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Definition and important uses of CSB
The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) defines Crowdsourced Bathymetry (CSB) as the...
Legal considerations
This section is not intended to provide legal advice, but rather to provide examples of some comm...
Motivating vessels and overcoming hesitation
Depending on a vessel’s ownership, motivations to participate in CSB may be vastly different. Bas...
Maintaining vessel engagement
Tools to maintain vessel engagement may include communication and contact, personalization of mis...
Recruitment and onboarding
When initiating engagement with a recruited vessel, it is important to include information about ...
Goals and Objectives
The goal of this document is to fulfill a request put forth by the 16th annual Crowd Sourced Bath...
Installation prep
At least a week before an installation is scheduled, check that the installation kit and equipmen...
Offload mechanisms
The method of retrieving data varies with the type of logger. For first‑generation loggers, or wh...
Submission of GEOJSON data to the DCDB
All data submitted to the DCDB need to be in .geojson (preferred) or XYZ format and contain appro...
NCEI/DCDB data extraction
Perform the following steps to extract CSB data from the DCDB: Go to the IHO Data Centre for D...