Charting a Course into the Digital Era Guidance for NOAA's Nautical Charting Mission (1994) / Chapter Skim
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7 Resource Constraints: Removing the Barriers
7 Resource Constraints: Removing the Barriers
Pages 57-64
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Resource barriers constrain each of the three major functions of the nautical charting program: data acquisition, data-base management, and product generation and dissemination. Surveying and Data Acquisition As the backlog of survey requests has grown, the number of survey vessels and Be number of days at sea have declined due to budgetary constraints.
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It is, therefore, imperative that NOAA work with other producers and users to ensure that nautical data can be easily exchanged or linked with other data sets as a means for strengthening the overall NOAA nautical data program and nrovirlina ~ m''ltin',mn.c~ digital nautical data base. -- r -- ~~ ~~ ~~~~ r -- ~~~~~~= ~ ~r -- rat Congress attempted to recover the costs of creating, publishing, and distributing nautical charts and the associated data base when it Imposed the data-base maintenance cost recovery requirement (44 USC 1307)
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have been attempted to determine the value of chart products, but ascertaining definitive valuations remains a difficult and uncertain task. Cost recovery (charging users directly for the cost full or partial of producing the product)
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For example, if NOAA supplies raw, certified digital data to private printing ventures that process the data through their own unage production systems to generate chart products, the products might be able to be copyrighted by the private producer since they are not mere photographic copies of NOAA's digital charts and may or may not incorporate additional
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The market incentive to carry some sort of official NOAA approval will lead some firms to work with NOAA in producing their chart products, once NOAA makes available its participation in the kind of collaborative certification procedures and partnerships described in Chapter 6. In summary, cost recovery through royalties, license fees, and user fees is an effective and efficient means for meeting the congressional cost recovery mandate and for improving NOAA's funding for nautical charting.
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This fund, which is substantial, appears to offer a potential resource, however, for making the investments needed to move into the digital era in nautical charting, and NOAA could benefit from investigating alternatives to making the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund resources available to the nautical charting program as additional revenue. If money accumulated in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund in the past cannot be retrieved, NOAA could at least pursue Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund resources that will accumulate in the fund in the future.
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Report prepared by Intercambio Limited for Canadian Hydrographic Survey, Ottawa. Coochey, I
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