Waterway Harmonization

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Waterway Harmonization

— This project streamlines precise communication between maritime agencies as well as facilitate communications between the government and the public.

Harmonize waterway place-names across federal agencies, allowing for clear and rapid communication across the federal government.

Customer: U.S. Coast Guard

User Community: USACE, NOAA, academics studying weather or the environment, local recreational boaters, corporations looking at vessel movement, etc.

Highlights:

  • Built a high resolution, national waterways dataset that included ATONIS name attribution and inland river segment numbers.
  • Used our custom base geometry to spatially join other federal agencies’ waterway name data to the ATONIS name data.
  • Fed the spatially joined name attribution into a custom SQL relational database, which allows the data to be queried, exported in tabular form, and displayed in web maps.
  • The data is the first of its kind to include unique Maritime Resource Numbers, and has a set the standard on the creation of MRNs for waterway management.
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The USCG Waterway Harmonization Project: A SummaryClean the Bay Day with Zekiah Technologies