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4 Vision of the Future and How to Achieve It
Pages 30-33

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From page 30...
... The earliest charts of land masses, currents, wind patterns, and a few hand soundings, for example, apprised succeeding generations of seafarers of the conditions and hazards their predecessors had encountered. With advancing knowledge of the positions and movements of heavenly bodies, expert sailors using astrolabes (the predecessors of sextants)
From page 31...
... Coordinated National Policy on the Maritime Information Infrastructure At least four federal agencies are currently responsible for various types of information and data critical to the navigation of vessels. USACE is responsible for channel maintenance and inland waterway operation, including locks on federal systems; NOAA is responsible for hydrographic surveys, charts, bathymetric data, Coast Pilot information, and weather information; the USCG is responsible for aids to navigation, Notices to Mariners, navigational broadcasts, List of Lights, and VTS; and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency is responsible for rebroadcasting some information from Notices to Mariners, keeping track of mobile drilling rigs and acts of violence directed against shipping, the Navigation Information Network, and sailing directions.
From page 32...
... Responsible parties should move forward expeditiously with the development, especially in the international arena, of technical standards and carriage requirements for essential navigational technology, including ECDIS and AIS. The federal government has sole authority to act on behalf of the nation in setting international standards.
From page 33...
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