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Example data transfer guide
Example vessel offsets worksheets
Example letter of agreement and metadata form
Used by the International Seakeepers Society: linked here.
Example recruitment email for stakeholder meeting
For inaugural stakeholder meeting: [Fill in highlighted areas with details appropriate to your o...
Tampa Bay community mapping efforts
NOAA’s hydrographic health model is a risk-based framework that evaluates the safety of navigatio...
NOAA data scrape
In 2025, NOAA Hydrographic Systems and Technology Branch, in collaboration with University of New...
QGIS: Data visualization
Motivation Some crowdsourced bathymetry participants may have a clear idea of how they intend to...
QGIS: Editing tide-corrected CSB data
For Trusted Nodes that prefer to use free and open-source GIS software, the following section des...
ArcGIS: Generating CSB data shapefiles
This section provides instructions on how to export shapefiles of CSB data for specific participa...
WIBL and YDVR data processing
Getting Set Up You will need to install the following programs to run the WIBL processing script...
Graphical user interface
As of March 2025, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) is being developed to aid in the processing an...
Frequency of data transfer
Depending on logger type, CSB data will be transferred at varying intervals. For first-generation...
Goals and Objectives
The goal of this document is to fulfill a request put forth by the 16th annual Crowd Sourced Bath...
Motivating vessels and overcoming hesitation
Depending on a vessel’s ownership, motivations to participate in CSB may be vastly different. Bas...
Offload mechanisms
The method of retrieving data varies with the type of logger. For first‑generation loggers, or wh...
Recruitment and onboarding
When initiating engagement with a recruited vessel, it is important to include information about ...
Maintaining vessel engagement
Tools to maintain vessel engagement may include communication and contact, personalization of mis...
Example recruitment email for Crowd the Bay participants
[Fill in highlighted texts with appropriate information] Dear [Recipient's name], The Center fo...
ArcGIS: Editing tide-corrected CSB data
For Trusted Nodes that have access to ESRI software licenses, tide-corrected CSB data can be edit...
Example internal SOP for a CSB company/program
DISCOVERY Yacht Onboarding Process for Citizen Science & Seabed 2030 Version 1. Digital Introdu...