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How do merchant shipping vessels, research vessels naval ships and submarines safely navigate the world's vast oceans? While modern technologies, sensors, navigational aids, communication tools, GPS etc. play a major role, a lesser-known aspect is the science of Hydrography. It deals with the measurement and description of the physical features of the oceans.
NOAA Begins Transition Exclusively to Electronic Navigation Charts - 01/03/2021 NOAA will begin to implement its sunset plan for paper nautical charts this month, starting with the current paper chart 18665 of Lake Tahoe. After August, NOAA’s electronic navigational chart will be the only NOAA nautical chart of the area. This is the first traditional paper chart to be fully supplanted by an electronic chart as part of NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey Raster Sunset Plan, which includes a new process to notify mariners of the transition from individual paper charts to electronic charts. These...