas exploration/transportation
____ other (please specify) ___________________
B2. Which of the following regions (U.S. waters) are of direct interest to you? Please check all that apply.
____ Mid-Atlantic
____ Hawaii
____ northeast Atlantic
____ Great Lakes
____ southeast Atlantic
____ Mississippi River system
____ Gulf of Mexico
____ other river system(s) (please specify)
____ northwest Pacific
______________________________________
____ southwest Pacific
____ other (please identify)
____ Alaska
______________________________________
B3. Do you presently use nautical chart/information products?
____ yes
___ no
If no, please skip Questions B4 through B8, and continue with Question B9.
If yes, what kind of nautical chart information products do you use?
government produced
____NOAA/NOS charts
____DMA charts
____foreign charts
commercially produced
____ Chart ''books''
____ EPROM cartridges (electronically programmable memory cartridge)
____CD-ROM scanned charts (electronic data on optical disc)
____other (please specify)
_______________________________________
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B4. If you use commercially produced nautical chart/information products, what are the reasons? Please indicate and rate all that apply. Use "1" for the most important, "2" for the second, etc.
____ cost
____ additional information included
____ size/format of paper product
____ convenience of book format
____digital format
____other (please specify) _______
B5. What other nautical information products do you use?
government produced
____NOAA/NOS Coast Pilots
____NOAA/NOS Tide Tables
____NOAA/NOS Tidal Current Tables
____DMA Sailing Instructions
____USCG List of Lights
____foreign publications
____other (please specify)
commercially produced
____ cruising guides
____ other (please specify)
__________________________________________
__________________________________________
B6. If you use commercial nautical information products other than charts, why do you buy these products?
____ easier to use
____ cost
____ format
____ information not available in government publications (please specify what information)
______________________________________________
____ other reason (please specify)
____________________________________________
B7. Do you update your charts and publications?
____ yes
____ no
If yes, approximately how often?
____ daily
____ monthly
____ weekly
____ annually
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B8. How do you update your charts and publications? Please check all that apply.
____ Coast Guard Notices to Mariners, voice broadcasts
____ Coast Guard Notices to Mariners, local printed mailings
____ NAVTEX (Navigation Text radio receiver)
____ DMA weekly Notices to Mariners
____ DMA Navigation Information Network (NavInfoNet)
____ purchase new chart editions
B9. Do the currently available nautical chart/information products meet all of your needs?
____ yes
____ no
If not, please indicate the deficiencies.
____ information content
____ accuracy
____ currency
____ scale
____ coverage scheme
____ not available on digital media
____ other (please specify)
__________________________________________
__________________________________________
B10. What additional information would you like to see included in the standard chart/information product?
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
B11. What information presently included on charts would you like to see omitted?
________________________________________________
________________________________________________
B12. Do you have any interest in new paper nautical information products?
____ custom paper chart products
____ paper charts on waterproof paper
____ other (please specify)
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
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B13. Do you have any interest in new digital nautical information products?
____vector data sets for navigation information
____raster scanned data sets for navigation information
____custom digital data sets
____other (please specify)
_____________________________________________
B14. Would you purchase such images
____ from NOAA/NOS?
____ from private operations?
B15. How much would you be willing to pay for such images (or data), per standard NOAA chart equivalent?
____ US$ for NOAA/NOS-produced images
____ US$ for privately produced images
Thank you for participating in this survey effort! Your responses will assist the Marine Board in guiding NOAA/NOS and the private sector to better meet the needs of all nautical chart and information users. Please review and respond to supplemental questions as appropriate to your field of interest.
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C. Mariner Supplemental Questions
Please complete the questions in this section only if you use nautical chart and information products for the purpose of navigation.
C1. Type of vessel you normally navigate.
____ sail
____ tug, tow, or push boat
____ power
____ tanker
____ bulk carrier
____ small commercial fishing
____ recreational
____ other (please specify)
____ general cargo
___________________________
C2. Size of vessel you normally navigate.
length over all:
____ under 18 feet
____ 19-30 feet
____ 31-65 feet
____ 65-300 feet
____ over 300 feet
displacement (grt):
____ under 500 tons
____ 500-1500 tons
____ 1500-10,000 tons
____ over 10,000 tons
C3. Years of maritime experience.
____ less than 2 years
____ 2 to 5 years
____ 6 to 10 years
____ more than 10 years
C4. Maritime licenses/certificates held.
____ U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Marine
____ Foreign Merchant marine
____ U.S. Power Squadron Certificate
____ U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Certificate
____ none
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C5. Navigation equipment on your vessel (or that you regularly use) (please check all that apply).
____ magnetic compass
____ GPS (Global Positioning System receiver)
____ gyro compass
____ DGPS (Differential GPS receiver)
____ radio direction finder (RDF)
____ radar
____ NAVTEX receiver
____ ARPA (Automatic Radar Plotting Aid)
____ Loran-C
____ video plotter
____ Omega
____ electronic chart (ECDIS)
____ other ________________________
C6. If you currently use an electronic chart product, does it operate with
____ digital vector data?
____ don't know
____ raster scanned image data?
If you do not currently use an electronic chart product, do you expect to outfit your vessel(s) with such products in the next five years?
____ yes
____ no
____ may be/don't know
C7. What type of navigation do you spend most time and effort on? Please rank all that apply, using "1" for the most common, "2" for the second, etc.
____ oceanic
____ approach
____ inshore
____ harbor
____ offshore
____ river
____ channel/waterway
____ lake
C8. What do you use the chart for? Please rank all uses that apply to you, using "1" for the most common, "2" for the second, etc.
____ route planning
____ route following/monitoring and position plotting
____ avoiding hazards
____ recording trip
____ browse for interesting destinations
____ other (please specify)
______________________________________________________
C9. Comments
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
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D. Planner/Researcher Supplemental Questions
Please complete the questions in this section only if you use, or would like to use, nautical chart and information products for the purpose of planning policy analysis, scientific research, preparing environmental assessments, or other non-navigation activities.
D1. Please describe your line of work.
____ real estate development
____ surveying properties
____ local/state coastal zone planning
____ environmental assessment
____ climate research
____ fisheries research
____ offshore minerals
____ oceanographic research (please specify field)
_________________________________________________________
____ other (please specify)
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
D2. What kind of data do you presently use?
____ bathymetric data, paper-based
____ bathymetric data, digital
____ nautical chart data, paper-based
____ nautical chart data, digital
D3. How do you or would you use these data? Please check all that apply:
____ basis for computer models/simulations
____ graphical presentations and diagrams
____ reference points for measurements/surveys
____ other (please specify)
_______________________________________________________
D4. Comments
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
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E. Data Reseller Supplemental Questions
Please complete the questions in this section only if you use, or would like to use, nautical chart and information products for the purpose of repackaging, reformatting and/or reselling the data.
In answering all of the following questions, assume that NOAA/NOS provides nautical chart data sets to organizations like your own.
E1. Would your company augment the base set obtained from NOAA by display or information layers from other sources?
____ yes
____ no
If yes, please describe: ____________________________
_____________________________________________
E2. Would your company provide users with calculation functions (such as distance, bearing, position fixing, forecasting, etc.) based on the geographic data provided by NOAA?
____ yes
____ no
E3. Recognizing that there are likely to be legal implications for the presentation of inaccurate geographic information, and assuming that NOAA certifies its base data to be accurate, is your company willing to assume liability for the accurate reproduction of the base data, overlays of additional data not sourced from NOAA, and/or any calculations based on the data?
____ yes
____ no
Comments: ___________________________
_____________________________________
E4. Do you expect your company to provide systems based on NOAA data that would be used in critical applications (such as systems that can directly affect public safety, health, or welfare)?
____ yes
____ no
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F. Electronic Charts Supplemental Questions
Please complete the questions in this section if you are familiar with electronic nautical data for display on video screens.
Questions F1-F6 refer to rasterscanned images, in digital format, of NOAA/NOS nautical charts.
F1. If raster scanned images of nautical charts were made available, what would be your format preference?
____ TIF
____ PCS
____ other (please specify) _____________________
F2. What level of resolution would you prefer for raster scanned images?
____ 150 dpi
____ 300 dpi
____ 600 dpi
____ 800 dpi
____ other (please specify) _______________________
F3. What would be your preference for distribution media of raster scanned images?
____ 3.5 inch HD floppies
____ 5.25 inch HD floppies
____ CD-ROM
____ 3M tape cartridge (please specify preferred format, such as QIC-40)
_________________________________________________________
____ other (please specify)
_________________________________________________________
F4. With what application software would you use the raster scanned nautical date? If custom software, please describe its purpose.
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
F5. Would you purchase such images
____ from NOAA/NOS?
____ from private operations?
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F6. How much would you be willing to pay for such images, per standard NOAA chart equivalent?
____ US$ for NOAA/NOS-produced images
____ US$ for privately produced images
Questions F7-F12 refer to digital vectordata sets. You may skip these questions if you are not familiar with the concept of digital vector data.
F7. Would you be likely to buy digital nautical data sets in the "seamless" DX-90 format?
____ yes
____ no
____ may be/don't know
F8. Would you be likely to buy digital nautical data sets available for single standard NOAA/NOS charts?
____ yes
____ no
____ may be/don't know
F9. What distribution media would you prefer for vector digital data sets?
____ 3.5 inch HD floppies
____ 5.25 inch HD floppies
____ CD-ROM
____ 3M tape cartridge (please specify preferred format, such as QIC-40)
________________________________________________________
____ other (please specify)
________________________________________________________
F10. With what application software would you use the vector data sets? If custom software, please describe its purpose?
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
F11. Would you purchase such data sets
____ from NOAA/NOS?
____ from private operations, if based on official NOAA/NOS data?
F12. How much would you be willing to pay for such data, per standard NOAA chart equivalent?
____ US$
F13. Comments
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
End of Questionnaire
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