Contributing

Welcome

The Ocean Mapping Community Wiki is a public resource that will serve students, technicians, and scientists on ships all over the globe - and benefit from their contributions. It is intended to augment other platforms for sharing best practices across the ocean science community.

To ensure the accuracy and utility of content, contributors must be first verified by the Admins prior to adding content. We encourage community members with relevant experience and expertise to become Contributors. The Admins will also monitor new content for accuracy.

Contribution Guidelines

The Contribution Guidelines provide details on how to add and edit content.

[These sections may be restored as wiki articles, pending discussion / user feedback!]

Wish list

The topics below are high priority for development; some may have placeholders or suggestions for content.

Sections can start small and snowball, so reach out if you'd like to contribute!

1. Recommendations for backscatter processing: tips, tricks, workflows, processing guides...
2. Bathymetry processing - what's on your mind?
   1. Guidelines for gridding approaches / expectations for data quality
   2. When to worry about IHO compliance / relevance
   3. Approaches for 'fixing' 'bad data'
3. Expanding the GitHub Issues base with troubleshooting examples from more users
4. Multibeam data acquisition recommendations
   1. Synchronization - when is it needed?
      1. Grid chart of system combinations, color-coded by interference (present / not present / uncertain)
5. Water column mapping resources
   1. Target strength (sphere) calibration guides
      1. When, why, and how to do these?
      2. Table of spheres required for each frequency range
6. Amazing data examples!
   1. Every page --> highlight exciting data examples / new and unexpected uses for mapping systems
7. Recommendations on how to improve the wiki workflow
   1. What are the roadblocks to accessing / requesting / contributing helpful information?
8. GitHub experts - reach out with recommendations on how to better use this space!

Support

Helpful resources from GitHub and others:

1. Writing on GitHub
2. Using wikis
3. Markdown cheatsheet
4. Using GitHub Issues for troubleshooting
5. Resizing images in articles
6. Add other resources you like!

Users

Admins

Please contact us at omcadmin@ccom.unh.edu to provide feedback or become a contributor.

For specific inquiries, contact the Admins at:

• Kevin Jerram, UNH CCOM-JHC, Multibeam Advisory Committee
• Shannon Hoy, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research
• Colleen Peters, Kongsberg Discovery

Contributors

Please list your name, affiliation and any specialty topics that serve as a particular field of expertise. Please also note if you are a moderator of a particular page/article/topic.

[NOTE: in development; may be reformatted to a table, etc.]

• Vicki Ferrini, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University, Multibeam Advisory Committee
• Paul Johnson, UNH CCOM-JHC, Multibeam Advisory Committee
• Erin Heffron, Ocean Mapping Services
• Thomas Morrow, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research
• Lindsay Gee
• Kate von Krusenstiern