their properties and regulatory functions or contractors. Is that the case or is there involvement from them? MR. ASLAKSEN: Correct. Theyre primarily from the USGS and the coastal program within the USGS that centers itself out of St. Pete. They do a lot more with the contracting to collect those data for their purposes. They do have a research level system. I think Interior is well represented from the standpoint. And of course all big users of our shoreline product as well. And theres been a lot more depth in interagency for using a consistent shoreline primarily to NOAA because lots of folks are doing different things. But EPA, again we do reach out from the intercoastal mapping standpoint to other agencies as much as we can. But Ive not seen or really had table from the
We just sat there and watched what they experienced with our ENCs. And we had a group of our cartographers on our side and they got to interact with professional mariners. And this was the captain and the first mate in the one case from Alaska Tanker Company. They bring in a 1,200 foot crew carrier from Alaska into Long Beach. They had some real experience in using our charts. And there are a lot of things that mariners dont know about our charts that are frankly stupid. So our conclusion, our takeaway, was that in a lot of case our ENCs are really not that well suited for ECDIS. But our ENCs are fully encoded to meet standards. They are correct. But its the information content. And it turns out that the way people use our chart has really changed. And the information content that
the military to all electronic navigation. And, of course, you know that our navigation managers are involved with the Coast Guard on different levels, but in particular at their Maritime Transportation System Response Units and their Incident Command Centers when weve got circumstances there. Military transition away from paper charts is years. Its going to be a long time coming. And this is why we treat them in a special category. Hopefully, you all recall that we ended production of paper lithographic charts. The military was our largest consumer. So they chose to solve their problem by going to DLA. So weve been engaged at the technical level extensively with NGA and DLA to make sure that we deliver a product that DLA can then reproduce.
the use of the surveying profession and people who want to have precise positioning obviously use OPUS quite a bit. I was wondering. Do you do Google Analytics to keep of the amount of use that it does? MEMBER BLACKWELL: Yes. We have. We have statistics on the number of downloads of course data as well as the number of on our CORS, I mean OPUS Solutions. And actually I wrote a note to myself that maybe the next time I can incorporate some of those usage statistics. Youll see we have quite a number of individuals who are using our data. OPUS is a tool. So its not really an observation system. But certainly the CORS network is an observation system that counts as an observation system and some of the different no-observation things that we report up to and provide. But I can
eHydro. Its a broad issue. There are many items with Army Corps in particular. But I think its a broad issue of effectuating. Wasnt that it? (Laughter.) But making the partnerships. He was talking about new partnerships. But making the partnerships that exist in fact in some way more functional and sort of facilitating partnership on NOAA wide level as opposed to every little project having them. Im just trying to put in some of what we were asked to answer. PERKINS: These feel to me like they are elements of a strategy and not a strategy onto itself and if we can focus on that larger. Weve been told a couple of times we dont need to tell them how to do it. We need to help advise them on what to do. And were a very technical and analytical group here. But I think if we
because thats where our legal support comes from. But if the Administrator of NOAA were to say make it so, they would figure out how to make it so. MEMBER KUDRNA: Yes. Right. And thats what Im suggesting. Maybe our recommendation is an action by the Administrator and to cite a couple examples of where that would be helpful in terms of partnerships, the HUD and the Corps. MEMBER MILLER: I think its almost any other Federal agency that NOAA is not able to take money from. And theres very little cross funding in NOAA. I mean they had trouble taking the money from DoD. I think its a very high level issue, the difficulty of getting funding in those partnerships. MS. MERSFELDER-LEWIS: DOI can readily and easily give NOAA money. Its Army Corps of Engineers and DoD combined