MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S031
IHO Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry (DCDB)
Discover marine observations available through IHO Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry (DCDB), including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- IHO / NOAA NCEI
- Role
- Raw/processed bathymetric sounding archive
- Platforms
- Hydrographic/oceanographic/industry vessels; crowdsourced vessels
- Observed variables
- Single-beam; multibeam; crowdsourced bathymetry soundings
- Spatial coverage
- Global
- Period
- Survey-dependent; decades of contributed data
- Depth coverage
- Seafloor depth
- QC and data mode
- Provider/archive dependent; often relatively raw
- Access method
- Use DCDB Viewer or CSB Data Extract API for bbox subset; AWS S3 for contributed CSB files; Crowbar for metadata
- Indexed download targets
- 1
Canonical parameters
- Measured bathymetric sounding
bathymetric_sounding_depth
Discovery and access
For existence queries, CSB API fields already include lon/lat/depth/time/platform/file identifier.