Ocean Mapping Strategy
This online engineering PDH course introduces the U.S. ocean mapping strategy, hydrographic surveying, and modern seafloor mapping technologies that support safe marine navigation and maritime infrastructure planning.
This course highlights the role of NOAA Office of Coast Survey in leading national efforts to map and characterize the seafloor and coordinate hydrographic surveying activities across U.S. waters.
This course explains the purpose and importance of ocean mapping in supporting safe navigation, port operations, and the U.S. marine transportation system. It also describes how seafloor data are collected using survey vessels, small boats, autonomous systems, and collaborative partnerships among federal, state, academic, and private sector organizations.
In addition, this course introduces modern hydrographic technologies, including high-resolution bathymetry and precision marine navigation, and discusses the legal mandates, institutional responsibilities, and international standards governing hydrographic surveying and nautical chart production.
This 2 PDH online course is applicable to engineers, surveyors, hydrographers, maritime professionals, and coastal planners seeking a foundational understanding of U.S. ocean mapping and its role in supporting safe and efficient maritime operations.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the scope, importance, and strategic goals of U.S. ocean mapping and its role in national maritime activities.
- Explaining how Coast Survey leads seafloor mapping in the United States using ships, small boats, autonomous systems, and collaborative partnerships.
- Describing the legal mandates, institutional responsibilities, and international standards that govern hydrographic surveying and nautical chart production in U.S. waters.
- Explaining the role of hydrographic surveying and ocean mapping in supporting safe marine navigation and the U.S. marine transportation system.
- Analyzing navigation challenges associated with modern vessel dimensions, port operations, and limited underkeel clearance in major navigation channels.
- Evaluating high-resolution bathymetric data, precision marine navigation, and modern hydrographic technologies improve navigation safety and port efficiency.
- Understanding the value of federal, state, academic, and private sector partnerships in expanding national seafloor mapping coverage.
- Applying risk-based hydrographic survey planning and national bathymetric data integration approaches, including the Hydrographic Health Model and the National Bathymetric Source.
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, “Ocean Mapping Strategy”, which is based on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), “Mapping U.S. Marine and Great Lakes Waters: Office of Coast Survey Contributions to a National Ocean Mapping Strategy”.
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of ten (10) questions to earn 2 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.
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