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Coast Survey Biweekly Newsletter

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End of Traditional NOAA Paper Nautical Chart Production

Recently, NOAA announced the start of a five-year process to end traditional paper nautical chart production. While NOAA is sunsetting its traditional nautical chart products, it is undertaking a major effort to improve the data consistency and provide larger scale coverage within its electronic navigational chart (NOAA ENC®) product suite. Over the next five years, NOAA will work to ease the transition to ENC-based products, such as providing access to paper chart products based on ENC data. The online NOAA Custom Chart prototype application enables users to create their own charts from the latest NOAA ENC data. Users may define the scale and paper size of custom-made nautical charts centered on a position of their choosing. Users may then download, view, and print the output. The application is an easy way to create a paper or digital backup for electronic chart systems.

For further information, please reference the following flyer: HANDOUT FROM MEETING [pdf]

National Data Buoy Center

NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center has a mission to provide quality observations in the marine environment in a safe and sustainable manner to support the understanding of and predictions to changes in weather, climate, oceans and coast.

To learn more about the buoys deployed in our region, or to see the maintenance schedule for buoys, please visit the NDBC here: https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ndbc.shtml