Nautical Charting Plan

Office of Coast Survey │ Marine Chart Division

June 2024
 Dedicated to the memory of our friends and fellow cartographers.
Ken Forster ~ Rolland Gant ~ Gerry Koehl ~ Kenny O’Dell

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Introduction and Scope
President Thomas Jefferson created the U.S. Survey of the Coast in 1807 to provide nautical charts to support safe
shipping, national defense, and demarcation of maritime boundaries for the young nation. Two centuries later, The
Office of Coast Survey—now an office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National
Ocean Service (NOS)—continues to provide navigation products and services that ensure safe and efficient maritime
commerce on America’s oceans and coastal waters, and in the Great Lakes.
This edition of the NOAA Nautical Charting Plan describes Coast Survey’s continuing efforts to meet the needs
of mariners and other users of nautical chart data into the future. This document supersedes the 2017 National
Charting Plan and the 2019 Sunsetting Traditional NOAA Paper Charts documents. It also incorporates some of the
content of the Transforming the NOAA ENC document, other parts of which will be compiled into a new NOAA ENC
Design Handbook.

Summary
The focus of this plan, as with the previous charting plan, is the transition from the production and use of paper
nautical charts to the production and use of NOAA electronic navigational charts (NOAA ENC®). NOAA is accomplishing
this transition by shutting down production of traditional paper nautical charts to enable devoting additional
resources to rescheming and improving ENC charts. Over half of NOAA’s traditional paper nautical charts have
now been canceled and over 20% of the new ENC cells that will replace legacy data in a new rectangular grid have
been released. Several enhancements to the ENC are also underway, including the adoption of a new ENC product
specification that will enable the integrated display and use of many other types of ancillary information.
The NOAA Nautical Charting Plan provides updated information on these initiatives:
• Ending production of NOAA traditional paper and raster nautical chart products and services by January 2025.
• Rescheming and enhancing NOAA ENC coverage to create about 7,200 new (often larger scale, more detailed)
ENC cells. The initial gridding phase is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2026. Ultimately, rescheming will
improve the data available to mariners and facilitate the conversion of ENCs into the new S-101 format.
• Recompiling ENC depth contours and depth areas from feet and fathoms to meters. Also adding topographic
contours and roads to ENCs.
• Enhancing the NOAA Custom Chart application that enables users to create customized paper charts directly from
NOAA ENC data and to save and share custom charts in a personal chart catalog.
• Changing the frequency and format used by the U. S. Coast Guard for Local Notices to Mariners and NOAA
notification of updates to ENCs.
• Rules and regulations for carriage of ENCs, including new rulemaking by the U.S. Coast Guard.
• Developing new products based on the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-100 Universal
Hydrographic Data Model.
• Transitioning production from the ENC format specified in the IHO S-57 standard to the new IHO S-101 ENC
Product Specification and starting a dual product distribution capability by 2026.
• Transitioning from large scale High Definition ENCs to IHO S-102 Bathymetric Surface data by the end of 2025.
• ENC data display services and Geographic Information System (GIS) compatible data download options to provide
a base map for a wide variety of non-navigational uses.
• Future edition of U.S. Chart No. 1, a document that describes the symbols used on nautical charts produced by
NOAA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

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End of Traditional Paper Nautical Chart Production
In a November 2019 notice in the Federal Register, NOAA announced the sunsetting of its traditional paper and raster
nautical chart products. Ending traditional chart production has enabled NOAA to devote more resources to improving
the electronic navigational chart (NOAA ENC®) product suite, discussed in the Rescheming Electronic Navigational
Charts section. Cancellation of the first of NOAA’s 1007 paper nautical charts started in 2021. About 30 charts per
month are being taken out of production and the entire product line will be shut down by January 2025.
Six months before a chart is canceled, NOAA updates the chart with a note in the lower left corner stating the chart’s
status as a “last edition” and the date on which it will be canceled, as shown in Figure 1. Concurrently, the U.S. Coast
Guard issues a Local Notice to Mariners to announce that no new editions of the chart will be published and the date
it will be canceled. The NOAA Chart Dates of Latest Editions webpage has a list of all canceled charts and a list of
pending chart cancellations.

Figure 1. Example of a last edition note.

Other NOAA raster products that are based on the paper chart images are also being canceled when the
corresponding paper chart is canceled. These are:
• Raster navigational charts (NOAA RNC®)—full-size, geo-referenced, digital images of NOAA paper nautical
charts. These are sometimes referred to as “BSB format” charts and are compatible with some electronic chart
display systems.
• Full-size nautical chart PDF images—full-size, geo-referenced, digital images of NOAA paper nautical charts in
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
• BookletCharts™—reduced-size replicas of standard NOAA paper nautical charts, divided into a dozen or more 8.5"
x 11" pages.
The RNC Tile Service, Seamless RNC Service, and Online RNC Viewer, which provided ways to display raster chart
images in third-party applications or online web maps have been shut down. These have all been replaced with similar
services that display ENC data, discussed in the ENC Display Services section.
More information is available on NOAA Coast Survey’s Farewell to Traditional Nautical Charts webpage.

Archived canceled charts and Training charts

Suitable for framing or as a historical reference, previous editions of all NOAA charts—including canceled last
editions—may be downloaded for free from the NOAA Historical Map and Chart Collection. Nautical charts, other
maps, and documents, such as the U.S. Coast Pilot®, dating back to the mid-1800s are included in the collection.
Traditional training charts are “frozen in time” and are used in many mariner training and testing institutions. Training
chart numbers include a “TR” suffix, such as 1210TR, “Martha’s Vineyard to Block Island” and are marked, “For
instructional purposes only. Not to be used for navigation.” The Historical Map and Chart site has a direct link to
Training Charts and paper copies may also be purchased from many commercial providers for about $10.

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Rescheming Electronic Navigational Charts
In the early 1990s, NOAA began digitizing paper nautical charts to create a new digital chart product, the electronic
navigational chart. ENCs are vector data sets that support all types of marine navigation. Originally designed for large
commercial vessels using a sophisticated navigational computer called an Electronic Chart Display and Information
System (ECDIS), ENCs are now also used on simpler electronic chart systems and “chart plotters” on many types of
ships and recreational vessels. ENCs enable real-time ship positioning, as well as collision and grounding avoidance
with ECDIS and some other electronic chart displays. The first NOAA ENC was released to the public in 1993. The scale
and limits of each ENC chart (also called a cell) were inherited directly from its corresponding paper chart. Separate
ENCs were also created for most paper chart insets. Ultimately, the ENC product suite grew to over 1,200 irregularly
shaped ENC cells, compiled in over 100 scales.

Paper and Digital Chart Schemes

The arrangement or layout of a set of chart “footprints” is called a chart scheme. The scheme for traditional paper
nautical charts is devised with charts at various scales for different navigational purposes. The smallest scale (least
detailed) “Overview” and “General” charts are used for basic voyage planning. The largest scales (most detailed)
“Harbor” and “Berthing” charts are used for navigating into harbor and maneuvering to a pier, respectively. The
orientation, scale, and paper size used for any given paper chart was determined by its intended purpose and the
nature of the area that the chart covered.
Mariners generally use one paper chart at a time and replot a ship’s position from one chart to the next as their ship
nears the area portrayed at the chart edge. Therefore, the area covered on adjoining charts overlaps to provide room
to transfer one’s position before running up against the edge of the chart. Paper chart schemes strive to position
chart footprints so that dangerous passages and other key navigational features are not near the edge of the chart
and harbors are not split across two charts. Although most paper chart scales are at even breaks, such as 1:50,000,
1:100,000, 1:200,000, etc., quite a few have odd scales, such as 1:210,668. These odd scales are usually the result of
“squeezing” the area covered within a given paper size to include important harbors or other significant features that
are at opposite sides of a chart. This is one reason why NOAA’s paper chart suite consisted of so many different scales.
Many of the characteristics of a good paper chart scheme are not applicable for digital chart schemes. ENCs also have
a set of six scale bands for different navigational purposes, as shown in Table 1, but none of the other considerations
described above are necessary for a digital chart scheme. While paper charts are essentially used one at a time,
adjoining ENCs are presented in a seamless manner on electronic navigation systems with no overlap. Because
adjacent charts are displayed side-by-side, even small differences in the compilation scale of each adjoining ENC cell
can be noticeable. This is especially true if there are differences in the number of depth contours depicted or there are
minor variations in the manner in which shorelines or other linear features are compiled in adjacent ENC cells.

Table 1. Standard scales used in reschemed ENCs

Band Number ENC Usage Band Name Reschemed ENC Scale
1:10,000,000
1 Overview
1:3,500,000
1:1,500,000
2 General
1:700,000
1:350,000
3 Coastal
1:180,000
1:90,000
4 Approach
1:45,000
1:22,000
5 Harbor
1:12,000
1:4,000
6 Berthing
1:2,000

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The new ENC scheme uses only 12 scales, two for each of the six usage bands. NOAA initially used a slightly different
set of scales for rescheming. However, after the IHO finalized the minimum and maximum display scales defined in
the new S-101 ENC Product Specification, the standard IHO scales shown in Table 1 were adopted and NOAA is now
migrating all ENCs to one of these scales.
Use of standard scales will reduce discontinuities across adjoining ENCs and make maintenance of the product suite
easier. Fewer scales will also improve the display of ENCs in ECDIS and other navigation systems, as well as the output
of the NOAA Custom Chart application and online ENC Display Services, enabling a seamless display of data without
jarring scale shifts.
Reschemed ENCs will also show a greater level of detail. Over two-thirds of the cells in bands 1, 2, and 3 and over half
of the cells in bands 4 and 5 will be at a larger scale than the coverage available in the original ENC scheme.
NOAA has started rescheming ENCs, replacing the irregular cell footprints and scales inherited from paper charts, with
a regular gridded layout of cells. There is one exception for a few dozen band 6 ENCs. Like all other legacy ENCs, the
current band 6 ENCs—which were generally created from large scale paper chart insets of isolated harbors—will be
reschemed into one of two standard scales for their band. However, reschemed band 6 ENCs will retain their original
shape and size. Most of these legacy band 6 ENC cells are rectangular, but none of them fit into the standard rectangular
grid established for reschemed ENCs. However, they may be transitioned into the standard grid in the future.
An example of reschemed band 4 cells is shown in Figure 2. Typically, several cells in the new rectangular grid fit inside
the footprints of the older cells that they are replacing. The smaller size of the reschemed cells enables more efficient
ENC production and distribution processes, as well as quicker loading and display of the ENC data.

Figure 2. Comparison of the old (red outlines) and new (blue rectangles) ENC band 4 schemes for the Great Lakes

Phases of the ENC Rescheming Process

The rescheming of each legacy ENC cell is accomplished in several phases, shown in Figure 3. When a reschemed ENC
cell is released to the public, it reflects changes and improvements made during one or more of these phases, which
may be applied in various orders and combinations.

Figure 3. General progression of rescheming process. Gridding always occurs first,

metrification usually occurs next, but not always.

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Gridding
This is the essential first step in which the first edition of a new, reschemed ENC cell is created. The extent of the new
rectangular cell is established—based on specifications in NOAA’s Marine Chart Division, Nautical Chart Manual—and the
appropriate data for the scale of the ENC is extracted from the ENC production database to populate the new cell. If the
scale of the old ENC and the new ENC are the same, this is a relatively simple process. If the scale of the reschemed cell is
different, then additional data compilation, generalization and edge matching procedures must be undertaken.

Metrification
Nearly all of NOAA’s paper nautical charts had individual
soundings and depth contours compiled in feet or fathoms.
The IHO S-57 product specification for ENC requires depths
and depth contours to be encoded in meters. When ENCs
were initially created, the unit conversion from feet and
fathoms to meters was accomplished during the chart
digitization process. Soundings deeper than 30 meters
are encoded and displayed in full (integer) meter values;
shallower soundings are encoded and shown as meters and
tenths of meters (decimeters) using a subscript.
Figure 4 shows an area of ENC coverage in which the depth
contours in the top portion are compiled in feet. The four
contours for 6, 12, 18, and 30 feet are displayed in their
metric equivalents—rounded down to the nearest tenth. The
Figure 4. All depth contours in this image are displayed in
bottom portion shows newly “metrified” contours compiled
meters. The contours in the area at the top were compiled for
6, 12, 18, and 30-foot intervals. The contours in the area at the for 2, 5, 10, and 15 meters. Ultimately, reschemed ENCs will
bottom are typical for 1:20,000 scale reschemed ENCs, compiled show the even meter contours specified for S-57 and S-101
for 2, 5, 10, and 15-meter intervals. ENCs. For a 1:10,000 harbor scale, band 5 ENC cell, the meter
depth contours could be as dense as 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15,
20, 30, 50, 100, 150, 200, 300, etc., for areas with a gently sloping seabed. Steeper areas will show fewer contours.
Since reschemed ENCs will often be at a larger scale than the ENCs they are replacing, there will likely be a greater
density of depth contours. This enhances the safety of navigation, not only by providing mariners with a more
accurate depiction of the sea floor, but also enabling an ECDIS and other electronic navigation systems to initiate
automatic alarms and other indications of dangers more suitable to a vessel’s specific draft.
Based on a mariner’s entry of their ship’s “safety contour” value—ship draft plus a safety factor for under keel
clearance and to account for squat—an ECDIS will tailor the display of shallow water, route planning feedback, and
alarms initiated while underway to suit a particular ship. If the safety contour value entered into an ECDIS is not in
the available ENC data, the system will select the next deeper contour available in the ENC for the safety contour that
is used to initiate alarms. The fewer depth contours that are available in the ENC data, the greater chance there is of
an ECDIS “taking away safe water” from the ship in the navigation system, because the system must select a deeper
contour to use as the “safety contour.” More depth contours in the ENC data allows an ECDIS to more closely tailor its
responses to the actual characteristics of any given ship.
Recompiling new metric depth contours requires interpolating even meter depth values between soundings, but
the distribution of soundings shown on nautical charts is not dense enough to accomplish this. New metric contours
are compiled from NOAA’s National Bathymetric Source. This is high-resolution bathymetry composed of the best
available historic and newly acquired data from NOAA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hydrographic surveys, and
other sources. The National Bathymetric Source combines these sources into one nationwide model of the seafloor.
Ultimately, all reschemed ENCs will show even meter contours. Having metric depths will provide uniformity with ENC
data provided by all other ENC producing nations over their own waters and international waters. Many ECDIS and
other electronic navigation systems enable users to toggle the display of depth units between meters and feet.

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Transportation Features and Topographic Contours
Traditional paper nautical charts show roads, railroads, and topographic contours. Most ENCs do not show these
features, but they are now being added in the final phase of ENC rescheming. Transportation network features and
topography can provide a valuable reference for mariners, especially in remote areas where few other landmarks exist.
Figure 5 shows transportation features and topographic contours on a reschemed ENC.

Figure 5. Portion of reschemed ENC Cell US5PHLFJ showing a dark brown urban tint near Trenton,
NJ, roads and highways in thick brown lines, and a few topographic contours in thinner brown lines.

Tracking Rescheming Progress

The reschemed ENC product suite is expected to comprise 7,260 cells across the six ENC usage bands. NOAA is adding
additional resources to the gridding process and expects to complete gridding the entire suite by the end of 2026.
Cartographic practice normally calls for compiling data by applying increasing levels of generalization from the largest
to smallest scales. Thus, the rescheming process is generally starting with the largest scale ENCs—usage bands 6, 5,
and 4—and will successively rescheme the ENC cells in bands 3, 2, and finally band 1. Table 2 shows the estimated
number of reschemed ENCs in each usage band.
Table 2. Estimated final number of reschemed ENCs to be created
in each usage band
ENC Usage Estimated number of
Band Number
Band Name reschemed cells
1 Overview 21
2 General 93
3 Coastal 351
4 Approach 2,385
5 Harbor 4,388
6 Berthing 22

The new scheme for all NOAA ENCs is shown on the Status of New NOAA ENCs web map, which also shows the
ongoing progress of creating new reschemed ENC cells. Much of the early efforts were focused in New York and the
New England states. Work is now proceeding in all parts of ENC coverage.

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NOAA Custom Chart application
The NOAA Custom Chart (NCC) application is an online application that enables users to create their own customized
nautical charts directly from the latest official NOAA ENC data. An example of a custom chart is shown in Figure 6.
NOAA and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) both advise mariners to use ENCs and a digital chart display as their primary
means of navigation. Charts output by the NCC application can be used to augment the use of ENCs and are suitable
as a backup, for general situational awareness, and smaller scale charts are also useful for overall route planning. NCC
charts are not recommended as the primary chart for navigation.
The application outputs geospatially referenced Portable Document Format (PDF) files using the paper size, scale, and
chart location parameters input by the user. Users may save and share their chart parameters in a “personal chart
catalog,” which makes it easy to recreate an updated version of the same chart whenever new ENC data is available.
NCC charts do not have numbers and USCG Local Notice to Mariners will not be issued for NCC charts. However, NOAA
is developing a new version of the Weekly Chart Update website that will enable NCC users to input chart parameters
from a personal chart catalog to quickly identify all the changes that have been made to the applicable ENC data since
the NCC chart was last updated.

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Generation Date: 7/5/2023 CAUTION
HEIGHTS AUTHORITIES AIDS TO NAVIGATION RADAR REFLECTORS
Page Size: ANSI E - 34 x 44 inch (Landscape) Heights of fixed aids to navigation and vertical clearances of Consult the U.S. Coast Guard Light List for Radar reflectors have been placed on many
AUTOMATED CHART GENERATION Hydrography and topography by the National Ocean Service,
overhead obstructions will be shown in feet if the units are set to feet supplemental information concerning aids to floating aids to navigation. Individual radar
Coast Survey, with additional data from the Corps of Engineers,
This NOAA Custom Chart has been automatically or fathoms. If units are set to meters, heights will be shown in meters. Geological Survey, U.S. Coast Guard and National Geospatial- Projection Information navigation. reflector identification on these aids has been
omitted from this chart.
rendered from NOAA Electronic Navigational Chart Land elevation values are shown in meters only. Intelligence Agency. WGS 1984 World Mercator (Calculated)
(NOAA ENC®) data. Mariners using this NOAA Custom CAUTION
Chart are advised that this is a static reproduction of
WARNING
POLLUTION REPORTS SCALE 1:15000 at Lat. 44°6.94' Temporary changes or defects in aids to CAUTION FAT H O M S
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
The prudent mariner will not rely solely on any single aid to
the NOAA ENC®. This NOAA Custom Chart has not
navigation, particularly on floating aids. See U.S. Coast Guard Light Report all spills of oil and hazardous substances to the National GCS WGS 1984 navigation are not indicated on this chart. See Limitations on the use of radio signals as
FEET
6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 60 66 72 78 84 90 96 102
been individually quality checked or adjusted for Local Notice to Mariners. aids to marine navigation can be found in the
List and U.S. Coast Pilot for details. Response Center via 1-800-424-8802 (toll free), or to the nearest
optimal use for navigation. The portrayal may be at a During some winter months or when U.S. Coast Guard Light Lists and National
U.S. Coast Guard facility if telephone communication is impossible METERS
different scale from that of the original NOAA ENC®. CAUTION endangered by ice, certain aids to navigation Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Publication 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
(33 CFR 153).
Mariners are advised to use caution when using this CHART UPDATES Additional information can be obtained at [Link]. are replaced by other types or removed. For 117.
NOAA Custom Chart for navigation and are WATER LEVELS, CURRENTS, AND TIDES details, see U.S. Coast Guard Light List. Radio direction-finder bearings to
This NOAA Custom Chart contains up-to-date information only as of
encouraged to use the latest NOAA ENC® to access Nautical Miles commercial broadcasting stations are subject
the time of creation, and will become outdated. Mariners are advised Real-time water levels, tide predictions, and tidal current
the most up-to-date information. Mariners must also to error and should be used with caution.
to visit [Link] to check predictions are available on the internet from NOAA’s Center for
comply with all applicable regulatory requirements. 0 0.15 0.3 0.45 0.6
for weekly updates, and to render a new NOAA Custom Chart when Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) at Meters NOAA encourages users to submit inquiries, discrepancies, or comments about this chart
information is updated. Notices to Mariners are not issued for [Link] and https:// via NOAA's ASSIST tool at [Link] .
corrections to this NOAA Custom Chart. 0 360 720 1,080 1,440 To ensure that this chart was printed at the proper scale, the line above should measure six inches (152 millimeters).
[Link]/currents_info.html .

Figure 6. NOAA Custom Chart of Fox Islands Thorofare, Maine.

NCC charts look a little different than traditional paper nautical charts (Figure 7). They are composed in a standard
rectangular format featuring a single chart panel; that is, there are no chart insets. The data inside the chart panel is
presented in a manner similar to traditional paper nautical charts, showing shoreline, soundings, buoys, beacons and
other aids to navigation, compass roses and the like, although some chart symbology may differ slightly. A graphic
and a representative-fraction scale, and other marginalia appear below the chart panel. Separate 8.5" x 11" PDF
pages contain notes and a zone of confidence diagram, similar to the survey source diagrams seen on traditional
nautical charts.

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 Figure 7. Traditional NOAA Paper Chart 13308 of Fox Islands Thorofare, Maine.

Chart Updates
USCG Local Notice to Mariners
The USCG does not issue chart corrections in the Local Notices to Mariners (LNM) for canceled charts. By 2025,
all traditional NOAA paper nautical charts will be canceled and the “Chart Corrections” section of the LNM will be
replaced with an “Aids to Navigation Changes” section. Additional changes being implemented as part of the Coast
Guard’s LNM modernization program include replacing the “General” section with a new “Categories of Information”
section. This will include notifications of various types, including “Hazards to Navigation.” USCG will also increase the
frequency of LNMs from weekly to daily.
Notifications of changes in the LNM will no longer be grouped by NOAA chart numbers. Instead, the general location
of changes will be indicated by “waterway names,” in addition to the precise geographic coordinates (latitude and
longitude) for each feature or area. The Waterway Harmonization Project developed consistent names and geographic
definitions for navigable waterways in the United States. This allows the principal agencies managing coastal and
inland waters, the USCG, NOAA, and the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers to share data about navigational aids and other
information more efficiently and precisely. This will also enable improving the geographic representation of waterways
across the federal government. NOAA is also removing paper chart numbers and ENC names from its U.S. Coast Pilot
sailing directions and replacing the references with harmonized waterway names.

NOAA ENC Product Updates

NOAA’s Weekly Chart Updates web map provides information about critical and routine updates made to NOAA ENCs
and paper nautical charts for any given single week. This online service will continue until all NOAA paper charts are
canceled on or before January 2025. A new update service is being developed that will provide users with a list of all
changes to NOAA ENC data for a particular area over a range of several weeks or months. Users will be able to query
the updates database by ENC cell name, waterway, USCG District and Sector, or over the footprint of a NOAA Custom
Chart for which an NCC personal chart catalog entry has been created.

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ENC Related Regulations
There are many federal and international regulations pertaining to marine navigation. The three types discussed
below are especially significant as they explicitly require or promote the use of ENCs over paper nautical charts. These
regulations contributed to NOAA’s decision to discontinue its production of paper charts and to focus on improving
ENC coverage in U.S. waters.

ECDIS and ENCs Required on most International Voyages

The International Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) is the primary international treaty regulating the
safety of merchant ships, first adopted in 1914 in response to the Titanic disaster. Chapter V, Regulation 19 of the
current version of SOLAS requires all newly built passenger ships of 500 gross tonnage and larger, as well as tankers
and newly built cargo ships of 3,000 gross tonnage and larger, that are on international voyages to be fitted with an
Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) and to use official ENCs from the authoritative hydrographic
office for the waters in which they operate. An ECDIS is used for voyage planning, as well as voyage monitoring while
underway by showing the real-time position of a ship within an ENC chart display. ECDIS is integrated with other ship
sensors, such as global positioning systems (GPS), automatic identification systems (AIS), radar, gyro compass, echo
sounder, and ship’s log. NOAA has ENC coverage of all U.S. waters to support ECDIS use.

Optional use of ENCs on U.S. Domestic Voyages

In 2016, the U. S. Coast Guard published Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular (NVIC) 01-16, which provides
guidance on electronic navigation information, equipment and practices. Furthermore, NVIC 01-16 announces what
the Coast Guard considers equivalent to chart and publication carriage and certain navigation functions required by
titles 33 and 46 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations. ENCs may be used in navigation systems other than ECDIS, the
general characteristics of which are described in the NVIC.

USCG Rulemaking for Nautical Chart Carriage

On March 28, 2022, the USCG published an Advance Notice or Proposal of Rule Making for Electronic Chart and
Navigational Equipment Carriage Requirements to gather public input regarding the modification of the chart and
navigational equipment carriage requirements in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations. The public comment period
ended June 27, 2022. As was the case when the USCG developed NVIC 01-16, and in other cases related to nautical
chart carriage requirements, NOAA continues to work alongside our USCG partners as they proceed with this
comprehensive rulemaking process to update regulations regarding use and carriage of charts.

IHO S-100 Based Products

The S-100 Universal Hydrographic Data Model is a geospatial data standard that provides a framework to support the
development and use of a wide variety of “S-series” hydrographic products, some of which are described below. The
simultaneous display and use of several S-100 based products will be enabled within navigation systems currently
being developed. The data from the new IHO S-101 ENC product will serve as the base navigational layer over which
data from other S-100 based products may be displayed.

Transition from S-57 to S-101 ENC Production

The S-101 ENC Product Specification complies with the IHO S-100 Universal Hydrographic Data Model and S-101
ENCs will ultimately replace the current S-57-based ENC format. The content of an S-101 ENC is not radically different
from an S-57 ENC, although there are changes to the structure and encoding of some features and attributes that will
enhance the characterization and display of certain features. The full potential of S-101 will be realized when other
S-100 based products are fully developed. These include products for the transfer, use, and display of data, such as
surface currents, water levels, high resolution bathymetry, vessel traffic services, oceanography, meteorology, and
marine protected areas. Once these interoperable products are available, they may be displayed and used with the
S-101 ENCs in ECDIS and other S-100 compliant systems. Some of the S-100 based products that will start to become
available around 2025 are described on the Universal Hydrographic Data Model page of NOAA’s Precision Marine
Navigation website. Precision marine navigation is the ability of vessels to safely and efficiently navigate and operate
in close proximity to the seafloor, narrow channels, overhead bridges and cables, and other hazards, facilitated by
these new products and other resources.

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A recent International Maritime Organization (IMO) resolution will allow ECDIS manufacturers to start installing S-100
and S-101 enabled ECDIS systems in January 2026 and will require all new ECDIS installations to be S-100 and S-101
enabled after January 2029. The IMO has not established the date on which all other SOLAS regulated ships will
be required to use S-101 ENCs, but it will likely be at least 10 or 15 years away (see Figure 8). Hydrographic offices
around the world, including NOAA, will be producing ENC data in both formats for some years to come. During this
interim, many ECDIS and other navigation and chart display systems will be “dual-fueled” and be able to ingest either
ENC format.

Figure 8. ECDIS functionality milestones for ships subject to IMO SOLAS

regulations, and timelines for the start of S-101 ENC distribution and end of
S-57 ENC distribution.

ENC producers and distributors, chart production software developers, ECDIS and other ENC display manufacturers,
ship owners and operators, mariners, and other stakeholders are preparing for the transition in a number of ways.
NOAA’s ENC production system will need to be upgraded to produce S-101 ENCs. System testing, cartographer
training for new software and techniques, and modifications to existing processes will start soon. The means for the
concurrent distribution of both ENC products will also need to be developed. These are major engineering efforts that
have already begun. They are distinct from and in addition to the ongoing ENC rescheming effort, but ENC rescheming
is an essential step that will make the transition to S-101 ENC production more efficient.

Transition of HD ENCs to the S-102 Bathymetric Surface Product

There are currently 15 reschemed band 6 ENCs covering the harbors of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. These
“high definition” or HD ENCs have depth contours compiled at one-meter intervals to a depth of about 30 meters. This
is five times the depth contour resolution specified for ordinary ENCs in the S-57 and S-101 ENC product specifications.
Development of HD ENCs helped NOAA, Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor pilots, mariners and others explore how
this additional level of detail could assist large ships operating in these ports with scant under keel clearances.
When these HD ENCs were released in 2020, it was expected that additional HD ENC coverage in other major ports
and in the lower Mississippi River would follow. However, S-100 based S-102 Bathymetric Surface product coverage
is now being developed for Los Angeles, Long Beach, and other harbors that will provide an even higher resolution
bathymetric model to support real-time navigation decision making. Therefore, NOAA is ceasing any additional HD
ENC product development and maintenance. The original HD ENCs will be replaced with S-102 data and these band 6
ENCs will be converted to “ordinary” 1:10,000 scale band 5 ENCs by the end of 2025.

ENC Display Services

Two ENC display services—the ECDIS Display Service and the NOAA Chart Display Service—provide simple interfaces
that developers can use to integrate the display of ENC-based chart images into online and offline applications. These
services are often used to provide a base map over which other data are displayed. The chart images are rendered
from the latest NOAA ENC data. The ENC data and the chart images derived from it are updated weekly. Each of the
ENC display services portrays the ENC data with a different symbology set.

ECDIS Display Service

The ECDIS Display Service uses symbology developed by the IHO for the display of ENC data on Electronic Chart
Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) that large ocean-going vessels and many smaller commercial ships use for
navigation (see Figure 9). This symbol set is commonly referred to by its IHO specification number, “S-52,” or as “ECDIS
symbology.” The NOAA ENC Viewer also portrays ENC data using this ECDIS symbology.

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 Figure 9. ECDIS Display Service rendering of ENC along the Columbia River with symbology
specified by the IHO.

NOAA Chart Display Service

The NOAA Chart Display Service renders NOAA ENC data with “traditional paper chart” symbols, labels, and color
schemes familiar to those who have used NOAA paper nautical charts or the NOAA Custom Chart application. The
NOAA Chart Display Viewer also portrays ENC data using this traditional symbology, as shown in Figure 10.

Figure 10. NOAA Chart Display Service rendering of ENC data along the Columbia River with
traditional paper chart symbology.

More information about display service formats is on the ENC Display Services webpage.

ENC Geographic Information System (GIS) Support

NOAA’s ENC Direct to GIS webpage allows users to display, query, and download base editions of NOAA ENC data
in a variety of GIS/CAD formats. NOAA ENC data provides a detailed representation of the U.S. coastal and marine
environment. Users may select all or specific IHO S-57 object classes within the ENC data to download seamlessly
across any ENCs within the same ENC usage scale band. Three pre-built theme layers—Coastal Maintained Channels,
U.S. Maritime Limits and Boundaries, and Shipping Lanes and Regulations—can be viewed or obtained for the entire
United States. These standardized data sets are based on several Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards.

U.S. Chart No. 1

The U.S. Chart No. 1 is a 130-page document that describes the symbols, abbreviations, and terms used on nautical
charts produced by NOAA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Many chart producing nations
publish similar documents for their own paper charts. The U.S. is one of the few countries that also includes a guide
to the symbols used to portray ENC data on ECDIS. After January 2025, NOAA will no longer produce traditional paper
nautical charts, but NGA will continue to provide paper charts for its Department of Defense customers, mostly over
non-U.S. waters. Thus, the U.S. Chart No. 1 will be available for some time to come.

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The mix of symbology used for NOAA Custom Charts is evolving. It is currently a combination of traditional NOAA chart
symbols, such as the unique rhombus shaped buoys, and other standard symbols established by the IHO for paper
charts. NOAA continues to refine NCC symbology and labels. NOAA is also participating in the IHO’s development of
a standard, baseline symbology set to enable creating uniform paper chart output from any ENC data. Once these
efforts are more mature, NOAA may consider revising the current U.S. Chart No. 1 format to include one or both of
these ENC-based paper chart symbol sets.

Conclusion
NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey continues to adapt its products and services to better serve the needs of the
commercial and private maritime community. Major programs are underway to improve the format, content, and
distribution of digital navigational products and to develop new products that will provide a more comprehensive
portrayal of the coastal and ocean environment. By 2025, the Coast Survey’s Marine Chart Division will sunset the
production of traditional paper nautical charts. In 2026, the gridding phase of rescheming the current S-57 based
ENC product suite will be completed and production of S-101 based ENC data will commence. This will improve the
safety and efficiency of marine transportation for professional mariners and recreational boaters, as well as support
the needs of other users for coastal management, disaster preparedness, rescue and recovery operations, fishing,
environmental protection, and many other activities on or near our Nation’s waters.

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