Elements and Performance Criteria
- Use LiDAR for data collection and analysis
- Analyse the environmental and operational environments in which bathymetric LiDAR surveys are complementary to echo sounder surveys
- Use appropriate hydrographic equipment to gather data for survey
- Extract high and low water lines from LiDAR data sets
- Use computer aided design (CAD) to graphically represent data sets
- Determine the level of turbidity using appropriate equipment
- Use remotely sensed data
- Create a shoreline map from images and aerial photographs using geometrical properties
- Analyse the optical characteristics of coastal terrain and floors
- Analyse methods of bottom detection in forming a hydrographic survey
- Analyse remote sensing techniques according to workplace procedures