About OpenSSDM

OpenSSDM is an implementation of the International Oil and Gas Producers Association (IOGP) Seabed Survey Data Model (SSDM v2), built entirely outside the ESRI ecosystem using open source components. It ingests geophysical and geotechnical survey deliverables - shapefiles, geodatabases, rasters, AGS logs - into a PostGIS schema faithful to the SeabedML specification, with full code list support and IOGP 462-02 mandatory class compliance checking. The web interface provides ingest wizards, interactive review maps with bathymetry terrain draping, feature validation workflows, and survey management - replacing the File Geodatabase template with a modern, queryable, standards-compliant database accessible to any GIS client.

Acknowledgements

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026

Contains Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) data © Crown Copyright 2026

Contains United Kingdom Hydrographic Office data © Crown copyright and database right. Terms of Use

The data set must not be used for navigation or to create products that could be used for navigation.

Contains information provided by the North Sea Transition Authority and/or other third parties.

Contains data supplied by Natural Environment Research Council.

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Database & Spatial

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