# Ping360 Bathymetry mapping options

**URL:** <https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/ping360-bathymetry-mapping-options/13102>\
**Category:** Ping Sonar Devices\
**Tags:** sonar, ping360, mapping\
**Created:** [October 25, 2022, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/ping360-bathymetry-mapping-options/13102 "2022-10-25T19:08:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![EliotBR](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.bluerobotics.com/eliotbr/32/6937_2.png) [@EliotBR](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/u/EliotBR)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/ping360-bathymetry-mapping-options/13102/2 "2022-10-27T01:40:33Z")

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Hi @cgandarillas, welcome to the forum! 🙂

> [@cgandarillas](#):
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> The Ping360 seems like a great option for navigating in low-visibility conditions, however, we’d like to know if it has any bathymetry capabilities.

That depends a bit on what you mean. The Ping360 does not do any data processing or object recognition / distance estimation, so bathymetry is not built in functionality.

That said, Ping Viewer logs the data, so if you have a positioning sensor/estimate and are willing to align and process the data yourself, it’s potentially possible to get spatial data from that, although there’d be some development required to do so. [This thread](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/retrieve-ping-sonar-data-for-analysis/11795) may be a helpful start, if that’s a path you wish to go down 🙂

> [@cgandarillas](#):
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> One of our objectives is to be able to use imaging to combine with UAV photogrammetry data to determine water levels and volume at sites before and after any construction.

Cool project! 😃

If you’re doing the photogrammetry yourselves then it may be possible to use a SLAM approach to combine the vehicle’s telemetry with the photogrammetry camera pose estimates to estimate the position over time, without necessarily requiring a positioning sensor (assuming you’re not already using one).

> **EDIT:** I read UAV as AUV - it’s possible you’re not already doing photogrammetry with the underwater component, in which case some form of [positioning sensor](https://docs.bluerobotics.com/ardusub-zola/hardware/additional/positioning-sensors/) would be required.

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