Collecting metadata

When installing data loggers, it is important not only to focus on the data that is being collected, but also the metadata. This allows managers to receive and use the most accurate data possible.

Certain logger providers, such as Orange Force Marine, include detailed metadata forms in their installation instructions. CSB program managers are encouraged to adopt their own ways of collecting and maintaining metadata records and are referred to the IHO’s B-12 Edition 3.0.0 Guidance to Crowdsourced Bathymetry document for details on required and suggested metadata fields for CSB data.