The mid-air collision near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport in January left wreckage scattered throughout the shallow and murky waters of the Potomac. The incident command center needed NOAA Coast Survey's nautical survey expertise to recover everything for the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation. Along with the recent release of the Board's preliminary report, we’re now sharing more details of our emergency response. Read the full timeline of our efforts here: https://lnkd.in/ecpvRUKs
关于我们
NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey (OCS) maintains the nation’s nautical charts, surveys the coastal seafloor, speeds re-opening of ports after hurricanes and other maritime emergencies, and searches for underwater dangers to navigation. Products include electronic and raster navigational charts, navigational data, and the United States Coast Pilot.
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https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov
NOAA Coast Survey的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 政府管理
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- 201-500 人
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- Silver Spring，Maryland
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- 政府机构
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How does a 40ft-draft ship carrying critical liquified natural gas enter the Port of San Juan? ??? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Atlantic Division's Jacksonville District and South Atlantic Division’s Caribbean District dredged (cleared) the navigational area to support drafts up to 44ft. ???Within 24 hours of the Army Corps releasing the updated channel width and depth data, NOAA scientists delivered updated, high-resolution bathymetry (seafloor mapping data). ?? Based on that bathymetry, the U. S. Coast Guard began work to establish navigation buoys to guide ship traffic and bring the large ship to port. See the before and after below. The red line represents the 44ft depth navigable area, which the Army Corps increased by 30 percent. Our colored bathymetry data offers a more granular level of detail; you can see the dark blue (deeper) and light green (shallower) areas shift.
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We have a unique mission that includes some of the most interesting parts of government - balancing economic and environmental needs and delivering tools and services that directly support national security and the public. Dive in to learn more about how we are working for you each and every day: https://lnkd.in/ecGa26Vr
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More than 50 percent of all U.S. grain is exported through the Lower Mississippi River Ports complex. Earlier this week, a Crescent Pilot safely navigated a large grain ship through rain and limited visibility using our electronic navigation charts and updated bridge heights. Modern ships navigate U.S. ports with increasingly tight margins—under their keels, beneath bridges, and within narrow channels. As vessels grow in size and port infrastructure remains the same or experiences limited expansion, the margin for error becomes smaller. Learn more about our work providing precise bridge clearances in New Orleans here:?https://lnkd.in/eqcpjTfj
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NOAA's Office?Coast Survey teams worked around-the-clock to support recent recovery efforts?for the mid-air collision?in the Potomac?River. Read more about our work with the response team below:
We were proud to support response and recovery efforts in the wake of the tragic aircraft collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Learn how we worked with U.S. Coast Guard, National Transportation Safety Board, US Army Corps of Engineers, DC Fire and EMS Department and other partners to locate wreckage, support search and recovery efforts, and ensure safe navigation on the Potomac: https://lnkd.in/ekPrEReG
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As part of our community-driven exploration model, NOAA Ocean Exploration invites members of the science and resource management communities to?submit exploration recommendations??for?mapping and remotely operated vehicle?operations on NOAA Ship?#Okeanos Explorer?in?Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in Spring 2025. Preferred due date for exploration recommendations: March 15, 2025. Learn more:?https://lnkd.in/e7J4MBN8 #ocean #exploration #input
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Happy Birthday, NOAA Coast Survey! 218 years ago today, President Thomas Jefferson signed An Act to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States, and NOAA’s Coast Survey has helped mariners navigate with confidence ever since. Our charting products and services have expanded considerably over the past two centuries–we’re surveying to help reopen ports within days following a disaster, and using uncrewed surface vehicles among countless other examples–but wanted to take this time to look back at nautical charts, then and now. You can look through our comprehensive historical chart archive here - https://lnkd.in/eFbhw7Hs, which includes charts that even pre-date the Coast Survey.
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Happy Birthday, NOAA Coast Survey! 218 years ago today, President Thomas Jefferson signed An Act to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States, and NOAA’s Coast Survey has helped mariners navigate with confidence ever since. Our charting products and services have expanded considerably over the past two centuries–we’re surveying to help reopen ports within days following a disaster, and using uncrewed surface vehicles among countless other examples–but wanted to take this time to look back at nautical charts, then and now. You can look through our comprehensive historical chart archive here - https://lnkd.in/eFbhw7Hs, which includes charts that even pre-date the Coast Survey.
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The NOAA ship fleet has been busy preparing for the 2025 field season. Read more about the work we've been doing and the people supporting our fleet in our latest issue of Shipshape! #SailNOAA
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Explore our BioMapper! This tool allows users to interactively view data, aerial imagery, dive photography, underwater video and related publications developed for the benthic habitat mapping of many U.S. coral reefs, and more than 20 geographic areas. ????? https://lnkd.in/eZz9QPK6 #HabitatMapping #CoralReefs
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