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NOAA data scrape
In 2025, NOAA Hydrographic Systems and Technology Branch, in collaboration with University of New Hampshire Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, and the IHO Data Center for Digital Bathymetry, began investigating operationalization of CSB data for safety of n...
Tampa Bay community mapping efforts
NOAA’s hydrographic health model is a risk-based framework that evaluates the safety of navigation by combining factors such as ship traffic, records of groundings, the quality and age of existing data, and the rate of seafloor change. The model produces a “hy...
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Glossary Authorship and acknowledgements Goals and objectives Definition and important uses of CSB Legal considerations Finding your crowd Vessel features Motivating vessels and overcoming hesitation Maintaining vessel engagement Hardware opti...
Glossary
B-12 A guidance document created by the CSBWG and IHO to provide an outline of the technical “how-to” on CSB collection, metadata format, offset collection, and data contribution so that all Trusted Nodes follow the same format uniformly. CSB Crowd Sourced ...
Authorship and Acknowledgements
This document was commissioned out of the 16th annual meeting of the Crowd Sourced Bathymetry Working Group held in March 2025 in Wellington, New Zealand. These efforts are the result of a request by new and interested Crowd Sourced Bathymetry (CSB) initiative...
Goals and Objectives
The goal of this document is to fulfill a request put forth by the 16th annual Crowd Sourced Bathymetry Working Group, under Work Item G, to provide guidance for the successful development and operation of a CSB program. This document was created by several of...
Example recruitment email for stakeholder meeting
For inaugural stakeholder meeting: [Fill in highlighted areas with details appropriate to your organization] Hello, I’m reaching out to you on behalf of [Your organization name / website link]. We are building a pilot crowdsourced bathymetry (CSB) program...
Example stakeholder meeting agenda
For inaugural stakeholder meeting: Crowdsourced Bathymetry (CSB) in Tampa Bay/Florida Developing a Stakeholder-Driven Process USF College of Marine Science, MSL Conference Room 140 7th Ave South, St. Petersburg, FL 33713 21 September 2023, 9:00 a....
Example stakeholder input session prompts
For inaugural stakeholder meeting: Crowdsourced Bathymetry (CSB) in Tampa Bay/Florida Developing a Stakeholder-Driven Process Stakeholder Input Session #1: Awareness and use of bathymetric information Do you currently use seafloor mappin...
Example stakeholder meeting survey
Provide the following questions to stakeholders as a pre- and post-meeting survey Q1 Which of the following aligns most closely with the group you are representing at thismeeting? Industry Private Business Academia State Government Federal Government ...
Example recruitment email for Crowd the Bay participants
[Fill in highlighted texts with appropriate information] Dear [Recipient's name], The Center for Ocean Mapping and Innovative Technologies (COMIT) has been developing a crowdsourced bathymetry (CSB) program in Tampa Bay, and I thought you and [Recipient's or...
Example memorandum of understanding
The University of South Florida Board of Trustees’ (“USF”) Center for Ocean Mapping and Innovative Technologies (“COMIT”) is a Trusted Node in the International Hydrographic Organization’s (“IHO”) Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry’s (“DCDB”) project entitle...
Example vessel offsets worksheets
Example letter of agreement and metadata form
Used by the International Seakeepers Society: linked here.
Example data transfer guide
Example data retrieval guide
Example logger menu