NOAA ENC Direct to GIS

Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
NOAA's Electronic Navigational Charts (NOAA ENCs) have been developed to support the marine transportation infrastructure and coastal management. The NOAA ENCs are in S-57, a data standard developed by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) to be used for the exchange of digital hydrographic data. NOAA ENCs can be used in Geographic Information Systems, (GIS) allowing for broader public access. Many GIS's, however cannot read an ENC's native S-57 format to address this problem. NOAA's ENC Direct to GIS web portal provides comprehensive access to display, query, and download all available large scale NOAA ENC data in a variety of GIS/CAD formats for non-navigational purposes using Internet mapping service technology. Nautical chart features contained within an NOAA ENC provide a detailed representation of the U.S. coastal and marine environment. This data includes coastal topography, bathymetry, landmarks, geographic place names and marine boundaries. Features in an NOAA ENC are limited in that they only represent the geographic region that is depicted in that particular NOAA ENC. By aggregating nautical features from all NOAA ENCs in the creation of GIS data, a contiguous depiction of the U.S coastal and marine environment is achieved.
Citation
Title NOAA ENC Direct to GIS
alternateTitle  enc_direct
publication  Date   2001
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Contact information
Linkage for online resource
name Citation URL
URL: http://www.s-57.com/
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Description IHO S-57 Object Catalog
cited responsible party -
organisation Name  
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
name Citation URL
URL: http://encdirect.noaa.gov/
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Description Online Resource
Topic Category:  oceans
Keywords:
Theme keywords (theme):
Accuracy of Data
Administration Area Named
Airport Airfield
Anchor Berth
Anchorage Area
Beacon Cardinal
Beacon Isolated Danger
Beacon Lateral
Beacon Safe Water
Beacon Special Purpose General
Berth
Bridge
Building Single
Built Up Area
Buoy Cardinal
Buoy Isolated Danger
Buoy Lateral
Buoy Safe Water
Buoy Special Purpose General
Cable Area
Cable Overhead
Cable Submarine
Canal
Cargo Transhipment Area
Causeway
Caution Area
Coastguard Station
Coastline
Compilation Scale of Data
Contiguous Zone
Control Point
Conveyor
Coverage
Crane
Current Non Gravitational
Dam
Daymark
Deep Water Route Part
Depth Area
Depth Contour
Distance Mark
Dock Area
Dredged Area
Dry Dock
Dumping Ground
Dyke
Electronic Navigational Charts
ENC
Exclusive Economic Zone
Fairway
Fence Wall
Ferry Route
Fishery Zone
Fishing Facility
Fishing Ground
Floating Dock
Fog Signal
Fortified Structure
Gate
Gridiron
Harbour Area Administrative
Harbour Facility
Hulk
Ice
Incineration Area
Inshore Traffic Zone
Lake
Land Area
Land Elevation
Land Region
Landmark
Light
Light Float
Local Magnetic Anomaly
Lock Basin
Log Pond
Magnetic Variation
Marine Farm Culture
Military Practice Area
Mooring Warping Facility
Nautical Publication Information
Navigation Line
Navigational System of Marks
Obstruction
Offshore Platform
Offshore Production Area
Oil Barrier
Pile
Pilot Boarding Place
Pipeline Area
Pipeline Overhead
Pipeline Submarine On Land
Pontoon
Precautionary Area
Produciton Storage Area
Pylon Bridge Support
Quality of Data
Radar Transponder Beacon
Radio Calling In Point
Radio Station
Railway
Rapids
Recommended Route Centerline
Recommended Track
Recommended Traffic Lane Part
Rescue Station
Restricted Area
Retro Reflector
River
Road
Runway
Sand Waves
Sea Area Named Water Area
Sea Plane Landing Area
Seabed Area
Shoreline Construction
Signal Station Traffic
Signal Station Warning
Silo Tank
Slope Topline
Sloping Ground
Small Craft Facility
Sounding
Sounding Datum
Spring
Staight Territorial Sea Baseline
Swept Area
Territorial Sea Area
Tidal Stream Flood Ebb
Tidal Stream Time Series
Tideway
Topmark
Traffic Separation Line
Traffic Separation Schema Lane Part
Traffic Separation Scheme Boundary
Traffic Separation Zone
Tunnel
Two Way Route Part
Underwater Awash Rock
Unsurveyed Area
Vegetation
Vertical Datum of Data
Water Turbulence
Waterfall
Weed Kelp
Wreck
WWHGD
Theme keywords (theme):
Nautical Charting
thesaurus name >
Title NOS Data Explorer Topic Category
Theme keywords (theme):
Boundaries
Environment/Hazard
Hydrography
Landform
Marine Navigation
Oceans
Transportation
Wildlife/Fisheries
thesaurus name >
Title Tri - Service Spatial Data Standard
Location keywords:
U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone
U.S. territories
U.S. waters
dataCenter Keywords
DOC/NOAA/NOS/OCS > Office of Coast Survey, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
thesaurus name >
Title Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
publication  Date   2017-04-24
Edition 8.5
project Keywords
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purpose:
NOAA ENC Direct to GIS Internet Mapping Service is designed to allow for the visualization, querying and downloading of NOAA's Electronic Navigational Chart's (NOAA ENC) data in common Geographic Information System (GIS) formats.
Resource language:  eng; US
Resource progress code:  onGoing
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  weekly
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
use constraint:  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access Constraints: None. | Use Constraints: NOAA ENC Direct to GIS data is not intended for navigational purposes. This data is provided for use in GIS software packages for coastal planning and research. | Distribution Liability: None
Constraints on resource usage:
Security Constraints
Classification  unclassified
Classification System 
Handling Description 
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -179.43
eastBoundLongitude  174.61
northBoundLatitude  65.67
southBoundLatitude  17.57
Temporal Extent
| Currentness: This site is maintained with the latest edition ENC cells through publication date on site. 2001-07-11
Additional information on resource:
The ENC data are available in several different Scale Bands. Update: Band categories 4, 5 and 6 are no longer packaged together: Overview (scale band category 1 = 1:1,500,001 or smaller), General (scale band category 2 = 1:600,001 - 1:1,500,000), Coastal (scale band category 3 = 1:150,001 - 1:600,000), Approach (scale band category 4 = 1:50,001 - 1:150,000) Harbor (scale band category 5 = 1:5,001 - 50,000), and Berthing (scale band category 6 = 1:5,000 or larger) The data are available in either "North American Datum 1927" (Clarke Ellipsoid 1866) or "World Geodetic System 1984" geodetic datums. Object class are listed under Entity Type with each applicable Geometric primitive suffix for point, line and/or area (examples: Built_Up_Area_area and Built_Up_Area_point).
point of contact - pointOfContact
individual Name Nelson, Kurt
organisation Name  Office of Coast Survey
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 301-713-2645 x142
Fax 
Address
, , ,  Country 
electronic Mail Address kurt.a.nelson@noaa.gov
Linkage for online resource
name Website
URL: https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function information
Description Website listed for this contact
hoursOfService 
contact Instructions
point of contact - custodian
individual Name Nelson, Kurt
organisation Name  Office of Coast Survey
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 301-713-2645 x142
Fax 
Address
, , ,  Country 
electronic Mail Address kurt.a.nelson@noaa.gov
Linkage for online resource
name Website
URL: https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function information
Description Website listed for this contact
hoursOfService 
contact Instructions
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Content information: feature catalog description

catalog language  eng
Included With Dataset  false
Compliance Code  false
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Scope of quality information
scope level  dataset
Resource lineage description
Lineage statement
Processing Step
description The NOAA ENC database has been built from a combination of charted information as well as original "source" information. NOAA has compiled critical features such as channel limits, aids to navigation, and obstructions from the original documents that were used to put the feature on the paper chart. The objective is to use the most accurate information for features that are critical to the safety of navigation. NOAA uses a number of sources in compiling NOAA ENCS including U.S. Army Corps of Engineers surveys, drawings, and permits, U.S. Coast Guard Local Notices to Mariner, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Notices to Mariners, NOAA hydrographic surveys, and the largest scale paper chart of an area. ENC Direct to GIS data was created by transforming Approach and Harbor NOAA ENC version 2 cells to ESRI's ArcSDE format using Safe Software's Feature Manipulation Engine.
processing agent contact - processor
individual Name National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey (OCS)
Contact information
Address
electronic Mail Address enc.gis@noaa.gov
QuantitativeAttributeAccuracy
name Of Measure Accuracy
evaluation Method Description  The NOAA ENC Direct to GIS data is derived from NOAA ENC's which conforms to the International Hydrographic Organization Transfer Standard for Digital Hydrographic Data, Special Publication S-57, ENC Product Specification Edition 2.0.
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy
evaluation Method Description  The NOAA ENC Direct to GIS data is derived from data that conforms to the International Hydrographic Organization Transfer Standard for Digital Hydrographic Data, Special Publication S-57, ENC Product Specification Edition 2.0.
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Vertical Positional Accuracy
evaluation Method Description  The NOAA ENC Direct to GIS data is derived from data that conforms to the International Hydrographic Organization Transfer Standard for Digital Hydrographic Data, Special Publication S-57, ENC Product Specification Edition 2.0.
Completeness Commission
name Of Measure Completeness Report
evaluation Method Description  NOAA ENC Direct to GIS data represents current coverage of all published ENC Charts. As new NOAA ENCs and NOAA ENC editions are created they are added to the NOAA ENC Direct to GIS dataset.
ConceptualConsistency
name Of Measure Conceptual Consistency
evaluation Method Description  The NOAA ENC Direct data is derived from NOAA ENC's which conforms to the International Hydrographic Organization Transfer Standard for Digital Hydrographic Data, Special Publication S-57, ENC Product Specification Edition 2.0. NOAA ENC Direct to GIS data has added generalized nautical chart symbology to aid in the visualazition of this data.

Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
individual Name Nelson, Kurt
organisation Name  Office of Coast Survey
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 301-713-2645 x142
Fax 
Address
, , ,  Country 
electronic Mail Address kurt.a.nelson@noaa.gov
Linkage for online resource
name Website
URL: https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/
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link function information
Description Website listed for this contact
hoursOfService 
contact Instructions
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Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
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URL: http://encdirect.noaa.gov/
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Description 
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
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URL: https://encdirect.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/encdirect/enc_approach/MapServer
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link function download
Description 
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name https://encdirect.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/encdirect/enc_berthing/MapServer
URL: https://encdirect.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/encdirect/enc_berthing/MapServer
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Description 
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name https://encdirect.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/encdirect/enc_coastal/MapServer
URL: https://encdirect.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/encdirect/enc_coastal/MapServer
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function download
Description 
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
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URL: https://encdirect.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/encdirect/enc_coverage/MapServer
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function download
Description 
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
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Description 
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
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URL: https://encdirect.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/encdirect/enc_harbour/MapServer
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Description 
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
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Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
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Description 
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
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Description 
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
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Digital Transfer Options
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Description 
Digital Transfer Options
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Description 
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Description 
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
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link function download
Description 
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
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Metadata data stamp:  2018-02-08T17:04:35
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Use Constraints: Disclaimer - While every effort has been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the limits of the current state of the art, NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data, nor as a result of the failure of the data to function on a particular system. NOAA makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty.
Metadata contact - resourceProvider
organisation Name  Office of Coast Survey
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 
Address
1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD, 20910
Linkage for online resource
name Website
URL: https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/
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Description Website for this organization
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
individual Name Nelson, Kurt
organisation Name  Office of Coast Survey
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 301-713-2645 x142
Fax 
Address
, , ,  Country 
electronic Mail Address kurt.a.nelson@noaa.gov
Linkage for online resource
name Website
URL: https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/
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link function information
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contact Instructions
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