Coast Survey Library Many of these publications are in a Portable Document Format (PDF). To read and print a PDF document, you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader software installed on your PC. Adobe Systems, Inc. permits the Office of Coast Survey and other organizations to offer this software to the public free of charge. You can download the Adobe Acrobat Reader version suitable for your system by clicking on the Adobe button below. Remember to enable the "Load to Disk" capability of your browser prior to downloading the Adobe Acrobat Reader. After you download the Adobe Acrobat Reader, return to this page and download the File. AWOIS Users Guide This user's guide provides information for interpreting data that is listed in the Automated Wreck and Obstruction Information System (AWOIS) database, containing approximately 10,000 submerged wrecks and obstructions in the coastal waters of the United States. To view this document click here Behind the Accuracy of Electronic Charts This article (reformatted) appeared in Sea Technology - March 2001 Issue. What Every Mariner Should Know about Electronic and Paper Charts. By Captain Nick Perugini. To view this document click here Coast Pilot The United States Coast Pilot consists of a series of nautical books that cover a variety of information important to navigators of coastal and intracoastal waters and the Great Lakes. Issued in nine volumes, they contain supplemental information that is difficult to portray on a nautical chart. To view this document click here "The Coastline of the United States" This brochure, published in 1975, "The Coastline of the United States," contains an official listing of the lengths of general coastline and tidal shoreline. To view this document click here Data Management Systems for Digital Side Scan Data and Shallow Water Multibeam Data Written by Gardner, Glang, Noll and Jacobs, this Paper was presented in Plymouth, England, at the HYDRO '99 Conference, the 11th Biennial Symposium of the Hydrographic Society, January 5-7, 1999. To view this document click here Distances Between U.S. Ports This publication contains distances from one U.S. port to another U.S. port and from Great Lakes ports to Canadian ports on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. To view this document click here Hydrographic Surveys Specifications and Deliverables This document provides the required technical specifications for hydrographic surveys undertaken either by NOAA field units or by organizations under contract to the Director, Coast Survey, National Ocean Service, NOAA, or the United States Department of Commerce. To view this document click here International Hydrographic Survey Standards Written by Gerald B. Mills, this paper was published in the "International Hydrographic Review," LXXV(2), September 1998. To view this document click here Marine Transportation System General Presentation In this presentation Captain Dave MacFarland offers many examples, explaining how every U.S. citizen relies on the Marine Transportation System for energy delivery, exports, transportation, cost-effective consumer goods, recreation, environmental protection and much more. To view this document click here Download this presentation (48mb) Hydrographic Survey Priorities This NOAA developed National Survey Priorities addresses current trends in maritime navigation and supports NOAA's Promote Safe Navigation and interagency Marine Transportation System initiatives. To view this document click here Nautical Charting Plan This NOAA developed Nautical Charting Plan addresses current trends in maritime navigation and supports NOAA's Promote Safe Navigation and interagency Marine Transportation System initiatives. To view this document click here Nautical Charts and GPS (originally a brochure) With the advent of the Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) and, in United States waters, the U.S. Coast Guard's Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS), mariners are now capable of navigating ships with much greater accuracy than previously possible. To view this document click here Navigation Services NOAA's Role in a Safe and Efficient Marine Transportation System In this PowerPoint presentation, Captain Roger L. Parsons, NOAA provides us a look at the role NOAA plays in safe and efficient Marine Transportation. We take a look at the Nation's Marine Transportation System and how NOAA's navigation services contributes to and impacts our Nation's marine transportation system. To view this document click here New Technology for Shallow Water Hydrographic Surveys Written by Andrew A. Armstrong, Lloyd C. Huff and Gerd F. Glang with additional excerpts from a paper by Gary C. Guenther, Thomas J. Eisler, Jack L. Riley and Steven W. Perez; published in the "International Hydrographic Review," LXXV(2), September 1998. To view this document click here NOAA Contractor Partnership:  How NOAA Uses Private Industry to Support Nautical Charting Written by Samuel P. DeBow Jr., C.Brian Greenawalt and Jeffrey Ferguson, published in the "International Hydrographic Review," Volume No. 1 (New Series), July 2000. To view this document click here Safe Passage Into the 21st Century (Brochure) A full-color brochure (reformatted for the web) describing the modernization of NOAA's navigational services. Read about real-time tide and current systems, differential global positioning systems, modern surveying technologies, sustainable coastal development and many more relevant topics necessary to promote safe navigation. To view this document click here Text only version Shore and Sea Boundaries by Aaron L. Shalowitz (Vol. 1 and 2) and Michael W. Reed (Vol. 3) This three volume publication summarizes the technical and legal aspects of determining maritime boundaries in the U.S., particularly with respect to the use of data acquired by the Office of Coast Survey and its predecessors. To view this document click here