Following the crowd

2017-02-10T16:07:00

A plot of the recorded data for the Channel Island sea area

Can crowd-sourced bathymetry improve our charts and reduce the cost of surveying? This new data resource appears to be gaining legitimacy in the upper echelons of the hydrographic organisations and one of the main providers is UK-headquartered geo-survey research and development group, TeamSurv.

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