33 U.S.C. § 892 — Definitions

(1) “Administrator” means the NOAA Administrator. (2) “Administration” means NOAA. (3) “Hydrographic data” means information acquired through hydrographic, bathymetric, photogrammetric, lidar, radar, remote-sensing, shoreline, ocean, or coastal surveys; geodetic, geospatial, or geomagnetic measurements; tide, water-level, or current observations; or other methods, and used to provide hydrographic services. (4) “Hydrographic services” means managing, maintaining, interpreting, certifying, and distributing bathymetric, hydrographic, shoreline, geodetic, geospatial, geomagnetic, tide, water-level, and current information, including nautical charts, nautical databases, hydrodynamic forecast and datum-transformation models, and other products derived from hydrographic data; developing nautical information systems; and related activities. (5) “Coast and Geodetic Survey Act” means the Act with that title approved August 6, 1947 (33 U.S.C. 883a and following).