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Overview of Tides and Tides Support for Hydrographic Surveying Annual Hydrographic Training Class February 10 th , 2009. Presented by: Craig Martin, Hydrographic Planning Team Lijuan Huang, Hydrographic Planning Team NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services.
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Overview of Tides and Tides Support for Hydrographic Surveying Annual Hydrographic Training ClassFebruary 10th, 2009 Presented by: Craig Martin, Hydrographic Planning Team Lijuan Huang, Hydrographic Planning Team NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
Training Course Schedule • 9:00 – 9:15 am : Course and Personnel Introductions • 9:15 – 10:00 am : Basic Descriptive Tidal Theory • Tide Producing Forces • Tidal Characteristics and Variations • Co-Tidal Maps • Harmonic Analysis and Tidal Prediction • 10:00– 10:15 am : Break • 10:15am – 11:30 am : Tide and Water Level Datums Overview • Definitions • Tidal Datum Computation Methodology • Great Lakes Datums / Non-Tidal Datums • Geodetic Datums and Relationships to Tidal Datums • Tide and Water level Datum Applications
Training Course Schedule • 11:30– 12:30 pm : Lunch • 12: 30 pm – 1:30 pm: Overview of The Hydrographic Survey Support Pipeline • Project Planning and Requirements • Error Budgets • Tide Station Selection and Preliminary Tidal Zoning • Water Level Station Installation, Operation, and Removal • Data Quality Control and Processing • Generation of Water Level Reducers and Final Tidal Zoning • 1:30 – 2:15 pm : Example Hydrographic Surveys • From Planning through Final Products • Gulf Coast Example • East Coast Example • 2:15 – 2:30 pm : Break
Training Course Schedule • 2:30 – 3:30pm : Tidal Zoning and TCARI Overview • Basic Concepts • Construction of Co-Tidal Maps and Tidal Zoning Schemes • Preliminary and Final Zoning • TCARI Grid Creation and Solutions explanation • Error Analysis • 3: 30 pm – 4:00 pm: Emerging Technologies • GPS Tide Buoy • New Water Level Sensor Technology • VDATUM • 4:00 – 4:30 pm : Individual Questions / Comments - Adjourn