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Charting a Course into the Digital Era Guidance for NOAA's Nautical Charting Mission (1994) / Chapter Skim
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... Such data bases serve as the source of electronic charts, which are integral to advanced ship navigation and piloting systems. In the near future it is likely that professional mariners will rely on electronic navigational information systems, providing that legal requirements to carry paper charts are modified to allow the use of a certified electronic chart system in place of paper charts.
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... In adjusting to these changes, NOAA must necessarily establish priorities and make choices regarding the allocation of its Innited resources among the three basic tasks that go into producing nautical charts and information products: collection and certification of survey data; processing and maintenance of a nationally certified nautical information data base; and production and distribution of certified data, charts, and other products. In the course of its investigation the committee concluded that the key to successfully responding to these challenges is for NOAA to focus its nautical charting program activities on the tasks associated with building and managing the nautical information data base and to seek partnerships with the private sector and other federal and state agencies in fulfilling the other components of the nautical charting mission: collection of survey data and product dissemination.
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... Existing Institutional arrangements, regulations, and processes may not be adequate in the future when the task to be completed has evolved into a new form and new technological capabilities make old approaches obsolete.
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  • retained digitally
  • professional mariners

  • necessarily establish
  • chart carriage
  • increasingly useful
  • automated production
  • essential government

  • electronic navigational
  • chart products
  • product information
  • advanced ship
  • successfully responding

  • allow automated
  • larger marine
  • map products
  • maintains nearly
  • graphic products

  • zone planning
  • electronic display
  • chart editions
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