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No. 23 (2020)

What is Hydrospatial ?

  • D. Hains
Submitted
October 24, 2022
Published
2020-05-30

Abstract

The Oceans, coastal waters, including rivers and lakes, navigable or not, cover about 70% of our Planet... The definition of Hydrography varies from: “…the science of surveying and charting bodies of waters, such as oceans, seas, lakes and rivers”; and a variation of definitions, to the definition from the International Organization (IHO) in February 2020. In the last decades we have been progressing from “GRAPHIC”… to “DIGITAL”…and SPATIAL. This Article suggests that a new word be adopted to distinguish the past analog hydrographic production chain from the present digital hydrographic data centricity, and especially for the future expansion of the role of hydrography in the world. *NB This Article reflects only the opinion of the Author and H2i.