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ArcGIS: Generating CSB data shapefiles
This section provides instructions on how to export shapefiles of CSB data for specific participants, or for upload to an ArcGIS Online CSB Data Portal. If your shapefile contains data from multiple participants, you will need to apply a selection query to cr...
QGIS: Editing tide-corrected CSB data
For Trusted Nodes that prefer to use free and open-source GIS software, the following section describes how to edit tide-corrected CSB data using QGIS, and how to export shapefiles of data that can be shared with program participants. Launch QGIS and select...
QGIS: Data visualization
Motivation Some crowdsourced bathymetry participants may have a clear idea of how they intend to use the depth soundings they've collected and what data format best suits that purpose. Others may benefit from a simple tutorial on how to visualize their data u...
Use Cases and Effective Communication
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...
Templates
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 entit...
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