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1985: Vol. LXII, No. 2

Toward Improved Accuracy Standards for Hydrographic Surveying

Submitted
July 31, 2015
Published
2015-07-20

Abstract

During a routine review of hydrographic procedures, we became aware that the hydrographic survey standards published by the IHO [1] and our own agency [2] are not stated in terms of statistical parameters as is the case in most sciences, e.g. in geodesy. Digging a little deeper, though not exhaustively, we found that some of the published standards are either ambiguous, unrealistic, or not definitive. This is true for both depth and horizontal positioning standards.