Contributing

Welcome
The Ocean Mapping Community Wiki is a public resource that will serve students, technicians, and scientists on ships all over the globe - and benefit from their contributions. It is intended to augment other platforms for sharing best practices across the ocean science community.

We encourage community members with relevant experience and expertise to become Contributors by making an account. This helps the community to ensure the utility and accuracy of new content, as well as automatically track changes and give credit for your contributions. The Admins will monitor and address any improper use of this platform.

Guidelines
The Contribution Guidelines provide details on how to add and edit content.

NOTE: These sections may be restored as wiki articles, pending discussion / user feedback! Links in red indicate existing GitHub content that can be migrated as new pages on this platform.

Wish list
The topics below are high priority for development; some may have placeholders or suggestions for content.

Sections can start small and snowball, so reach out if you'd like to contribute!


 * 1) Recommendations for Backscatter Processing - tips, tricks, workflows, processing guides...
 * 2) Bathymetry Processing - what's on your mind?
 * 3) Guidelines for gridding approaches / expectations for data quality
 * 4) When to worry about IHO compliance / relevance
 * 5) Approaches for 'fixing' 'bad data'
 * 6) Expanding the Issues base with Troubleshooting examples from more users
 * 7) Data Acquisition recommendations
 * 8) Synchronization - when is it needed?
 * 9) Grid chart of system combinations, color-coded by interference (present / not present / uncertain)
 * 10) Water Column Mapping resources
 * 11) Target strength (sphere) calibration guides
 * 12) When, why, and how to do these?
 * 13) Table of spheres required for each frequency range
 * 14) Guidance on reducing bubbles and vessel noise
 * 15) Gondolas, bulbous bows, and modeling
 * 16) Machinery placement and vibration reduction
 * 17) Electrical / EMF isolation and cable routing
 * 18) Amazing data examples!
 * 19) Every page --> highlight exciting data examples / new and unexpected uses for mapping systems
 * 20) Recommendations on how to improve the wiki workflow
 * 21) What are the roadblocks to accessing / requesting / contributing helpful information?
 * 22) WikiMedia experts - reach out with recommendations on how to better use this space!

Support
Helpful resources for MediaWiki syntax and the WikiForge platform:
 * 1) MediaWiki cheatsheet
 * 2) Using GitHub Issues for troubleshooting until similar issue tracking features are available here
 * 3) Managing images in articles
 * 4) Easily convert GitHub-flavored markdown .md files to wikitext for migration to MediaWiki
 * 5) Add other resources you like!

Admins
Please contact us at [mailto:omcadmin@ccom.unh.edu omcadmin@ccom.unh.edu] to provide feedback or become a contributor.

For specific inquiries, contact the Admins at:
 * [mailto:mac-help@unols.org K. Jerram, P. Johnson, V. Ferrini] - Multibeam Advisory Committee
 * [mailto:shannon.hoy@noaa.gov Shannon Hoy] - NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research
 * [mailto:colleen.peters@km.kongsberg.com Colleen Peters] - Kongsberg Discovery

Contributors
Please list your name, affiliation and any specialty topics that serve as a particular field of expertise. Please also note if you are a moderator of a particular page/article/topic.

[NOTE: in development; may be reformatted to a table, etc.]
 * Kevin Jerram, UNH CCOM-JHC, Multibeam Advisory Committee
 * Vicki Ferrini, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University, Multibeam Advisory Committee
 * Paul Johnson, UNH CCOM-JHC, Multibeam Advisory Committee
 * Erin Heffron, Ocean Mapping Services
 * Thomas Morrow, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research
 * Kate Von Krusenstiern, OceanX