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Installation guide: YDVR

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Installation and Setup

Locate a NMEA 2000 backbone or T-connector with an open port. If a port is available, simply pl...

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Next generation and WiFi enabled loggers

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Hardware Options

Next Generation loggers are characterized as having more than just an SD card to eject and manual...

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Vessel features

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Finding Your Crowd

The suitability of a vessel for CSB depends on both its onboard hardware and the engagement of it...

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Example logger menu

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Templates

   

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Example data retrieval guide

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Templates

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Example data transfer guide

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Templates

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Example memorandum of understanding

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Templates

The University of South Florida Board of Trustees’ (“USF”) Center for Ocean Mapping and Innovat...

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Example stakeholder input session prompts

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Templates

For inaugural stakeholder meeting: Crowdsourced Bathymetry (CSB) in Tampa Bay/Florida   Devel...

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Example stakeholder meeting agenda

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Templates

For inaugural stakeholder meeting: Crowdsourced Bathymetry (CSB) in Tampa Bay/Florida   Devel...

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Example recruitment email for stakeholder meeting

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Templates

For inaugural stakeholder meeting: [Fill in highlighted areas with details appropriate to your o...

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Example stakeholder meeting survey

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Templates

Provide the following questions to stakeholders as a pre- and post-meeting survey Q1 Which of th...

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Tampa Bay community mapping efforts

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Use Cases and Effective Communication

NOAA’s hydrographic health model is a risk-based framework that evaluates the safety of navigatio...

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NOAA data scrape

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Use Cases and Effective Communication

In 2025, NOAA Hydrographic Systems and Technology Branch, in collaboration with University of New...

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QGIS: Editing tide-corrected CSB data

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Data Visualization

For Trusted Nodes that prefer to use free and open-source GIS software, the following section des...

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Graphical user interface

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Data Transformation and Submission

As of March 2025, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is being developed to aid in the processing an...

Updated 3 weeks ago by Sophie Chernoch

WIBL and YDVR data processing

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Data Transformation and Submission

Getting Set Up You will need to install the following programs to run the WIBL processing script...

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Frequency of data transfer

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Data Retrieval and Management

Depending on logger type, CSB data will be transferred at varying intervals. For first-generation...

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Collecting metadata

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Installation and Setup

When installing data loggers, it is important not only to focus on the data that is being collect...

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Installation guide: OFM

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Installation and Setup

OFM has provided detailed Installation and Operating Instructions for their Mussel Kits.  A hard ...

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Installation Kit

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (2026) Installation and Setup

Prior to leaving for a logger installation, ensure that the installation kit contains the followi...

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