COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops.
This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview on the Introduction to Hydrography: Principles and Applications. It covers the scope of hydrography and its importance in petroleum exploration; the purpose of hydrographic surveys including hydrographic survey standards and regulations; the geodesy and coordinate systems in hydrography; the fundamentals and data acquisition of bathymetry; the hydrographic data quality control and management; and the hydrographic survey platforms.
Further, the course will also discuss the bathymetric survey techniques; the tides and water levels in hydrography; the positioning and navigation in hydrography and sonar and acoustic systems; integrating remote sensing in hydrography; the data acquisition and pre-processing as well as bathymetric data processing and visualization; the seabed classification, sediment analysis, hydrographic charting and nautical mapping; and the error analysis, data correction techniques.
During this interactive course, participants will learn the role of hydrography in offshore drilling; the seabed mapping for pipeline routing and platform installation; the underwater infrastructure inspection and maintenance; the coastal and marine environmental monitoring; the hydrographic risk assessment for offshore operations; and the hydrographic surveying for port and harbor development through depth measurement and dredging planning as well as navigational safety and ship channel maintenance.