Collection: Bathymetry and Positioning

Bathymetry and Positioning

Surveying in extremely extreme conditions – Dead Sea evaporation ponds

By Barry Grinker, Ariel Tarcic

1 Introduction A local chemical company operates evaporation ponds in their Dead Sea site located in the southern…

Bathymetry and Positioning Maritime Safety Information and Nautical Charting Research and Technology

Spatiotemporal analysis of satellite imagery using AI-based optical hydrography for adaptive planning of hydrographic resources

By Peter Grabbert, Mirko Bothe, Patrick Westfeld

1 Introduction The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) is responsible for monitoring the current state of…

Bathymetry and Positioning Research and Technology

Improving global coastal bathymetry from waves – Introducing scalable processing and post-processing workflows for 100 m resolution grids

By Mona Reithmeier, Ingo Laut, Matthijs Gawehn, Christoph Kleih, Jens Schneider von Deimling, Knut Hartmann

1 Introduction Coastal zones host approximately 40 % of the global population and many essential infrastructure and ecosystems….

Bathymetry and Positioning Maritime Safety Information and Nautical Charting Research and Technology

Toward automated volunteer and authoritative bathymetry discovery and comparison

By Patrick Debroisse, Brian Miles

1 Introduction According to the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, approximately 74 % of the world’s oceans remain…

Bathymetry and Positioning Maritime Safety Information and Nautical Charting Research and Technology

Denmark’s Depth Model version 2.0 – Improved compilation of bathymetric data within the Danish waters

By Giuseppe Masetti, Philip Sigaard Granding, Kasper Langdahl, Lasse Mondberg Schwenger, Kristian Villadsen Kristmar

1 Introduction Ocean bathymetry, the study and mapping of the seafloor topography, is a fundamental aspect of marine…

Bathymetry and Positioning Research and Technology

Expanding and improving the Israeli geoid undulation model in the coastal area using nautical and shipborne GNSS measurements

By Gilad Even-Tzur, Jareer Khalilieh, Barry Grinker

1 Introduction A height system is a one-dimensional coordinate system employed to represent the vertical distance (height) of…

Bathymetry and Positioning Research and Technology

Satellite navigation interference monitoring in the Baltic and North Seas

By Thiago Azevedo de Vasconcelos, Lothar Kurz, Andriy Konovaltsev, Tobias Ehlers, Michael Meurer

1 Introduction Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), such as the American GPS and the European Galileo, have very…

Bathymetry and Positioning Research and Technology

Utilizing crowd-sourced bathymetry for post disaster analysis – A case study

By Shaul Solomon, Uri Yoselevich, Ariel Tunik

1 Terminology In this paper, the term Crowd-Sourced Bathymetry (CSB) is used consistently. According to the official definition…

Bathymetry and Positioning Maritime Safety Information and Nautical Charting People and Institutions Research and Technology

From volunteer ping to community map – The CHS’ Community Hydrography Program

By Mathieu Rondeau, Michel Breton, Gabriel Montpetit-Allard, Michel Leger, Yan Bilodeau, Johnny Kasudluak

1 Introduction The International Hydrographic Organization’s (IHO) report Status of Hydrographic Surveying and Charting Worldwide (IHO, 2023) reveals…

Bathymetry and Positioning Research and Technology

Exploration of hydrothermal venting sites using deep-towed multibeam echosounder data

By Tanja Dufek, Ralf Freitag, Thomas Kuhn, Harald Sternberg

Preamble The following work was presented at the Hydrographic Conference HYDRO 2023, 7–9 November 2023, Genoa, Italy in…

Bathymetry and Positioning Data Management Research and Technology

Unlock insights from hydrographic data with GeoAI

By Matthew Woodlief

Preamble The following work was presented at the Hydrographic Conference HYDRO 2023, 7–9 November 2023, Genoa, Italy in…

Bathymetry and Positioning Data Management Maritime Safety Information and Nautical Charting

CSB as part of the modern hydrographic toolbox

By Jennifer Jencks, Belen Jimenez Baron

Preamble This paper is intended as a response to a Note by Philip Payne, published in The International…