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of measurement and description of features which affect maritime activities</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For broader coverage of this topic, see <a href="/wiki/Hydrography" title="Hydrography">Hydrography</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cgs01221_-_Flickr_-_NOAA_Photo_Library.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Cgs01221_-_Flickr_-_NOAA_Photo_Library.jpg/220px-Cgs01221_-_Flickr_-_NOAA_Photo_Library.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Cgs01221_-_Flickr_-_NOAA_Photo_Library.jpg/330px-Cgs01221_-_Flickr_-_NOAA_Photo_Library.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Cgs01221_-_Flickr_-_NOAA_Photo_Library.jpg/440px-Cgs01221_-_Flickr_-_NOAA_Photo_Library.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3864" data-file-height="3680" /></a><figcaption>A nostalgic 1985 sketch of hydrographic surveying in <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Clinton_-_Northern_Wind_-_Ystad_-_2022.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Clinton_-_Northern_Wind_-_Ystad_-_2022.jpg/220px-Clinton_-_Northern_Wind_-_Ystad_-_2022.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Clinton_-_Northern_Wind_-_Ystad_-_2022.jpg/330px-Clinton_-_Northern_Wind_-_Ystad_-_2022.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Clinton_-_Northern_Wind_-_Ystad_-_2022.jpg/440px-Clinton_-_Northern_Wind_-_Ystad_-_2022.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1900" data-file-height="1077" /></a><figcaption>A ship for updating nautical charts.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Neptune-survey-ship.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Neptune-survey-ship.jpg/220px-Neptune-survey-ship.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Neptune-survey-ship.jpg/330px-Neptune-survey-ship.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Neptune-survey-ship.jpg/440px-Neptune-survey-ship.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="535" /></a><figcaption><i>Neptune</i>, a privately owned <a href="/wiki/Survey_ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Survey ship">survey ship</a> based in <a href="/wiki/Chicago,_Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago, Illinois">Chicago</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Northern_Storm_-_Clinton_-_Survey_-_Ystad-2021.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Northern_Storm_-_Clinton_-_Survey_-_Ystad-2021.jpg/220px-Northern_Storm_-_Clinton_-_Survey_-_Ystad-2021.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Northern_Storm_-_Clinton_-_Survey_-_Ystad-2021.jpg/330px-Northern_Storm_-_Clinton_-_Survey_-_Ystad-2021.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Northern_Storm_-_Clinton_-_Survey_-_Ystad-2021.jpg/440px-Northern_Storm_-_Clinton_-_Survey_-_Ystad-2021.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1464" data-file-height="1111" /></a><figcaption>Clintons <i>Northern Storm</i> in the harbour of <a href="/wiki/Ystad" title="Ystad">Ystad</a> 7 July 2021.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Hydrographic survey</b> is the science of measurement and description of features which affect maritime navigation, marine construction, <a href="/wiki/Dredging" title="Dredging">dredging</a>, offshore wind farms, <a href="/wiki/Hydrocarbon_exploration" title="Hydrocarbon exploration">offshore oil exploration</a> and <a href="/wiki/Offshore_oil_drilling" class="mw-redirect" title="Offshore oil drilling">drilling</a> and related activities. Surveys may also be conducted to determine the route of subsea cables such as telecommunications cables, cables associated with wind farms, and HVDC power cables. Strong emphasis is placed on soundings, shorelines, tides, currents, <a href="/wiki/Seabed" title="Seabed">seabed</a> and submerged obstructions that relate to the previously mentioned activities. The term <i>hydrography</i> is used synonymously to describe <i>maritime <a href="/wiki/Cartography" title="Cartography">cartography</a></i>, which in the final stages of the hydrographic process uses the raw data collected through hydrographic survey into information usable by the <a href="/wiki/End_user" title="End user">end user</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Hydrography" title="Hydrography">Hydrography</a> is collected under rules which vary depending on the acceptance authority. Traditionally conducted by ships with a <a href="/wiki/Sounding_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Sounding line">sounding line</a> or <a href="/wiki/Echo_sounding" title="Echo sounding">echo sounding</a>, surveys are increasingly conducted with the aid of aircraft and sophisticated electronic sensor systems in shallow waters.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><b>Offshore survey</b> is a specific discipline of hydrographic survey primarily concerned with the description of the condition of the seabed and the condition of the subsea <a href="/wiki/Oilfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Oilfield">oilfield</a> infrastructure that interacts with it. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organizations">Organizations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydrographic_survey&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_and_international_offices">National and international offices</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydrographic_survey&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: National and international offices"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Hydrographic_office" title="Hydrographic office">Hydrographic office</a></div> <p>Hydrographic offices evolved from naval heritage and are usually found within national naval structures, for example Spain's <a href="/wiki/Instituto_Hidrogr%C3%A1fico_de_la_Marina" title="Instituto Hidrográfico de la Marina">Instituto Hidrográfico de la Marina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coordination of those organizations and product standardization is voluntarily joined with the goal of improving hydrography and safe navigation is conducted by the <a href="/wiki/International_Hydrographic_Organization" title="International Hydrographic Organization">International Hydrographic Organization</a> (IHO). The IHO publishes Standards and Specifications<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> followed by its Member States as well as Memoranda of Understanding and Co-operative Agreements<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with hydrographic survey interests. </p><p>The product of such hydrography is most often seen on nautical charts published by the national agencies and required by the International Maritime Organization (IMO),<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and national regulations to be carried on vessels for safety purposes. Increasingly those charts are provided and used in electronic form unders IHO standards. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-national_agencies">Non-national agencies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydrographic_survey&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Non-national agencies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Governmental entities below the national level conduct or contract for hydrographic surveys for waters within their jurisdictions with both internal and contract assets. Such surveys commonly are conducted by national <a href="/wiki/Hydrographic_office" title="Hydrographic office">organizations</a> or under their supervision or the standards they have approved, particularly when the use is for the purposes of chart making and distribution or the <a href="/wiki/Dredging" title="Dredging">dredging</a> of state-controlled waters. </p><p>In the United States, there is coordination with the National Hydrography Dataset in survey collection and publication.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> State environmental organizations publish hydrographic data relating to their mission.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Private_organizations">Private organizations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydrographic_survey&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Private organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Commercial entities also conduct large-scale hydrographic and <a href="/wiki/Geophysics" title="Geophysics">geophysical</a> surveying, particularly in the dredging, marine construction, <a href="/wiki/Oil_exploration" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil exploration">oil exploration</a>, and drilling industries. Industrial entities installing submarine communications cables<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or power<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> require detailed surveys of cable routes prior to installation and increasingly use acoustic imagery equipment previously found only in military applications when conducting their surveys.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Specialized companies exist that have both the equipment and expertise to contract with both commercial and governmental entities to perform such surveys . </p><p>Companies, universities, and investment groups will often fund hydrographic surveys of public waterways prior to developing areas adjacent those waterways. Survey firms are also contracted to survey in support of design and engineering firms that are under contract for large public projects.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Private surveys are also conducted before dredging operations and after these operations are completed. Companies with large private slips, docks, or other waterfront installations have their facilities and the open water near their facilities surveyed regularly, as do islands in areas subject to variable erosion such as in the Maldives. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Methods">Methods</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydrographic_survey&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Methods"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Bathymetry#Methods" title="Bathymetry">Bathymetry § Methods</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lead_lines_and_sounding_poles">Lead lines and sounding poles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydrographic_survey&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Lead lines and sounding poles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Depth_sounding" title="Depth sounding">Depth sounding</a></div> <p>The history of hydrographic surveying dates almost as far back as that of <a href="/wiki/Sailing" title="Sailing">sailing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-noaahistorysurvey_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-noaahistorysurvey-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For many centuries, a hydrographic survey required the use of lead lines – ropes or lines with depth markings attached to lead weights to make one end sink to the bottom when lowered over the side of a ship or boat – and sounding poles, which were poles with depth markings which could be thrust over the side until they touched bottom. In either case, the depths measured had to be read manually and recorded, as did the position of each measurement with regard to mapped reference points as determined by three-point <a href="/wiki/Sextant" title="Sextant">sextant</a> fixes. The process was labor-intensive and time-consuming and, although each individual depth measurement could be accurate, even a thorough survey as a practical matter could include only a limited number of sounding measurements relative to the area being surveyed, inevitably leaving gaps in coverage between soundings.<sup id="cite_ref-noaahistorysurvey_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-noaahistorysurvey-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wire-drag_surveying">Wire-drag surveying</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydrographic_survey&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Wire-drag surveying"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-move" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Split-arrows.svg/50px-Split-arrows.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Split-arrows.svg/75px-Split-arrows.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Split-arrows.svg/100px-Split-arrows.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="60" data-file-height="20" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">It has been suggested that this section be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Splitting" title="Wikipedia:Splitting">split</a> out into another article titled <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wire-drag_hydrographic_surveying&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wire-drag hydrographic surveying (page does not exist)">Wire-drag hydrographic surveying</a></i>. (<a href="/wiki/Talk:Hydrographic_survey" title="Talk:Hydrographic survey">Discuss</a>) <small><i>(January 2023)</i></small></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In 1904, wire-drag surveys were introduced into hydrography, and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_and_Geodetic_Survey" title="United States Coast and Geodetic Survey">United States Coast and Geodetic Survey</a>′s <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_H._Heck" title="Nicholas H. Heck">Nicholas H. Heck</a> played a prominent role in developing and perfecting the technique between 1906 and 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the wire-drag method, a wire attached to two ships or boats and set at a certain depth by a system of weights and buoys was dragged between two points. If the wire encountered an obstruction, it would become taut and form a "V" shape. The location of the "V" revealed the position of submerged rocks, wrecks, and other obstructions, while the depth at which the wire was set showed the depth at which the obstruction was encountered.<sup id="cite_ref-noaahistorysurvey_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-noaahistorysurvey-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This method revolutionized hydrographic surveying, as it allowed a quicker, less laborious, and far more complete survey of an area than did the use of lead lines and sounding poles. From a navigational safety point of view, a wire-drag survey would not miss a hazard to navigation that projected above the drag wire depth. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 335px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 330px; height: 330px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wire_drag_operations.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wire-drag hydrographic survey operations (diagram), U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, ca. 1920."><img alt="Wire-drag hydrographic survey operations (diagram), U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, ca. 1920." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Wire_drag_operations.jpg/300px-Wire_drag_operations.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Wire_drag_operations.jpg/450px-Wire_drag_operations.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Wire_drag_operations.jpg/600px-Wire_drag_operations.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="452" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Wire-drag hydrographic survey operations (diagram),<br /><a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_and_Geodetic_Survey" title="United States Coast and Geodetic Survey">U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey</a>, ca. 1920.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 335px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 330px; height: 330px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Grunnslep_fra_1932.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Principle of sea surveying with two boats, Norwegian Sea Survey, 1932."><img alt="Principle of sea surveying with two boats, Norwegian Sea Survey, 1932." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Grunnslep_fra_1932.jpg/287px-Grunnslep_fra_1932.jpg" decoding="async" width="287" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Grunnslep_fra_1932.jpg/430px-Grunnslep_fra_1932.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Grunnslep_fra_1932.jpg/574px-Grunnslep_fra_1932.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3071" data-file-height="3210" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Principle of sea surveying with two boats,<br />Norwegian Sea Survey, 1932.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 335px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 330px; height: 330px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Grunnslep_fra_1930.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Technical details of tools used, Norwegian Sea Survey, 1930."><img alt="Technical details of tools used, Norwegian Sea Survey, 1930." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Grunnslep_fra_1930.jpg/236px-Grunnslep_fra_1930.jpg" decoding="async" width="236" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Grunnslep_fra_1930.jpg/354px-Grunnslep_fra_1930.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Grunnslep_fra_1930.jpg/472px-Grunnslep_fra_1930.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3010" data-file-height="3826" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Technical details of tools used,<br />Norwegian Sea Survey, 1930.</div> </li> </ul> <p>Prior to the advent of <a href="/wiki/Sidescan_sonar" class="mw-redirect" title="Sidescan sonar">sidescan sonar</a>, wire-drag surveying was the only method for searching large areas for obstructions and lost vessels and aircraft.<sup id="cite_ref-heck_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-heck-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1906 and 1916, Heck expanded the capability of wire-drag systems from a relatively limited area to sweeps covering channels 2 to 3 nautical miles (3.7 to 5.6 km; 2.3 to 3.5 mi) in width.<sup id="cite_ref-NOAA200WireDrag_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NOAA200WireDrag-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The wire-drag technique was a major contribution to hydrographic surveying during much of the rest of the 20th century. So valuable was wire-drag surveying in the United States that for decades the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and later the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, fielded a pair of <a href="/wiki/Sister_ship" title="Sister ship">sister ships</a> of identical design specifically to work together on such surveys. <a href="/wiki/USC%26GS_Marindin" title="USC&GS Marindin">USC&GS <i>Marindin</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/USC%26GS_Ogden" title="USC&GS Ogden">USC&GS <i>Ogden</i></a> conducted wire-drag surveys together from 1919 to 1942, <a href="/wiki/USC%26GS_Hilgard_(ASV_82)" class="mw-redirect" title="USC&GS Hilgard (ASV 82)">USC&GS <i>Hilgard</i> (ASV 82)</a> and <a href="/wiki/USC%26GS_Wainwright_(ASV_83)" class="mw-redirect" title="USC&GS Wainwright (ASV 83)">USC&GS <i>Wainwright</i> (ASV 83)</a> took over from 1942 to 1967, and USC&GS <i>Rude</i> (ASV 90) (later <a href="/wiki/NOAAS_Rude_(S_590)" class="mw-redirect" title="NOAAS Rude (S 590)">NOAAS <i>Rude</i> (S 590)</a>) and USC&GS <i>Heck</i> (ASV 91) (later <a href="/wiki/NOAAS_Heck_(S_591)" class="mw-redirect" title="NOAAS Heck (S 591)">NOAAS <i>Heck</i> (S 591)</a>) worked together on wire-drag operations from 1967.<sup id="cite_ref-noaahistorysurvey_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-noaahistorysurvey-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-heck_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-heck-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-rude_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rude-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The rise of new electronic technologies – sidescan sonar and multibeam swath systems – in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s eventually made the wire-drag system obsolete. Sidescan sonar could create images of underwater obstructions with the same fidelity as <a href="/wiki/Aerial_photography" title="Aerial photography">aerial photography</a>, while multibeam systems could generate depth data for 100 percent of the bottom in a surveyed area. These technologies allowed a single vessel to do what wire-drag surveying required two vessels to do, and wire-drag surveys finally came to an end in the early 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-noaahistorysurvey_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-noaahistorysurvey-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NOAA200WireDrag_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NOAA200WireDrag-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vessels were freed from working together on wire-drag surveys, and in the U.S. <a href="/wiki/National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration" title="National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</a> (NOAA), for example, <i>Rude</i> and <i>Heck</i> operated independently in their later years.<sup id="cite_ref-heck_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-heck-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-rude_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rude-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Single-beam_echosounders">Single-beam echosounders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydrographic_survey&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Single-beam echosounders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Echo_sounder" class="mw-redirect" title="Echo sounder">Echo sounder</a></div> <p>Single-beam <a href="/wiki/Echosounder" class="mw-redirect" title="Echosounder">echosounders</a> and fathometers began to enter service in the 1930s which used <a href="/wiki/Sonar" title="Sonar">sonar</a> to measure the depth beneath a vessel. This greatly increased the speed of acquiring sounding data over that possible with lead lines and sounding poles by allowing information on depths beneath a vessel to be gathered in a series of lines spaced at a specified distance. However, it shared the weakness of earlier methods by lacking depth information for areas in between the strips of sea bottom the vessel sounded.<sup id="cite_ref-noaahistorysurvey_12-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-noaahistorysurvey-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Multibeam_Echosounders">Multibeam Echosounders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydrographic_survey&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Multibeam Echosounders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Multibeam_echosounder" title="Multibeam echosounder">Multibeam echosounder</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Duplication plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/40px-Edit-clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/60px-Edit-clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/80px-Edit-clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CFORK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CFORK">duplicates</a> the scope of other articles</b>, specifically <a href="/wiki/Multibeam_echosounder" title="Multibeam echosounder">Multibeam echosounder</a>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please <a href="/wiki/Talk:Hydrographic_survey" title="Talk:Hydrographic survey">discuss this issue</a> and help introduce a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Summary_style" title="Wikipedia:Summary style">summary style</a> to the section by replacing the section with a link and a summary or by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SPLIT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SPLIT">splitting the content</a> into a new article.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2023</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>A multibeam echosounder (MBES) is a type of <a href="/wiki/Sonar" title="Sonar">sonar</a> that is used to <a href="/wiki/Seafloor_mapping" class="mw-redirect" title="Seafloor mapping">map the seabed</a>. It emits <a href="/wiki/Acoustic_wave" title="Acoustic wave">acoustic waves</a> in a fan shape beneath its <a href="/wiki/Transceiver" title="Transceiver">transceiver</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Time_of_flight" title="Time of flight">time</a> it takes for the sound waves to reflect off the seabed and return to the receiver is used to calculate the water depth. Unlike other sonars and <a href="/wiki/Echo_sounder" class="mw-redirect" title="Echo sounder">echo sounders</a>, MBES uses <a href="/wiki/Beamforming" title="Beamforming">beamforming</a> to extract directional information from the returning soundwaves, producing a swath of <a href="/wiki/Depth_sounding" title="Depth sounding">depth soundings</a> from a single ping. </p><p>Explicit inclusion of phraseology like: <i>"For all MBES surveys for LINZ, high resolution, geo-referenced backscatter intensity is to be logged and rendered as a survey deliverable."</i><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in a set of contract survey requirements, is a clear indication that the wider hydrographic community is embracing the benefits that can be accrued by employing MBES technology and, in particular, are accepting as a fact that a MBES which provides acoustic backscatter data is a valuable tool of the trade.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (January 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The introduction of multispectral multibeam echosounders<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> continues the trajectory of technological innovations providing the hydrographic surveying community with better tools for more rapidly acquiring better data for multiple uses. A multispectral multibeam echosounder is the culmination of many progressive advances in hydrography from the early days of acoustic soundings when the primary concern about the strength of returning echoes from the bottom was whether, or not, they would be sufficiently large to be noted (detected). The operating frequencies of the early acoustic sounders were primarily based on the ability of magneostrictive and piezoelectric materials whose physical dimensions could be modified by means of electrical current or voltage. Eventually it became apparent, that while the operating frequency of the early single vertical beam acoustic sounders had little, or no, bearing on the measured depths when the bottom was hard (composed primarily of sand, pebbles, cobbles, boulders, or rock), there was a noticeable frequency dependency of the measured depths when the bottom was soft (composed primarily of silt, mud or flocculent suspensions).<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was observed that higher frequency single vertical beam echosounders could provide detectable echo amplitudes from high porosity sediments, even if those sediments appeared to be acoustically transparent at lower frequencies. </p><p>In the late 1960s, single-beam hydrographic surveys were conducted using widely spaced track lines and the shallow (peak) soundings in the bottom data were retained in preference to deeper soundings in the sounding record. During that same time period, early side scan sonar was introduced into the operational practices of shallow water hydrographic surveying. The frequencies of the early side scan sonars were a matter of engineering design expediency and the most important aspect of the side scanning echoes was not the value of their amplitudes, but rather that the amplitudes were spatially variable. In fact, important information was deduced about the shape of the bottom and manmade items on the bottom, based on the regions where there were absences of detectable echo amplitudes (shadows)<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1979, in hopes of a technological solution to the problems of surveying in "floating mud", the Director of the National Ocean Survey (NOS) established a NOS study team to conduct investigations to determine the functional specifications for a replacement shallow water depth sounder.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The outcome of the study was a class of vertical-beam depth sounders, which is still widely used. It simultaneously pinged at two acoustic frequencies, separated by more than 2 octaves, making depth and echo-amplitude measurements that were concurrent, both spatially and temporally, albeit at a single vertical grazing angle.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (January 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The first MBES generation was dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Seafloor_mapping" class="mw-redirect" title="Seafloor mapping">mapping the seafloor</a> in deep water. Those pioneering MBES made little, or no, explicit use of the amplitudes, as their objective was to obtain accurate measurements of the bathymetry (representing both the peaks and deeps). Furthermore, their technical characteristics did not make it easy to observe spatial variations in the echo amplitudes.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequent to the early MBES bathymetric surveys and at the time when single frequency side scan sonar had begun to produce high quality images of the seabed that were capable of providing a degree of discrimination between different types of sediments, the potential of the echo amplitudes from a MBES was recognized.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With Marty Klein's introduction of dual frequency (nominally 100 kHz and 500 kHz) side scan sonar, it was apparent that spatially and temporally coincident backscatter from any given seabed at those two widely separated acoustic frequencies, would likely provide two separate and unique images of that seascape. Admittedly, the along-track insonification and receiving beam patterns were different, and due to the absence of bathymetric data, the precise backscatter grazing angles were unknown. However, the overlapping sets of side scanning across-track grazing angles at the two frequencies were always the same.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (January 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Following the grounding of the <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_2" title="Queen Elizabeth 2"><i>Queen Elizabeth 2</i></a> off <a href="/wiki/Cape_Cod" title="Cape Cod">Cape Cod</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, in 1992,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the emphasis for shallow water surveying migrated toward full bottom coverage surveys by employing MBES with increasing operating frequencies to further improve the spatial resolution of the soundings. Given that side scan sonar, with its across-track fan-shaped swath of insonification, had successfully exploited the cross-track variation in echo amplitudes, to achieve high quality images of the seabed, it seemed a natural progression that the fan-shaped across-track pattern of insonification associated with the new monotone higher frequency shallow water MBES, might also be exploited for seabed imagery. Images acquired under the initial attempts at MBES bottom imaging were less than stellar, but fortunately improvements were forthcoming. </p><p>Side scan sonar parses the continual echo returns from a receive beam that is perfectly aligned with the insonification beam using time-after-transmit, a technique that is independent of water depth and the cross-track beam opening angle of the sonar receive transducer. The initial attempt at multibeam imagery employed multiple receive beams, which only partially overlapped the MBES fan-shaped insonification beam, to segment the continual echo returns into intervals that were dependent on water depth and receiver cross-track beam opening angle. Consequently, the segmented intervals were non-uniform in both their length of time and time-after-transmit. The backscatter from each ping in each of the beam-parsed segments was reduced to a single value and assigned to the same geographical coordinates as those assigned to that beam's measured sounding. In subsequent modifications to MBES bottom imaging, the echo sequence in each of the beam-parsed intervals was designated as a snippet.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On each ping, each snippet from each beam was additionally parsed according to time-after-transmit. Each of the echo amplitude measurements made within a snippet from a particular beam was assigned a geographical position based on linear interpolation between positions assigned to the soundings measured, on that ping, in the two adjacent cross-track beams. The snippet modification to MBES imagery significantly improved the quality of the imagery by increasing the number of echo amplitude measurements available to be rendered as a pixel in the image and also by having a more uniform spatial distribution of the pixels in the image which represented an actual measured echo amplitude. </p><p>The introduction of multispectral multibeam echosounders<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (January 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> continued the progressive advances in hydrography. In particular, multispectral multibeam echosounders not only provide "multiple look" depth measurements of a seabed, they also provide multispectral backscatter data that are spatially and temporally coincident with those depth measurements. A multispectral multibeam echosounder directly computes a position of origin for each of the backscatter amplitudes in the output data set. Those positions are based on the backscatter measurements themselves and not by interpolation from some other derived data set. Consequently, multispectral multibeam imagery is more acute compared to previous multibeam imagery. The inherent precision of the bathymetric data from a multispectral multibeam echosounder is also a benefit to those users that may be attempting to employ the acoustic backscatter angular response function to discriminate between different sediment types. Multispectral multibeam echosounders reinforces the fact that spatially and temporally coincident backscatter, from any given seabed, at widely separated acoustic frequencies provides separate and unique images of the seascape.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crowdsourcing">Crowdsourcing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydrographic_survey&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Crowdsourcing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Underwater_exploration#Organisations,_programs_and_projects" title="Underwater exploration">Underwater exploration § Organisations, programs and projects</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Crowdsourcing" title="Crowdsourcing">Crowdsourcing</a> also is entering hydrographic surveying, with projects such as <a href="/wiki/OpenSeaMap" title="OpenSeaMap">OpenSeaMap</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.teamsurv.eu">TeamSurv</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201229081738/http://www.teamsurv.eu/">Archived</a> 29 December 2020 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> and ARGUS. Here, volunteer vessels record position, depth, and time data using their standard navigation instruments, and then the data is post-processed to account for speed of sound, tidal, and other corrections. With this approach there is no need for a specific survey vessel, or for professionally qualified surveyors to be on board, as the expertise is in the data processing that occurs once the data is uploaded to the server after the voyage. Apart from obvious cost savings, this also gives a continuous survey of an area, but the drawbacks are time in recruiting observers and getting a high enough density and quality of data. Although sometimes accurate to 0.1 – 0.2m, this approach cannot substitute for a rigorous systematic survey, where this is required. Nevertheless, the results are often adequate for many requirements where high resolution, high accuracy surveys are not required, are unaffordable or simply have not been done yet. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="General_Bathymetric_Chart_of_the_Oceans">General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydrographic_survey&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="excerpt-block"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066933788">.mw-parser-output .excerpt-hat .mw-editsection-like{font-style:normal}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable dablink excerpt-hat selfref">This section is an excerpt from <a href="/wiki/General_Bathymetric_Chart_of_the_Oceans" title="General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans">General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans</a>.<span class="mw-editsection-like plainlinks"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=General_Bathymetric_Chart_of_the_Oceans&action=edit">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><div class="excerpt"> The <a href="/wiki/General_Bathymetric_Chart_of_the_Oceans" title="General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans">General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans</a> (GEBCO) is a publicly available <a href="/wiki/Bathymetric_chart" title="Bathymetric chart">bathymetric chart</a> of the world's <a href="/wiki/Ocean" title="Ocean">oceans</a>. The project was conceived with the aim of preparing a global series of charts showing the general shape of the seafloor. Over the years it has become a reference map of the bathymetry of the world's oceans for scientists and others.</div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_integrated_hydrographic_surveying">Modern integrated hydrographic surveying</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydrographic_survey&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Modern integrated hydrographic surveying"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sonar_operations_by_survey_ship.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Sonar_operations_by_survey_ship.jpg/220px-Sonar_operations_by_survey_ship.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Sonar_operations_by_survey_ship.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="240" /></a><figcaption>Graphic depicting NOAA hydrographic survey ship conducting multibeam and side scan sonar operations</figcaption></figure> <p>In suitable shallow-water areas <a href="/wiki/Lidar" title="Lidar">lidar</a> (light detection and ranging) may be used.<sup id="cite_ref-nhsptxt_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhsptxt-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Equipment can be installed on inflatable craft, such as <a href="/wiki/Zodiac_Group#Zodiac_Boat" class="mw-redirect" title="Zodiac Group">Zodiacs</a>, small craft, <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_underwater_vehicle" title="Autonomous underwater vehicle">autonomous underwater vehicles</a> (AUVs), <a href="/wiki/Unmanned_underwater_vehicle" title="Unmanned underwater vehicle">unmanned underwater vehicles</a> (UUVs), Remote Operated Vehicles (ROV) or large ships, and can include sidescan, single-beam and multibeam equipment.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At one time different data collection methods and standards were used in collecting hydrographic data for maritime safety and for scientific or engineering <a href="/wiki/Bathymetric" class="mw-redirect" title="Bathymetric">bathymetric</a> charts, but increasingly, with the aid of improved collection techniques and computer processing, the data is collected under one standard and extracted for specific use. </p><p>After data is collected, it has to undergo post-processing. A massive amount of data is collected during the typical hydrographic survey, often several soundings per <a href="/wiki/Square_foot" title="Square foot">square foot</a>. Depending on the final use intended for the data (for example, <a href="/wiki/Navigation_chart" class="mw-redirect" title="Navigation chart">navigation charts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Digital_Terrain_Model" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital Terrain Model">Digital Terrain Model</a>, volume calculation for <a href="/wiki/Dredging" title="Dredging">dredging</a>, <a href="/wiki/Topography" title="Topography">topography</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Bathymetry" title="Bathymetry">bathymetry</a>) this data must be thinned out.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (January 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> It must also be corrected for errors (i.e., bad soundings,) and for the effects of <a href="/wiki/Tides" class="mw-redirect" title="Tides">tides</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heave_(translational_motion)" class="mw-redirect" title="Heave (translational motion)">heave</a>, <a href="/wiki/Water_level" title="Water level">water level</a><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Salinity" title="Salinity">salinity</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thermocline" title="Thermocline">thermoclines</a> (water temperature differences) as the velocity of sound varies with temperature and salinity and affects accuracy. Usually the surveyor has additional data collection equipment on site to measure and record the data required for correcting the soundings. The final output of charts can be created with a combination of specialty charting software or a <a href="/wiki/Computer-aided_design" title="Computer-aided design">computer-aided design</a> (CAD) package, usually <a href="/wiki/Autocad" class="mw-redirect" title="Autocad">Autocad</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="ref for usually Autocad (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Although the accuracy of crowd-sourced surveying can rarely reach the standards of traditional methods, the <a href="/wiki/Algorithm" title="Algorithm">algorithms</a> used rely on a high data density to produce final results that are more accurate than single measurements. A comparison of crowd-sourced surveys with multibeam surveys indicates an accuracy of crowd-sourced surveys of around plus or minus 0.1 to 0.2 meter (about 4 to 8 inches).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydrographic_survey&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bathymetry" title="Bathymetry">Bathymetry</a> – Study of underwater depth of lake or ocean floors <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bathymetric_chart" title="Bathymetric chart">Bathymetric chart</a> – Map depicting the submerged terrain of bodies of water</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Echo_sounding" title="Echo sounding">Echo sounding</a> – Measuring the depth of water by transmitting sound waves into water and timing the return</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hydrography" title="Hydrography">Hydrography</a> – Measurement of bodies of water</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Irrigation_Congress" title="National Irrigation Congress">National Irrigation Congress</a> – Agricultural pressure group</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Ocean_Service" title="National Ocean Service">National Ocean Service</a> – U.S. government agency; successor to the National Ocean Survey<span style="display:none" class="category-wikidata-fallback-annotation">Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Office_of_Coast_Survey" title="Office of Coast Survey">Office of Coast Survey</a> – Chartmaker of the United States of America</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Offshore_survey" class="mw-redirect" title="Offshore survey">Offshore survey</a> – Discipline of hydrographic survey largely concerned with the oil industry</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radio_acoustic_ranging" title="Radio acoustic ranging">Radio acoustic ranging</a> – Method of accurately determining a ship's position</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Survey_vessel" title="Survey vessel">Survey vessel</a> – Type of research vessel</li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._National_Geodetic_Survey" title="U.S. National Geodetic Survey">U.S. National Geodetic Survey</a> – U.S. federal surveying and mapping agency</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Coast_and_Geodetic_Survey" title="United States Coast and Geodetic Survey">United States Coast and Geodetic Survey</a> – Former U.S. government scientific agency</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hydrographic_survey&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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