Bathymetry Course
Gain expertise in harbour bathymetry, covering everything from survey design to finished charts. Master sensors, tide adjustments, sound speed management, quality control, and uncertainty analysis to create reliable seafloor maps. These skills support safe navigation, dredging operations, and coastal initiatives in geography and geology fields.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
This course provides a hands-on process for planning, collecting, processing, and producing top-quality depth data for harbours and coastlines. You will master survey planning, choosing sensors, correcting for motion and tides, managing sound speed, gridding data, quality checks, and uncertainty evaluation. Transform your findings into precise charts, digital elevation models, reports, and metadata that align with current hydrographic requirements and aid safe navigation plus coastal developments.
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Develop skills
- Design efficient harbour surveys that meet standards for bathymetric lines.
- Integrate GNSS, motion sensors, and sonar for accurate depth measurements.
- Implement data quality workflows to clean, correct, and verify soundings.
- Create high-quality bathymetric grids, DEMs, and contours for analysis.
- Produce client-ready charts, reports, and metadata for harbours.
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