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Recruitment and onboarding

2026 Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual Finding Your Crowd

When initiating engagement with a recruited vessel, it is important to include information about ...

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Maintaining vessel engagement

2026 Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual Finding Your Crowd

Tools to maintain vessel engagement may include communication and contact, personalization of mis...

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Offload mechanisms

2026 Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual Data Retrieval and Management

The method of retrieving data varies with the type of logger. For first‑generation loggers, or wh...

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Example internal SOP for a CSB company/program

2026 Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual Templates

DISCOVERY Yacht Onboarding Process for Citizen Science & Seabed 2030  Version 1. Digital Introdu...

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

ArcGIS: Editing tide-corrected CSB data

2026 Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual Data Visualization

For Trusted Nodes that have access to ESRI software licenses, tide-corrected CSB data can be edit...

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Example recruitment email for Crowd the Bay participants

2026 Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual Templates

[Fill in highlighted texts with appropriate information] Dear [Recipient's name], The Center fo...

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Pydro tidal corrections

2026 Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual Data Extraction and Processing

Support Contact: Anthony Klemm, NOAA Office of Coast Survey anthony.r.klemm@noaa.gov  Perform th...

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

NCEI/DCDB data extraction

2026 Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual Data Extraction and Processing

Perform the following steps to extract CSB data from the DCDB: Go to the IHO Data Centre for D...

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Installation prep

2026 Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual Installation and Setup

At least a week before an installation is scheduled, check that the installation kit and equipmen...

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Submission of GEOJSON data to the DCDB

2026 Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual Data Transformation and Submission

All data submitted to the DCDB need to be in .geojson (preferred) or XYZ format and contain appro...

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Contents

2026 Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual

Glossary Authorship and acknowledgements Goals and objectives Definition and important uses ...

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Collecting metadata

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (working... Installation and Setup

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

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Installation guide: YDVR

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (working... Installation and Setup

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

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Installation guide: OFM

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (working... Installation and Setup

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

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Installation Kit

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (working... Installation and Setup

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

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Comparison of logger options

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (working... Hardware Options

Depending on a CSB program’s needs at a given time, one type of logger may be preferred over anot...

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Legal considerations

Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual (working...

This section is not intended to provide legal advice, but rather to provide examples of some comm...

Updated 2 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

WIBL and YDVR data processing

2026 Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual Data Transformation and Submission

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

Updated 6 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Definition and important uses of CSB

2026 Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual

 The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) defines Crowdsourced Bathymetry (CSB) as the...

Updated 7 months ago by Sophie Chernoch

Legal considerations

2026 Crowdsourced Bathymetry Manual

This section is not intended to provide legal advice, but rather to provide examples of some comm...

Updated 7 months ago by Sophie Chernoch