Contents

• Glossary
• Authorship and acknowledgements
• Goals and objectives
  • How to use this manual
  • Definition and importance of CSB
• Legal considerations
• Finding your crowd
  • Vessel features
  • Vessel motivation
  • Maintaining vessel engagement
• Hardware
  • First generation loggers
  • Next generation and WiFi-enabled loggers
  • Comparison of logger options
• Installation and setup
  • Directions for installing various logger types
  • Collecting metadata
• Data retrieval and management
  • Frequency of data drops
  • Methods of data retrieval
• Data transformation and submission to the DCDB
  • GitHub repository
  • Open VBI
  • Graphic user interface
• Data extraction and processing
  • DCDB data extraction
  • Pydro tidal corrections
  • Processing data from ??
• Data visualization
  • ArcGIS: Editing tide-corrected CSB data
  • ArcGIS: Generating CSB data shapefiles
  • QGIS: Editing tide-corrected CSB data
  • Visualizing data with QGIS
• Use cases and effective communication
  • NOAA scrape use case
  • Example 2
• Templates