Table 1.

Key entries in the provider contribution form for uploading bathymetric data.

Dataset name	The name of the dataset. This could be, for example, the vessel name, cruise name or number, the survey location, or other identifying information.
Data category (TID)	GEBCO type identifier code (TID), for example, multibeam, single beam. Table 2 shows the list of categories.
Acquisition organisation	Organisation(s) that collected or owns the data.
Coordinate system	The dataset coordinate system, provided by an EPSG code.
Priority	Determines which dataset to use in the case of overlapping data in the same grid cell through its quality or TID code.
Contact information	Name, Email, Organisation.
Personal information consent/Data consent/Authority consent	Consent that information about the provider can be stored in our database in AWS, consent that the data can be used in IBCAO, GEBCO and IBCSO, and that the provider has the authority to provide the data.
DCDB consent	Consent to provide the uploaded data to the IHO Data Center for Digital Bathymetry (IHO/DCDB), where the individual datasets can be downloaded. (IBCAO is not a repository for the provided bathymetric datasets, and does not distribute them further).