Collection: Bathymetry and Positioning

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

AUGMENTED REALITY FOR CREWED HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS

By Julia Bräker, Julia Hertel, Marc Briede, Thomas Thies, Martin Semmann

How Augmented Reality Can Leverage Water Depth Management in the Port of Hamburg Abstract For the process of…

Bathymetry and Positioning Research and Technology

CAN ARGO FLOATS HELP IMPROVE BATHYMETRY?

By Esmee M. van Wijk, Bryan Hally, Luke O. Wallace, Nathalie Zilberman, Megan Scanderbeg

1. Introduction Currently, less than 24% of the global ocean floor has been well mapped (Seabed 2030 Project,…

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

US OBJECTIVES WITH NOMEC: ENABLING CONTRIBUTIONS TO SEABED 2030

By Benjamin K. Evans, Jeremy Weirich

Abstract Building on Seabed 2030 momentum, in 2020, the United States (US) debuted the National Strategy for Mapping,…

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MEASURING WATER LEVELS BY HANDHELD SMARTPHONES – A contribution to exploit crowdsourcing in the spatio temporal densification of water gauging networks

By Melanie Elias, Hans-Gerd Maas

1. INTRODUCTION Along with droughts, floods are one of the two most important water-related disasters closely linked to…

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VARIANCE IN THE ACCURACY OF TIDAL LEVELS WITH INCREASING DATA LENGTH

By D.R. Metters

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 The highest astronomical tide The Highest Astronomical Tide (HAT) is the uppermost of the various…

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IMPROVED TECHNIQUES TO RESOLVE THE WATER COLUMN SOUND SPEED STRUCTURE FOR MULTIBEAM RAY TRACING

By J.-G. Nistad, Patrick Westfeld

1. INTRODUCTION The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) of Germany collects bathymetry and detects underwater obstructions from…

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A COMMITMENT TO CROWDSOURCED BATHYMETRY CITIZEN SOURCED DATA – HELP REVEAL THE DEEP AND SHARE YOUR DATA

By Jennifer Jencks, D. Wyatt, M. Pratellesi, P. Wills

1. INTRODUCTION Bathymetry underpins the safe, sustainable, cost effective execution of nearly every human activity at sea. Yet,…

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PROGRAM SEAMAP 2030 – 100 % of the Portuguese maritime spaces mapped by 2030

By Lieutenant Commander T. Geraldes Dias

Abstract At present, we only know in detail about 19% of the world seafloor. Concerning the Portuguese maritime…

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CLOUD-BASED TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION FOR REMOTE WORK AND LEARNING

By Alison Proctor, Denis Hains, Guillaume Labbe-Morissette, Ian Church, Marc Thibodeau, Sean Mullan, Tami Francksen

1. Abstract The hydrographic industry is undergoing radical changes in mission and technology to bring rise to a…

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AUTONOMOUS SURVEY IN NORTHERN ENVIRONMENTS

By D Bazowsky, D. Mallace, M. Day, R. MacKenzie

1. Abstract This note depicts the use of a next generation Uncrewed Surface Vessel for the collection of…

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MULTI-SENSOR SDB AT A NEW SCALE – Addressing the urgent need for coastal bathymetry in the Caribbean with rapid, scalable SDB powered by deep learning and cloud technologies

By K. Goodrich

With National Science Foundation funding, TCarta Marine launched Project Trident to re-imagine satellite-derived bathymetry (SDB) methods for greater…

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ESTIMATING OBSERVER AND DATA REPUTATION IN MARINER VOLUNTEERED BATHYMETRY

By B. Calder

1.  Introduction Most hydrographic offices (HOs) now agree that data volunteered by mariners, called variously Crowdsourced Bathymetry or…