NOAA Seamless Raster Navigational Charts (RNC)

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Resource Abstract:
The NOAA Seamless Raster Chart Server provides a seamless collarless mosaic of the NOAA Raster Navigational Charts (RNC). The RNC are a collection of approximately 2,100 charts and inset maps at varying scales and resolutions. Full information on the NOAA RNCs can be found here: http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/. The Seamless Raster Chart Server integrates all charts in a single map service and clips the charts to the extent of the chart, removing the map collar. The set of charts displayed automatically change based on the viewer's scale to provide the most useful chart scale within the view. The charts in the Seamless Raster Chart Server are updated once every month at the beginning of the month to provide the latest Notice to Mariners updates.
Citation
Title NOAA Seamless Raster Navigational Charts (RNC)
alternateTitle  seamless_RNC
publication  Date   2011
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URL: https://seamlessrnc.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/RNC/
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URL: https://seamlessrnc.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/RNC/NOAA_RNC/MapServer
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URL: https://seamlessrnc.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/RNC/NOAA_RNC/ImageServer
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name Citation URL
URL: https://seamlessrnc.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/RNC/NOAA_RNC_Footprints/MapServer
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Description Online Resource
Topic Category:  oceans
Keywords:
Theme keywords (theme):
Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning
hazards
Marine Navigation
mariner
nautical charts
navigation
Ocean Coastal Mapping
ocean-born commerce
oceans
United States Nautical charts
United States Navigational charts
Theme keywords (theme):
Nautical Charting
thesaurus name >
Title NOS Data Explorer Topic Category
Theme keywords (theme):
OceanCommunity
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Title Geospatial Platform
Location keywords:
U.S territories
U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone
U.S. waters
dataCenter Keywords
DOC/NOAA/NOS/OCS > Office of Coast Survey, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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Title Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
publication  Date   2017-04-24
Edition 8.5
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purpose:
This product provides an automatic view of charts within the user's view, automatically choosing appropriate charts and scale without having to download the individual charts from the NOAA Office of Coast Survey.
Resource language:  eng; US
Resource progress code:  completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  monthly
Constraints on resource usage:
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Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
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Other constraints
Access Constraints: None | Use Constraints: Not to be used for navigation. | Distribution Liability: None
Constraints on resource usage:
Security Constraints
Classification  unclassified
Classification System 
Handling Description 
Spatial representation type code:  grid
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -180
eastBoundLongitude  180
northBoundLatitude  81.9
southBoundLatitude  14.4
Temporal Extent
| Currentness: Publication Date 2011-09-01
Additional information on resource:
Once per month, at the beginning of the month, a complete set of all charts and inset maps are processed. Charts are reprojected from their source projection to WGS84 Web Mercator (Auxiliary Sphere) using the GDAL projection libraries. The map collar information is clipped on-the-fly during display using chart boundaries and attributes defined in http://www.charts.noaa.gov/RNCs/RNCProdCat.xml. Chart display order and visibility are determined by through Esri algorithms that display the appropriate chart. Layering is determined by the area of the entire chart and charts with a smaller area are given display order precedence over charts with a larger area.
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/
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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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catalog language  eng
Included With Dataset  false
Compliance Code  false
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Scope of quality information
scope level  dataset
Resource lineage description
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Processing Step
description Once per month, at the beginning of the month, a complete set of all charts and inset maps are processed. Charts are reprojected to WGS84 Web Mercator (Auxiliary Sphere) using the GDAL projection libraries. The map collars clipped on-the-fly during display using chart boundaries defined in http://www.charts.noaa.gov/RNCs/RNCProdCat.xml.
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy
evaluation Method Description  The original raster navigational charts have been automatically projected from their original source projection to the WGS84 Web Mercator (Auxiliary Sphere) projection using GDAL projection libraries.
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Vertical Positional Accuracy
evaluation Method Description  The vertical positional accuracy corresponds to the respective chart information as found at http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/
Completeness Commission
name Of Measure Completeness Report
evaluation Method Description  All raster navigational chart .KAP files produced by NOAA are include in the map service except for 62 table insets that do not have associated geographic referencing information.
ConceptualConsistency
name Of Measure Conceptual Consistency
evaluation Method Description  The information in the chart is accurate to the chart listed in the NTM_DATE attribute of the NOAA Raster Chart Footprints layer.

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/
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function information
Description Website listed for this contact
hoursOfService 
contact Instructions
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name https://seamlessrnc.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/RNC/
URL: https://seamlessrnc.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/RNC/
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function download
Description Online Resource
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name https://seamlessrnc.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/RNC/NOAA_RNC/MapServer
URL: https://seamlessrnc.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/RNC/NOAA_RNC/MapServer
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function download
Description Online Resource
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name https://seamlessrnc.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/RNC/NOAA_RNC/ImageServer
URL: https://seamlessrnc.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/RNC/NOAA_RNC/ImageServer
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function download
Description Online Resource
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name https://seamlessrnc.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/RNC/NOAA_RNC_Footprints/MapServer
URL: https://seamlessrnc.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/RNC/NOAA_RNC_Footprints/MapServer
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function download
Description Online Resource

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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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/
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function information
Description Website listed for this contact
hoursOfService 
contact Instructions
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Metadata language  eng
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Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for imagery and gridded data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:39984

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)