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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Commercial Fishing Is Most Dangerous Profession
by USA Today
11 March 2003
The plight of the nation's fishermen worsens. They work in the USA's most dangerous profession at a time when the Coast Guard is focusing more on homeland security than on safety, marine experts say. Most earn low wages in an industry beset by declining fish prices, overfished waters and shortened fishing seasons.
