NOAA’s Navigation Services

FY2005 and FY2006 Budgets

Roger L. Parsons, Office of Coast Survey

Mike Szabados, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services

Charlie Challstrom, National Geodetic Survey

Workshop held on March 2 for Stakeholder views on C&T activities and future

NOAA Strategic PlanMission Goals:

• Ecosystems -- Protect, restore and manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through ecosystem-based management.

• Climate -- Understand climate variability and change to enhance society’s ability to plan and respond.

• Weather & Water -- Serve society’s needs for weather and water information.

• Commerce & Transportation -- Support the Nation’s commerce with information for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation.

• Organizational Excellence

NOAA Annual Budget Process

Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep

FY05 Begins

FY06 President’s

Budget Announced

FY06 Passback from OMB

FY05 Ends

FY06 Begins with or w/out

enacted budget

FY07 at OMB

FY08 Programming

House & Senate

mark up FY06

FY05 Appropriations bill enacted FY08 Planning begins

At any given time, NOAA is working within 4+ different budget cycles• Execution: FY05• Budgeting: FY06• Programming: FY07• Planning: FY08 and out-years

DOC/NOAA testify on the FY06 Budget

FY07 NOAA Budget to

DOC

Conference mark FY06

FY07 Passback from DOC, Budget to

OMB

FY08 Annual Guidance

Memorandum

Marine Transportation Systems & Geodesy Budget: FY 2005

Requested increases to the FY05 Budget:

Electronic Navigational Charts

Address Survey Backlog

Vessel Time Charter

Nat’l Water Level Obs Network upgrades

Additional Earmarks:

Hydro survey contracts, UNCLOS

Shoreline Mapping – Aerial, Ches Bay

Height Mod Grant $ (LA,MS,TX, WA, WI, AL,KY, NC,CA)

Great Lakes NWLON

Alaska Tides/Currents

Request

$2M

$20.5M

$8.6M

$2.7M

Approp’d

$0M

$18.7M

$1.9M

$2.7M

$6.6M

$2M

$9.2M

$2M

$1.5M

The purpose of a sustained and Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) is to make more effective use of existing resources, new knowledge, and advances in technology to address seven societal goals:

– Improve predictions of climate change and weather and their effects on coastal communities and the nation

– Improve the safety and efficiency of marine operations– More effectively mitigate the effects of natural hazards– Improve national and homeland security– Reduce public health risks– More effectively protect and restore healthy coastal marine

ecosystems, and – Enable the sustained use of marine resources.

Integrated Ocean Observing SystemNOAA Navigation Services View

FY05 Base– Tides and Currents (NWLON/PORTS/NCOP) $27.2M

(underkeel clearance, water levels, sea level change, storm surge)

– Hydrographic Surveying/Shoreline Mapping $61.7M*(Topography/Bathymetry – MTS, ecosystem research/mgmt)

– Oceanographic Nowcast/Forecast Models $2M(integrator for maritime commerce/safety, CZ mgmt)

– VDatum Reference Level Transformation Tool $.3M(integrates for seamless CZ DEMs, consistently defined shoreline)

– National Spatial Reference System $6.4M (provides common geographic framework for establishing locations of all observed variables)

*Includes Contracting $ and NOAA Fleet Services

Integrated Ocean Observing SystemNOAA Navigation Services Components

Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observing System (ICOOS):

Integrated Coastal Ocean Observing System:NOAA marine weather buoys (National Data Buoy

Center):

COTS and other Observing system earmarks:Joint NOAA/UNH Observations Technology Center: Coastal Observation Technology System Grants:

$24.5M

$16.5M

$8.0M

$30.8M

$4.0M

$26.8M

NOS FY 2005 Integrated Ocean Observing System

$55.3M in earmarks

FY 2005 NOAA Navigation Services IOOS increases

• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles$.49M Procurement funds to upgrade Coast Survey AUV equipment to

improve positioning for data collected

• National Water Level Observation Network $1.94M Address tsunami and storm surge gaps in NWLON by hardening

existing stations and some new, including restoration of several destroyed by recent hurricanes.

Fill NWLON gaps by working with external partners such as USGS, USACE, state agencies, regional associations and others to upgrade their water level stations to NWLON standards so that data can be ingested, quality controlled, and distributed.

FY 2005 NOAA IOOS increases that impact Navigation Services

• NOAA/Navy IOOS Demonstration project $.25M Demonstrate combining NOAA and Navy data to

route ship traffic

• Ocean and coastal modeling $.97M Ocean and coastal supercomputers developed jointly

by NWS and NOS

• Coastal winds $1.7M Transition coastal profilers to operations

• Densify and enhance National Data Buoy Center $7.8Mobservations Add current profiles, directional waves, temperature,

and conductivity profiles

• Data Management and Communication $1.3M Centralize data access to NDBC buoys data, NWLON

and PORTS

Marine Transportation Systems & Geodesy Budget: FY 2006 President’s Request

Specifics in addition to the FY2005 Request:

Data Acquisition/Processing Improvements

Vertical Datum Transformation Tool (VDatum)

Electronic Navigational Charts

Mapping and Charting Base (NRTs and other)

Socioeconomic Studies

Joint Hydro Center

Address Survey Backlog (absorbs Time Charter into 1 line)

National Currents Program

Amount

$1M

$2M

$1.9M

$.7M

$.3M

$7.5M

$31.5M

$1.5M

FTE

1

2

2

• Technology, trend toward higher resolution datasets, and congressional support for increased data acquisition leading NOAA to a new kind of data backlog – on the processing side

• Effort helps to address the improvements needed on the back end of hydro data collection to speed data to mariners

• Component of the Ping-to-Chart streamlining effort– GPS-enabled buoys for in-field processing support– Satellite imagery for shoreline change analysis– Support to field units to keep pace with technology

developments

FY 06 Adjustments Requested:Data Acquisition/Processing Improvements

$1M

• VDatum models resolve the problems that exist between geospatial data sets collected at different reference levels.

• Tool supports NOAA’s continual improvement in hydro/shoreline mapping and data delivery techniques for navigation safety.

– Improves the efficiency and accuracy of hydrographic surveys for nautical charts by eliminating the need for time-consuming water level corrections and post-processing.

– Airborne, land, and marine platforms will be able to exploit GPS technology for vertical location, fuse GPS height with other remote sensing technologies, and map the national coastline both above and below water with greater ease and accuracy.

• VDatum will also enable sharing of geospatial datasets among federal/state/local agencies and academia by translating data between disparate reference datums – multiple uses for data saves money, time.

• Multiple uses in addition to mapping -- models developed for Puget Sound now being used to improve inundation estimates from tsunamis.

FY 06 Adjustments Requested:Vertical Datum Transformation Tool (VDatum)

$2M

Electronic Navigational Charts -- 1.9M• Repeats FY05 request of $2M not funded• Continues planned incremental investment to provide full contiguous ENC coverage

of U.S. waters. • NOAA will add 145 ENCs in FY 2006, for a total of 670 built and maintained. • At requested funding level, NOAA should achieve complete ENC coverage for the

Nation by the end of FY 2008.

Mapping and Charting Base -- $.7M• Enables NOAA to rebuild capacity for its Navigation Response Teams (NRTs) to

implement NRTs 5 and 6. • Restores contract support and FTE for full staffing, equipment buys • NRTs support critical ENC field verification, emergency response activities associated

with natural and man-made disasters, and National Homeland Security activities.

FY 06 Adjustments Requested:

Joint Hydro Center – $7.5M• Rolls previous earmarks into base funds• Center’s activities focus on two major tasks:

– education aimed at creating a learning center that will promote and foster the education of a new generation of hydrographers and ocean mapping scientists

– research to develop and evaluate a wide range of state-of-the-art hydrographic and ocean mapping technologies and applications.

Address Survey Backlog -- $31.5M• Consolidates $10.5M from Time Charter line item into this line• Allows NOAA to maintain its planned FY 2006 survey schedule to collect and

process approximately 3500 square nautical miles of hydrographic data. • Increase will fund contracts for data acquisition.

FY 06 Adjustments Requested:

Geodesy – $.9M

• Increase requested for the SC Geodetic Survey and the CA Spatial Reference Center. • Enables support of SC’s state program to establish horizontal and vertical geodetic

control throughout the state. • Allows land and structures to be referenced to the national horizontal and vertical

coordinate system to improve land records management, engineering, land planning, and economic development.

• CA Spatial Reference Center has a plan to establish and maintain a network of GPS control stations to meet demands by gov’t and private sector for a reliable spatial reference system in CA.

• This infrastructure will aid public health and safety, assist in the protection and preservation of natural resources, and improve the productivity of government and private business.

FY 06 Adjustments Requested:

• NOAA needs to study the socioeconomic value of its products and services to:– validate its requirements and responsibilities– better articulate and quantify the benefits of its programs– more effectively prioritize resource investments

• Industry, public and government entities involved with commerce and transportation utilize a wide range of NOAA information, products and services.

• NOAA will analyze data to generate information about the social and economic effects, benefits, and costs of NOAA Commerce and Transportation programs, information and services.

• Data on the economic value and utility of NOAA’s suite of Commerce and Transportation products and services will help set funding priorities and better allocate taxpayer resources.

FY 06 Adjustments Requested: Socioeconomic Studies

$.3M

• Accurate knowledge of tidal currents essential for safe and efficient navigation. • Tidal currents can help vessels avoid collisions, improve transit efficiency by

allowing schedules to be aligned with, instead of against, current flows.• Increase supports NOAA’s Annual Tidal Current Table predictions with new

observations to update potentially dangerous predictions based on old or insufficient data.

• Approximately 70% of the over 2,700 stations in the 2002 Tidal Current Tables• are based on data that is well over 30 years old. • Request would increase the number of current observation stations being checked

from 10 per year to 70 per year, making significant progress toward the target recycle rate (130 stations/year total) for the system.

• Over 90% of the requested funds would be outsourced for data collection contracts after 1st year capital investments of $250K

FY 06 Adjustments Requested: National Currents Program

$1.5M

National Ocean Service

FY 2004 Enacted (with rescission)

FY2005 President's Request

FY2005 Enacted (with recission)

FY2006 Increases Requested

FY2006 President's Request

Operations, Research, and Facilities

NAVIGATION SERVICES

Mapping and Charting

Mapping and Charting Base 26,479 40,488 27,233 482 27,825

Electronic Navigational Charts 4,304 6,350 4,239 1,890 6,190

Nautical Charting 6,759 6,406 6,950

Marine Modeling and Geospatial Technology 1,146 1,084 3,500 4,750

Navigational Services 1,885 1,858 2,225

Hydrographic Surveys 1,339 1,282 1,630

Coastal Mapping 535 493 615

Shoreline Mapping 3,676 2,500 2,413 2,448

Chesapeake Bay 989 986

Aerial 989 986

Joint Hydrographic Ctr 4,298 2,580 7,492 7,435

EEZ Baythmetric Research 3,166

Payment to OMAO 2,764

Address Survey Backlog/CONTRACTS 23,413 20,450 18,727 10,487 31,487

EEZ Outer Continental Shelf Ocean Bottom Claims 2,203 2,168

Gulf of Alaska 2,473 2,463

North Pacific 989 986

North Pacific Maritime Boundary Line 989 986

MS/LA Digital Coast 495 789

Vessel Time Charter (50) 11,850 1,971 0

Subtotal Mapping & Charting 88,841 84,218 82,562 16,359 91,555

TOTAL NAVIGATION SERVICES 143,739 131,727 141,249 18,759 139,441

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* Figures are approximate

Office of Coast SurveyMapping and Charting Line Items

National Ocean Service

FY 2004 Enacted (with rescission)

FY2005 President's Request

FY2005 Enacted (with recission)

FY2006 Increases Requested

FY2006 President's Request

Operations, Research, and Facilities

NAVIGATION SERVICES

Geodesy

Geodesy Base 21,329 22,815 20,004 22,190

Nat'l Spatial Ref System 0 1,971

Height Modernization Regional Expansion - NGS Implementation 0 250 247 233

Height Modernization Regional Expansion - NC 983 1,000 986 933

Height Modernization Regional Expansion - CA 990 1,000 493 433 933

Height Modernization Regional Expansion - TX 739

Geodetic Survey - LA 492 490

Height Modernization Study- MS 495 591

Washington 495 493

Height Modernization Study - WI 2,957 2,957

Height Modernization Regional Expansion - SC 492 500 0 467 467

Geodetic Survey - KY 0 493

Geodetic Survey - AL 1,968 1,971

Subtotal Geodesy 30,201 25,565 31,435 900 24,756

TOTAL NAVIGATION SERVICES 143,739 131,727 141,249 18,759 139,441

National Geodetic SurveyGeodesy Line Items

National Ocean Service

FY 2004 Enacted (with rescission)

FY2005 President's Request

FY2005 Enacted (with recission)

FY2006 Increases Requested

FY2006 President's Request

Operations, Research, and Facilities

NAVIGATION SERVICES

Tide and Current Data

Tide and Current Data Base 20,755 21,944 18,401 1,500 23,130

PORTS [5278] [3000] 2,938 [3000]

Great Lakes NWLON 1,966 1,971

Coastal Storms 0 0

Upper Cook Inlet Tidal Research 492 0

Alaska Current & Tide Data 1,484 1,479

NWLON 0 2,463

Subtotal Tide & Current Data 24,697 21,944 27,252 1,500 23,130

TOTAL NAVIGATION SERVICES 143,739 131,727 141,249 18,759 139,441

Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services

Tide and Current Line Items