Bathymetry Course
Gain mastery in harbour bathymetry from initial survey planning right through to finished charts. You will learn about sensors, tides, sound speed adjustments, quality control, and uncertainty measures to create precise seafloor maps. These skills support safe navigation, dredging operations, and coastal development projects in fields like geography and geology, ensuring reliable data for practical use.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Bathymetry Course offers a hands-on process for planning, collecting, processing, and providing top-notch depth data for harbours and coastlines. You will cover survey planning, choosing sensors, fixing motion and tide effects, managing sound speed, creating grids, quality checks, and uncertainty evaluation, then produce straightforward charts, digital elevation models, reports, and metadata that follow current hydrographic rules and aid safe sailing and coastal work.
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Develop skills
- Harbour survey planning: design effective, rule-following bathymetric survey lines.
- Sensor setup: integrate GNSS, motion sensors, and sonar for accurate depth measurements.
- Data quality process: clean, adjust, and check multibeam and singlebeam depth readings.
- Bathymetric grid creation: produce quality DEMs and contour lines for coastal studies.
- Client-ready products: generate clear harbour charts, reports, and metadata files.
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