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| | | Shoreline Mapping |
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| | U. S. Shoreline mapping through aerial photography | | | | Since the late 1930s, high-resolution, georeferenced aerial photography for defining the nation’s 95,000-mile shoreline has been a responsibility of the National Geodetic Survey, part of NOAA’s National Ocean Service (NOS). Precision aerial photography is the primary source material used for creating coastal survey maps and digital cartographic files. These data sets, in turn, provide data for producing NOAA nautical charts.
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 | | | | | US Ocean Policy Final Report
by Commission on Ocean Policy (US), Final Report 20 September 2004 |  |
| | Underscoring the urgent need for decisive action on a new national ocean policy, the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy delivered its Final Report, "An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century," to the President and Congress on September 20, 2004. | |
Read more at http://www.oceancommission.gov/.
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