NOAA

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NOAA National Ocean Service Capacity in
Alaska Coasts, Nearshore, Offshore
Kirk Waters NOAA Coastal Services
Center August 2, 2005
Margaret A. Davidson Director NOAA Coastal
Services Center August 2, 2005
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NOS Capacities in Alaska
LIDAR Topography
Shishmaref Kivalina
Ecological Characterization
Kachemak Bay
Hydrographic Surveys
Surface Current Mapping
Cook Inlet
Southwestern Peninsula Prince William Sound
Southeast
Shoreline Mapping
Cape Edgecombe
Chart Updates
Beecher Pass Ketchikan
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Office of Coast Survey Navigation Services and
Marine Chart Divisions

• Alaska regional Navigation Manager working with
  local Coast Guard, harbor safety committees,
  pilots, and recreational groups to address local
  issues.
• Updates to nautical charts
• proposing revisions to the nautical charts of
  Beecher Pass
• chart 17430, Tongass Narrows, Ketchikan has
  been issued
• Seven New Charts and Chart Reconstruction for
  Alaska, in support of increased cruise industry
  activity, private loading facilities, and
  infrastructure.
• Upcoming priorities for Alaska
• fishing ports
• Coast Guard requirements

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Office of Coast Survey Hydrographic Surveys
Division

• Two hydrographic survey vessels assigned to
  projects in Alaska
• During the next three years, these ships will
  survey critical areas in
• Southeast Alaska
• Prince William Sound
• Southwestern Alaska Peninsula
• Other firms under contract to provide
  hydrographic surveying services,

NOAA Ship Rainier
NOAA Ship Fairweather
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Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and
ServicesHigh-Frequency Radar Surface Current
Mapper
Receive Antenna - Nikiski
Radial Component of Current
Signal to Noise Diagnostics
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National Geodetic Survey Geodetic Control

• Defines and manages the national coordinate
  system
• National Continuously Operating Reference Station
  (CORS) Program
• Height modernization

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NGS Shoreline Mapping
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Shoreline Mapping in Alaska with SAR
RTV IFSAR at Kodiak, AK
Intermap IFSAR at Icy Bay, AK
ERIM IFSAR at Castle Cape, AK
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National Geodetic Survey Shoreline Mapping and
Nearshore Hydrography

• Cape Edgecombe, Alaska
• Demonstration Project
• Collect topographic and bathymetric information
  safely and at same temporal scale
• LIDAR can be used to derive shoreline and
  near-shore hydrography in a timely manner
• More information is necessary to attribute
  features (Data Fusion Approach)
• Single platform operation for increased
  efficiency

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CSC Topography and Bathymetry Efforts
CSC Topography and Bathymetry Efforts
Existing LiDAR beach coverage (blue) enlarged
for visualization
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• Uses a geographic information system (GIS) to
  illustrate the descriptions of the ecosystem and
  human dimension.
• Predicts effects of natural and anthropogenic
  variability
• Promotes management, research, and education

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Coastal Observation Technology System (COTS)
NOAA Contribution to Regional Capacity COTS
GEM
Pilot (Competitive) GoMOOS Oregon Health
Sciences Inst. Univ. of South
Florida Coordination (Competitive) GCOOS
SEACORA MARA GLC NANOOS Cen-COOS
SCCOOS AOOS Pilot (Congressional Interest
Items) ACT Wallops/CIT CORMP
Caro-COOPS COMPS WAVCIS SCCOOS CIMT
CI-CORE GEM GoMOOS SCOOP LISICOS
COOA
GoMOOS
COOA
LISICOS
CI-CORE
Wallops
ACT
CIMT
CORMP
SCCOOS
Caro-COOPS
COMPS
WAVCIS
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Alaska Observing Systems
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IOOS Interoperability Prototype
NOAA and ONR earmark recipients collaboration
www.openioos.org
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Regional Ocean Information Systems

• Provide spatial data that decision makers
  need to promote regional approaches to
  resource management
• ocean observations
• physical and biological resources
• management boundaries
• Established for southeast, and in
  development for Gulf of Mexico in response
  to the Ocean Action Plan
• Alaska
• In 2002, resource agencies identified
  information needs that could be met by
  a regional information system

Interactive Mapping
Ocean Planning Information System for the
Southeast