Hydrographic and Oceanographic Measurements
What are hydrographic measurements?
The purpose of hydrography is to map the underwater topography. It deals with the entire information chain from collecting data underwater to making maps. The question that hydrography measurements can answer can be defined as “What does the bottom of the sea and water areas look like and what is in it?”
What are oceanographic measurements?
Oceanography deals with the dynamic mechanisms of the water column and its physical and chemical properties. Current speed and direction, wave climate, tides, water levels and water quality are the subjects studied by oceanography. Oceanographic measurements are the primary method of obtaining these basic data.
