4.2 Links with Mission Goals and Programs

The Commerce and Transportation Mission Goal supports the Nation's commerce with information for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation. Specific strategies identified include:
Expand and enhance advanced technology monitoring and observing systems, such as weather and oceanographic observations, ice forecasts and nowcasts, hydrographic surveys, and precise positioning coordinates, to provide accurate, up-to-date information.
Develop and apply new technologies, methods, and models to increase the capabilities, efficiencies, and accuracy of transportation-related products and services.
Develop and implement sophisticated assessment and prediction techniques, products, and services to support decisions on aviation, marine, and surface navigation efficiencies; coastal resource management; and transportation system management, operations, and planning.
Build public understanding of the science and technology involved and the role of the environment in commerce and transportation through outreach, education, and industry collaboration.

The following SOCD-relevant research priorities have been identified.

Reduce risks to life, health, and property within our Nation's transportation system
Remote sensing sensor, data acquisition, and processing advances
Issues that slow or stop movement of goods and people in the U.S. transportation system
Develop the standardized Next Generation Operational Forecast System
Develop methods to determine uncertainties for model forecasts
Develop methodology to attain 1-cm geoid model accuracy
Develop standards and protocols for weather-related electronic data exchange
Validate methodologies for acquisition, processing, and dissemination of weather-related data
Transfer research weather-observation prototypes into full operational use
Real-time physical oceanographic data collection
Hydrodynamic modeling
Reduced risks and adverse environmental impacts from the U.S. transportation system
Responding to spills in a manner that minimizes the impacts to biological, economic, and cultural resources.
Assessing the impacts of both the spill and the response efforts on those resources.
Restoring the impacted resources with the highest degree of efficiency and effectiveness.

Marine Transportation Systems: Linkages with this program are predominately through SOCD support of the National Ice Center (NIC), whose activities are addressed by this program. SOCD provides the Chief Scientist for the NIC. Research and development activities and NIC support are explicitly captured in SOCD's Sea Ice Science Team roadmap.
Marine Weather:
Geodesy:
NOAA Emergency Response: