Welcome!
The Open Source Hydro (OSHydro) is an initiative foster collaboration and open source software development within the hydrographic surveying and ocean mapping community.
Rationale
Several challenges are being faced by the hydrographic community:
- Reproducibility: a fragmentation of software tools that act like black boxes making most products effectively unreproducible.
- Big Data: survey datasets are quickly growing in size and traditional software tools can’t handle them.
- Artificial Intelligence: a growing gap between the technological sophistication of industry solutions (high) and open-source solutions (low).
OSHydro aims to mitigate these challenges providing an open and collaborative environment.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to facilitate the creation of an ecosystem of open hydrographic algorithms and tools that the next generation of hydrographers and ocean mappers can benefit from. These solutions must be scalable in order to meet the current and future challenges of big data, and they should follow the cutting edge of research development.
Get Involved
The OSHydro initiative is completely open to involvement from anyone with interest. For more information, contact the facilitators.
This page provides links and information about relevant projects. Feel free to edit the page on GitHub adding your projects.
For discussions and announcements related to the OSHydro initiative, join the Google Group.
Initiative Facilitators
- Damian Manda (NOAA Office of Coast Survey)
- Giuseppe Masetti (Danish Geodata Agency)
- Jose Cordero (Instituto Hidrográfico de la Marina)
- Christos Kastrisios (UNH Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping)