Charting a Course into the Digital Era

Committee on Nautical Charts and Information, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 Overview of the Nautical Information System; 4 2 User Needs for Nautical Information; 5 3 Filling the Data Base: Data Collection; 6 4 The Digital Nautical Data Base: From Paper Charts to Electronic Charts and Beyond; 7 5 Nautical Information as a Component of a Marine Geographic Information System; 8 6 Nautical Information Products and Their Dissemination: Toward a New Way of Doing Business; 9 7 Resource Constraints: Removing the Barriers; 10 8 Conclusions and Recommendations; 11 Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members; 12 Appendix B: Other Agencies; 13 Appendix C-1: Nautical Chart and Information Survey; 14 Appendix C-2: Responses to Survey; 15 Appendix D: Workshop on the Future Needs of Users for Nautical Information; 16 Appendix E: Principles of Benefit-Cost Analysis Applied to Surveys; 17 Appendix F: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; 18 Appendix G: Examples of Uses of Data by State Environmental Agencies; 19 Appendix H: A National Coastal Zone (Shoreline) Data Base