Crowd Depth

Collect and share depth data from your marine vessel with crowd-sourced bathymetry programs.

What's here

• Signal K Plugin – collects your depth + position and periodically reports to the API.
• API – a minimal web service for receiving bathymetry reports, storing them, and forwarding them NOAA.

Frequently Asked Questions

What data is collected?

The Signal K plugin collects depth (environment.depth.*), GPS position (navigation.position), and the current timestamp. You can chose to include your vessel's name and MMSI, or share that data anonymously—which will use a randomly generated UUID.

How do I access the data?

NOAA publishes crowdsourced bathymetry through a data archive and a web viewer.

All data collected by this plugin will be publicly available soon.

What license is applied to the data?

All collected data is licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal.

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See NOAA's Crowdsourced Bathymetry Frequently Asked Questions for more.

Contributing

• Install deps: npm install
• Run tests: npm test
• Build all packages: npm run build
• Run the API locally (defaults to http://localhost:3001): npm start

Resources

• IHO Guidance to Crowdsourced Bathymetry
• Guidance for Submitting Crowdsourced Bathymetry Data
• Crowdsourced Bathymetry File Formats for Submission to the IHO Data Center for Digital Bathymetry
• Workshop on Crowdsourced Bathemtry (2024)
• IHO Crowdsourced Bathymetry Trusted Node Agreement
• Crowdsourced Bathymetry Provider Dashboard